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The NFL Draft is less than a month away, and on Tuesday, 14 former Irish players returned to campus to take part in Notre Dame’s annual Pro Day. After physical measurements, vertical and broad jump and the bench press test in the weight room, the Irish players headed to the Loftus Sports Center where representatives…
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If you’re like me, most of your weekend was spent watching college hoops and marveling at the greatness that is Florida Gulf Coast University (Fun fact: The Eagles AD, Ken Kavanaugh is a Notre Dame MBA grad.) While March Madness can provide plenty of excitement as we await the start of spring (or at least…
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Everyone knows mid-March as the best time of the year for college basketball junkies, but it’s an exciting week for football fans too. Head coach Brian Kelly began Notre Dame football’s spring ball with a press conference on Tuesday afternoon at the Guglielmino Athletics Complex. On Wednesday, the Irish hit the field at the Loftus…
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Champions are made in the offseason… as it is often said. The offseason, however, is about so much more than improving on the practice field and in the weight room. It’s a time for programs to instill values (such as last year’s “A-Team” philosophy) and perhaps more importantly, for student-athletes to grow in the classroom…
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As we wrote yesterday, the 2013 NFL Scouting Combine is being held this weekend, as some of the nation’s best prospects make their case for April’s NFL Draft. Eight former Irish players will be down in Indianapolis, and you can catch much of the action on the NFL Network and NFL.com. There are four main…
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The 2013 NFL Draft is just over two months away, and this weekend, several former Notre Dame student-athletes will move one step closer to achieving their lifelong dream of playing on Sundays. Eight Irish players were invited to the 2013 NFL Scouting Combine. Workouts begin on Saturday and continue through Tuesday. First round hopefuls linebacker…
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More than 12 hours after it began, National Signing Day 2013 is officially in the books. And what a great day it was for Notre Dame, both at the fax machine and in the Fighting Irish Digital Media studio. As I wrote about previously, FIDM debuted a new virtual set for its broadcast on UND.com.…
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Throughout the 2012 football season, our good friends at the Her Loyal Sons blog put together Twitter summaries of each Notre Dame football game. For many people, being on Twitter has become part of the experience of watching sports, so it should come as no surprise that these summaries became a very popular way of…
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Fighting Irish Digital Media Prepares for National Signing Day
Feb 5, 2013, 7:00 PM EDT
It’s a day when recruiting nuts take the morning off to watch Twitter and read message boards, when diehard football fans anxiously await the hat choice of 17-year-old kids, and it’s the one time per year where we dust off the fax machines to welcome the letters of intent of future All-Americans and team captains.…
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Making his first Pro Bowl appearance in his young NFL career, former Irish tight end Kyle Rudolph took home MVP honors on Sunday night in Hawaii. Rudolph caught five passes for 122 yards and a touchdown in the NFC’s 62-35 win. Not only did the Cincinnati, Ohio native take home a shiny trophy, but he…
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From shaving their heads in The Bald and The Beautiful to visiting the Joe DiMaggio Children’s Hospital, giving back to the community is a defining part of the Notre Dame football program. In this video, Jake Golic, Matthias Farley and Bennett Jackson talk about their experience in a service class run through the university’s Center…
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Last year, Super Bowl XLVI featured a pair of Fighting Irish alums on opposing sides – Sergio Brown (’10) for the New England Patriots and Justin Tuck (’05) of the New York Giants. For the second time in five season, Tuck and the Giants emerged victorious against the favored Patriots. This year, there aren’t any…
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Football student managing is as competitive as any sport. It’s a time-consuming job, but it has plenty of perks, so lots of Notre Dame and Saint Mary’s students vie to get into the program. Approximately 40 students enter the program as freshmen. Depending on which semester they join, they work both fall and spring practices…
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Before last week’s BCS championship game, ESPN aired a feature on Sam Grewe, a 14-year old from Middlebury, Ind. who was adopted by the Notre Dame football team in spring 2012. During Christmas week 2011, he was diagnosed with Osteosarcoma, a cancer in the bone. While preparing for a rare Van Ness rotationplasty, the Irish…
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And I am back, back for one last post to reflect on my journey over the past four years with Notre Dame football. It all started in the basement of Alumni Hall on the first night of freshmen orientation perfecting the lyrics to the fight song, the alma mater and the other Notre Dame cheers.…
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There were 10 Apollo missions before a successful moon landing. J.K. Rowling was rejected by 12 publishers before someone took on her “Harry Potter” series. The Wright Brothers didn’t fly on their first attempt. And we all know Rudy Ruettiger had to try several times to make the Notre Dame football team–after his many attempts…
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And we are back … back to reality, woops there went gravity. As I stood on the field at the end of the game trying to absorb the moment, I couldn’t help but ask myself, why? Why did this season, in which everything else went right, have to end like this? My thoughts lingered as…
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Monday night did not go as planned. Nope, it could not have possibly gone much worse. It hurt. A lot. Manti Te’o walking off with tears in his eyes. Theo Riddick crying in the locker room. Kapron Lewis-Moore being helped off the field after a significant knee injury. Watching the Crimson Tide celebrate their third…
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I don’t want to talk about silver linings or graduation rates. I don’t want to say, “Well, at the end of the day, I still go to a great school.” I’m irritated at the people who are posting that they’re glad they didn’t go to Miami. It hurts. It better hurt. If it didn’t, it…
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129 days ago, Notre Dame began its season in Dublin, Ireland. Four hours from now, the Fighting Irish play for the national championship. It’s been tough to comprehend, and even as I sit here in front of the field, it’s still kind of hard to believe. Tonight is the moment these players and coaches have…
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