I had just finished playing a Keenan interhall soccer game when I heard the tragic news. A student had fallen from a video tower while filming football practice. When I got back to my dorm, my rector and a university e-mail confirmed the heartbreaking story. One year ago today, junior Declan Sullivan, a resident of…

For those of you fortunate enough to watch the Irish live and in person on football Saturdays, you might not be aware of all the work that goes into NBC’s television broadcasts of Notre Dame football. While Tom Hammond, Mike Mayock and Alex Flanagan are the faces and voices of the Irish on NBC, producer…

“You’re five-foot nothin’, 100 and nothin’, and you have barely a speck of athletic ability …” Though it is certainly not the case that the Notre Dame football walk-ons have “barely a speck of athletic ability” as Fortune suggested to Rudy, some of them, as is true with fifth-year cornerback Nick Lezynski, do compare to…

Sept. 11, 2001, is forever etched in our memories. A day to our generation what Dec. 7, 1941, and Nov. 22, 1963, were to those before us. None of us will ever forget where we were or who we were with when we heard the tragic news about the terrorist attacks on our country. Ten…

If you were on campus for the season opener, I understand that the outcome of the game might have spoiled your memory of the new player walk to the stadium. Notre Dame football weekends are about much more than the result on the scoreboard, but I recognize the fact that an Irish loss can negatively…