Author: Mike Coffey

Ara’s Knights Ride Again

Ara Parseghian’s indelible mark on Notre Dame football has been chronicled multiple times over the years, yet Irish fans never tire of hearing stories from the Era of Ara.  Those fans will get another opportunity to slake their thirst this fall, as Frank Pomarico’s Ara’s Knights: Ara Parseghian and the Golden Era of Notre Dame…

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Help Our HOFer

This weekend, Tim Brown will receive his overdue recognition by the NFL Hall of Fame in Canton, OH, when he and his fellow Irish alum Jerome Bettis are inducted. With good old #81 in the spotlight, we at NDN felt it was time to let you know about an off-the-field endeavor of TB’s just as…

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Back to the Future

Regardless of what the calendar said, I always knew college football season was coming when the preview magazines hit the shelves. If we were up at the lake, I’d duck in to the drugstore to grab them all off the shelf and spend glorious hours pouring over them on the porch. Prior to the days…

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No Niedermeyers Here

Former Irish QB Brady Quinn’s charity, 3rd and Goal, is joining forces with Salute, Inc., to launch a new campaign aimed at providing support for veterans of our armed forces. The campaign, called Drop and Give Me 10, wants to raise $100,000 to give veterans and their families much-needed support. Their methodology is similar to…

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Wonder, Think & Know — Thirteen Percent Edition

Mike Royko never said, “Some things you wonder, some things you think, and some things you just know.” But he probably would have picked the Irish to make the Sweet 16. He was smart like that. Just to give you a little perspective on what you’re seeing right now, Notre Dame started allowing its men’s…

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