Like most of you, the announcement yesterday of potential expansion / upgrade plans for Notre Dame Stadium caught me a bit by surprise. Given the efforts of our own NDRoman21 to do the same thing, it certainly wasn’t a foreign concept, but the desire to do something concrete certainly came out of the blue. There’s…
The folks who put together the Irish Blogger Gathering were kind enough to invite me to participate for the upcoming season, and I thank them and will do so with gusto. I got the opportunity to ask five … er, three questions of Keith Arnold over at Inside the Irish, who provided his responses below….
I’ve lived in the Chicagoland area for most of my life, and the lessons of my sports formative years not imparted by Notre Dame came from there. Growing up, I watched Walter Payton run for the Bears, Carlton Fisk catch for the Sox, and Denis Savard and Jeremy Roenick skate for the Hawks. I’m led…
I know, the late great Mike Royko never said “some things you wonder, some things you think, and some things you just know”, Bernie Lincicome did. I still don’t have a new name for the column, but if you think I’m letting five overtimes go by without commentary, you’re nuts. By the way, that was…
Apparently, the late great Mike Royko never said “some things you wonder, some things you think, and some things you just know”. But until I figure out something new to call this column, we’re going to pretend he did. This is the first hoops game I’ve been able to see in person this season, which…