Author: Mike Coffey

Mooching Off Continuity

In the middle of a joyous Christmas (and Notre Dame football) season, I got sad news yesterday. An email from a fellow Cavanaugh Hall alumnus told me that Fr. Matt “Mooch” Miceli, our long-time rector and happy curmudgeon, had died peacefully at the age of 89. Like Notre Dame football, Mooch tended to be a…

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Wonder, Think & Know: Vacated Titles Edition

As the late great Mike Royko once said, some things you wonder, some things you think, and some things you just know. Given ND’s history against Kentucky, winning by the third-biggest margin ever against a defending national champion is cause for the good hard liquor to be brought out. Not that run-it-through-the-Britta-five-times stuff. Those uniforms…

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No More Excuses

As we shiver in the cold, we now enter the 40 days of waiting, at the end of which will be a glorious day of resurrection. While it’s not the usual one Catholic folks expect, the 19 years between national title attempts certainly has been more excruciating than the worst Lent I can remember, so…

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Happy Thanksgiving

We here at NDN would like to wish all our users great and small the happiest of Thanksgivings. While we’re thankful for the fantastic season the Fighting Irish are having on the gridiron, we’re even more thankful for the users who make all this possible and who have made said fantastic season all the more…

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