Author: Mike Coffey

Dear Santa

In my house, we grew up with the mantra that anything worth doing was worth doing well. I realize that’s a tough philsophy to defend while reading my blog entries, but let’s file that under suspension of belief and talk about my usual topic, ND basketball. Word out of D.C. is the Board of Trustees…

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Put Down the DaVinci

As promised, I finished reading The DaVinci Code last night. After my early disappointment that Timmy Kovach was not featured, I managed to get through the last page with my sanity and faith still intact. Don’t all sigh with relief at once. I’d like to address what I believe are the three main parts of…

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After Midnight

A man needs a little madness, or else he never dares cut the rope and be free. Nikos Kazantzakis I don’t claim to be a marketing genius — that’s my sister’s job. After all, she’s the one who has to keep friends and respect after telling people she’s related to me. But working in a…

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Fiddling While Hoops Burns

Those of you who follow my writing know I beat the improve-the-physical-plant drum loudly and often. Some of you regard it as some kind of excuse mechanism for Mike Brey, and no amount of explanation has proven able to dissuade you of that idea. So if you are of that camp, you may as well…

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Notes from the Geetar: Lost in the Angst

I’m still trying to figure out how to implement the “NftG” heading in this thing. For now, I’ll use it for compendium-like posts that lack a central theme. Like that doesn’t describe half my work. With all the hand-wringing recently about the need or lack thereof for coaching staff changes and the deplorable state of…

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