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March Madness® is right around the corner and the Fighting Irish are right in the running to make a run in the NCAA Tournament.  Notre Dame is currently projected by ESPN as the 6th seed in the west region, and the Irish women appear to be headed to the Final Four. For hockey fans, Notre Dame…

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The Rock Report: ND and the “Football Arms Race”

Given that the NCAA has taken the reins off recruiting to a great extent, schools will have to make some choices about how they’re going to compete in the new wild west.  Responses vary, the Big 10 is very concerned about the new rules  B10 ADs, Coaches Worry About Easing Recruit Rules reigning champion Alabama…

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Closing the ‘Bama Gap

This may be Brian Kelly’s best class at Notre Dame. That may not be good enough.  Notre Dame was likely the second best team in the country last year, but second may as well have been 10th given the evident gap the country saw on January 7th.  As good as this year was relative to…

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Irish Celebrate Recruiting Success

Notre Dame closed out its recruiting efforts for the Class of 2017 on Wednesday with the signing of highly regarded defensive lineman Eddie Vanderdoes from Placer, California. The 24th and final member of the group added an exclamation point to what is projected to be the best collection of Irish immigrants since 1990. This balanced…

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The Deadspinning of Manti Te’o

Deadspinning: “Irresponsible journalists acting on small pieces of a story that they don’t yet fully understand who rush to condemn a person who was put through an emotional wringer over many months, assign him nefarious motives and pontificate about the University that rightly defended him.” The victims in the Manti Te’o story were people who…

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