(The Rock Report) – 2012 will go down as a season with some of the ugliest scores since the 60s. 20-17, 13-6, 20-13(ot), 17-14, 29-26(ot), 22-13… wretchedly ugly when viewed on a schedule, but so, so beautiful when you also see the heart behind the score. During this unbeaten run it seemed as if a…
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Wonder, Think & Know: Just Enough Field Goals Edition
As the late great Mike Royko once said, some things you wonder, some things you think, and some things you just know. And I know I haven’t been this happy about ND football since I was swimming in the pool at the Tempe Embassy Suites in 1989. When the defense carries the team the entire…
Tim Layden’s Lies of Omission and Laziness
(The Rock Report) – It is a shame that in the week before Notre Dame plays its most meaningful game in more than a decade that Notre Dame Nation is confronted with a national story that looks to benefit from personal tragedy and “salacionalize” the truth. After first reading Tim Layden’s Sports Illustrated cover story,…
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…
Irish Become the Hunted at USC
When Notre Dame walked off the field in Norman, Oklahoma after having dismantled the Sooners, most Irish followers quickly figured out that this dream season would come down to the November 24 showdown in Los Angeles against the USC Trojans. Someone forgot to share the script with Pittsburgh, who nearly derailed this improbable resurrection until…