Thirty-seven wins entered the dome back in April. Those wins represented the biggest Notre Dame men’s basketball program had achieved in the sport’s modern era. When I seeded the wins originally, I kinda figured two of them would stand above the rest. Your votes have confirmed my position, and today we will select between those…
For those unfamiliar with the term, a tournament is said to be “chalk” when the favorites win. It goes back to horse racing, so I guess you can watch “The Sting” if you want to get a feel for it. Regardless, it’s an apt term for how this final week of the Big Win Tournament…
Back on April 13th, we kicked off the Tournament of Big ND Men’s Basketball wins. 37 of the most meaningful victories in ND men’s basketball history were seeded, and your votes determined which survived each week. Today, we kick off the final week of the tournament, and reveal Seeds #2 through #8. Those Super Seven,…
Mike Royko never said, “Some things you wonder, some things you think, and some things you just know”. He might have said some of the unprintable things I said while watching the game, though. Probably while watching Cubs games. I’ve never seen two teams work harder to give each other the game. Final score notwithstanding,…
The First Big Test for Notre Dame football this season is over and done, and looks like there’ll be a pop quiz before the Midterm Exam on the 18th. But there’s no intellectual rest for the Irish Blogger Gathering, so we plow on kicking ass and taking names. My question will be in its usual…