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A Snowy Senior Day Win

In the last of our guest-lecturer game reviews, Rocketshark follows up on his pre-game assessment of the Cougars’ clash with the Fighting Irish. John Vannie will return to his usual pontifications next week when Notre Dame travels to Stanford. At one of the coldest home football games in recent memory, the Fighting Irish of Notre…

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Irish Host BYU on Senior Day

Our BYU preview this week is authored by long time NDNation contributor Joe Stachler, who also is known by the handle Rocketshark. The Irish have made a habit of playing close games this year, and Joe tells us why he sees another nail biter on Saturday as well as which team will emerge victorious. Leave…

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IBG: More of the Same

The official word is IBG claims no responsibility for Notre Dame’s poor performance this weekend due to our shakeup of format. That’s good, because God knows there’s plenty of that to go around. Like last week, instead of asking five … er, three questions of one of my fellow bloggers, we each submitted a question…

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IBG: Shaking the Etch-a-Sketch

Just when you thought the academies were in the rear-view, here I am again to intellectually cut-block you via the Irish Blogger Gathering. We’re trying something new to keep it fresh this week. Instead of asking five … er, three questions of one of my fellow bloggers, we each submitted a question to the pool,…

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Wonder, Think and Know: Sinking Their Battleship Edition

Mike Royko never said “Some things you wonder, some things you think, and some things you just know”, but I bet he would have played single-safety yesterday. I’m a well-known adversary to the “television screen in ND Stadium” movement.  But I did find myself wishing there was a way to tell the crowd yesterday to…

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