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Irish Soar Past Falcons

GarbagePlate follows up on his pre-game take by reviewing the Fighting Irish’s performance against Air Force. Air Force may have an impressive fleet of aircraft and weaponry, but the Cadets were rendered helpless yesterday by an Irish aerial attack led by Notre Dame quarterback Tommy Rees and his vast fleet of able receivers. Rees (17-22,…

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Wonder, Think and Know: Bagged Bird Edition

Mike Royko would never take two months off from writing a column, but even if he had, he’d never say, “Some things you wonder, some things you think, and some things you just know” in response to queries why. This is what blowouts under Brian Kelly are going to look like — loads of passing…

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Wynn: Schedule Will Help Irish Get Healthy

Former Notre Dame All-American Renaldo Wynn talks to the ACC network about his satisfaction over ND’s defeat of USC and how the team is fortunate to be reaching a “lull” in the schedule just at the time they need some of the softer games to get themselves healthy and ready for the home stretch (and…

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There’s Marketing, and then there’s Marketing

I’m taking a break from linking the headlines this morning to bring you this rant. And yes, a rant it will indeed be. As I was going through the UND main page, I came across this article about the recently-released GSR results. Let me be clear I think graduating our student athletes is critically important…

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Irish Look to Keep Falcons Grounded

While John Vannie recovers from his surgery, we’ll be featuring some guest journalists for the pre- and post-game writeups. This week, we’ve got long-time poster GarbagePlate taking a stab at the Falcons of the Air Force Academy. Fresh off a hard fought victory over archrival USC, Notre Dame (5-2) heads to the Rockies this weekend…

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