Saturday, August 14, 2010

Coach Kelly Media Session: After Practice

University of Notre Dame Football Coach, Brian Kelly, spent six minutes yesterday taking questions from the assembled media. Topics; health of Mike Ragone, status of EJ Banks, QB depth chart, practicing in the heat and Steve Filer's "skateboarding." Click on the link below and scroll to the right side of the page and click on Coach Kelly August 13th:

COACH KELLY MEDIA SESSION

Irish Basketball to Play in Hoosier Classic!








A press conference is scheduled for this Monday in Indianapolis, where it's expected that the University of Notre Dame, Indiana University, Purdue University and Butler University will announce they're going to play a doubleheader at Conseco Fieldhouse this season. Rumor has it that the four coaches will be at the event, and there will be a "blind draw" to determine who plays who to determine college basketball supremacy in the Hoosier state! Though I don't suspect an Indiana vs. Purdue matchup is feasible (?) since they're probably already on each others Big Ten schedule. Here are links to the websites of each of these college basketball programs:

UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME BASKETBALL

BUTLER UNIVERSITY BASKETBALL

INDIANA UNIVERSITY BASKETBALL

PURDUE UNIVERSITY BASKETBALL

ND Student Wins Princess Grace Award

University of Notre Dame student, Javi Zubizarreta, a Film, Television and Theatre major -- won the 2010 Princess Grace Award from the Princess Grace Foundation (PGF). And, he also won the Cary Grant Film Award from the PGF - which is only awarded to one filmmaker each year. Zubizarreta will receive the awards in New York City in November at the annual black-tie Princess Grace Awards Gala. Javi (Boise, ID) will be a senior this fall at Notre Dame and he's the only underclassmen student of the six filmmakers receiving awards this year. Zubizarreta intends to use the grant he receives from PGF to produce a "soulful" film about an old and young Basque shepherd. Javi is a third-generation Basque-American (Basque is a region of northern Spain). Congratulations Javi! Here's a link to the Princess Grace Foundation website and their announcement of the award winners:

PRINCESS GRACE FOUNDATION -- 2010 AWARD WINNERS