Congressional Domers -- All Survive...

The four University of Notre Dame alums in the United States Congress -- all survived their re-election bids last night; Peter King (New York), Joe Donnelly (Indiana), Dan Lungren (California) and Peter Visclosky (Indiana).  Incumbents winning wasn't the norm last night as 51 of their colleagues were defeated.  Here are links to stories on each of their victories:

LINK:  PETER KING '68 -- VICTORY

LINK:  JOE DONNELLY '77 & '81 -- VICTORY

LINK:  DAN LUNGREN '68 -- VICTORY

LINK:  PETER VISCLOSKY '73 -- VICTORY

Watch the Lady Irish Basketball Team @ 7 PM

The University of Notre Dame's women's basketball team tips off the 2010-2011 season tonight with an exhibition game against Division II power, Michigan Tech University.  The game starts at 7 PM EST and the gang at UND.COM will be broadcasting it live on the web.  Muffet McGraw's Irish are ranked 12th in the AP pre-season poll -- here's a link to the broadcast:

LINK:  WATCH THE IRISH AT 7 PM EST 

The Streak Ends at 100...

The University of Notre Dame's women's soccer team experienced something on Sunday afternoon that they've grown quite unaccustomed to:  a defeat.  The Fighting Irish saw two significant streaks come to an end in their 2-0 loss to UCONN -- a 77 game conference win streak (a NCAA Division 1 record) and a 100 game "home field" conference win streak -- a fifteen year-old record!  The 3rd ranked Irish, now await  the NCAA's announcement of the 64 team field in the Women's 2010 NCAA Soccer Championship on Monday, November 8th at 4:30 PM EST.  Here's a link to Gameday Central for the Women's Soccer team:

LINK:  ND WOMEN'S SOCCER -- GAMEDAY