NDGIB: The 62nd Largest City in America!

At 9:16 PM ET this evening -- a Notre Dame fan from Chicago, IL became UNIQUE "RESIDENT" #300,000 here at the ND GO IRISH BLOG!

To put this in perspective -- there are only 61 cities in the USA who have a population of more than 300,000.

Here's a list of the next five largest "population centers" in America:

1. Santa Ana, CA -- 324,538
2. St. Louis, MO -- 319,924
3. Pittsburgh, PA -- 305,704
4. Corpus Christi, TX -- 305,215
5. Riverside, CA -- 303,871
6. ND GO IRISH BLOG -- 300,000
7. Cincinnati, OH -- 296,943

Thank you for making the ND GO IRISH BLOG your NOTRE DAME HOMETOWN on the web!

Notre Dame's Fr. Bill Dailey on MSNBC...

The University of Notre Dame's Rev. Bill Dailey, C.S.C., was a guest on MSNBC's Up With Chris Hayes show Sunday morning.

Fr. Bill was asked to weigh in on the "subject of the day" in Washington D.C. -- the Obama administrations proposed "compromise" to force Catholic institutions to offer contraceptive services to employees.

You're going to enjoy Fr. Bill's debate with the folks at MSNBC.

In addition, twenty-five members of the University of Notre Dame faculty -- led by the university’s top ethics expert, and including some of the school’s most eminent scholars -- have signed a statement declaring that President Barack Obama’s latest version of his administration’s mandate that all health insurance plans in the United States must cover sterilizations and all FDA-approved contraceptives, including those that cause abortions, is “a grave violation of religious freedom and cannot stand."

Here's the links:

LINK:  NOTRE DAME ON MSNBC

LINK:  NOTRE DAME STANDS UP TO OBAMA

Mike Brey's Irish Finally Crack the Top 25!

The folks at CBSSPORTS.com came out with their updated Top-25 ranking this morning and the Irish have gone from being unranked to #18 in the country.  The CBS SPORTS poll is the first published each week. Here's a link to their ranking:

LINK:  IRISH RANKED IN TOP 25

Inside Notre Dame Basketball

The gang at Fighting Irish Digital Media are doing a bang-up job this season covering Notre Dame Athletics.  Here's their show Inside Notre Dame Basketball (Jack Nolan & Coach Brey).  Enjoy!

LINK:  INSIDE ND BASKETBALL #9