Happy Mother's Day from Notre Dame!

This is a photo of my MOM -- Joan Small, who left for heaven back in 2012.  She was a great Mom to my brother Jay and me.  Boy, did she love Notre Dame...

We miss her -- especially on days like today.

Happy Mother's Day to all of the MOM'S!!!

Kizer in His New #7 Cleveland Browns Jersey

Here's a Sporting News story about Kizer's opening practice with the Browns:

LINK:  SPORTING NEWS

DeShone Kizer Gets Started With Browns

Photos of Rochelle & Onwualu at Rookie Camp

 James Onwualu #49

 Isaac Rochell #98

The former Fighting Irish captains are wearing new colors and new numbers for the Los Angeles Chargers...

LINK:  STORY

MUST READ: A Dad and His Son the Marine...

This is a must read....

LINK:  THE LINE TO MY HEART

Beautiful Sound: Our Lady's Consort

Domer AKA "Mr. Elimination" Scores Big Goal!

Congratulations to the 1,981 fans who correctly predicted that Rust would score first. You geniuses, you. pic.twitter.com/wzKgjy9iD8

— Pittsburgh Penguins (@penguins) May 11, 2017

Former Notre Dame hockey star Bryan Rust -- scored his fifth goal of the NHL Playoffs last night and it was BIG -- as it sent the Pittsburgh Penguins on to the Eastern Conference Finals!

LINK:  PENGUINS

LINK:  PITTSBURGH GAZETTE STORY

LINK:  PLAYOFF STATS FOR RUST

Vikings Agree to Deal With Michael Floyd

The Minnesota Vikings just announced they have signed a one-year deal with Michael Floyd -- here is what is being reported...

LINK:  FLOYD TO VIKINGS

The Highest Paid ND Athlete of All-Time!

And, it's not even close...

YOU READING THIS PAT CONNAUGHTON?

LINK:  JEFF SAMARDZIJA

Steve Beuerlein Interviews Nyles Morgan

Joe Theismann Interviews Josh Adams

ND Law Prof Nominated by President Trump

It's being reported that Amy Coney Barrett, a Notre Dame law professor (and ND Law grad) will be  nominated by President Trump to serve as judge for the United States Courts of Appeals for the 7th Circuit (Chicago).

LINK:  NEW YORK TIMES STORY

LINK:  COURTS OF APPEALS

ND Engineering Students -- Aircraft's 1st Flight

Notre Dame students built this plane from scratch. Here's their Notre Dame Day interview above -- below, is a video of its maiden flight!

CNBC: Domer Picked "Top 10 Business Grad"

Casey Gelchion -- a member of Notre Dame's Class of 2017 was just featured by CNBC one of the TOP TEN BUSINESS GRADS this year!

Congratulations!

LINK:  STORY

Way Too Early Top 25 for Women's Hoops

Muffet's Irish getting some respect...

LINK:  WAY TOO EARLY

ND Men's Hoops -- in CBS Sports Top 15 Poll!

Great to see -- even though we have six months until the season starts!

LINK:  CBS HOOPS POLL

Then there is this poll -- which doesn't have us ranked at all:  FOX SPORTS

Browns Head Coach High on DeShone Kizer

Thought you'd enjoy reading this story...

LINK:  HUE JACKSON TALKS KIZER

Notre Dame's Monogram Club Ceremony

OT: I'm Rooting for Patch & Irish War Cry...

The 143 Kentucky Derby will be starting soon on NBC -- thought I'd share my two favorites:  Patch and Irish War Cry...

LINK:  PATCH

LINK:  IRISH WAR CRY

OT: This Gets Me Every Time...