Thursday, March 5, 2020
Wednesday, March 4, 2020
Knute Rockne Was Born On This Day in 1888
The greatest college football coach of all-time was born on this day -- March 4, 1888 in Voss, Norway...
Rockne's winning percentage of .881 is still the highest in big-time football history!
The video above is of the unveiling of the Knute Rockne Stamp!
Tuesday, March 3, 2020
Domer Cal Peterson's Road to the NHL
13 former Notre Dame hockey players have played in the National Hockey League this season...
LINK: FORMER ND HOCKEY STARS
Sunday, March 1, 2020
A Notre Dame Student-Athlete -- Alohi Gilman
A true Notre Dame
man.
After the #NFLCombine
concluded, @alohigilman
stayed on the field to pick up garbage and clean up.#GoIrishpic.twitter.com/9K6hH9pW9o
—
Notre Dame Football (@NDFootball) March
2, 2020
Muffet's Irish Just Beat #19 Florida State!
Always Fighting. Always Irish.
How about that -- the Notre Dame Fighting Irish just went on the road and beat the 19th ranked Florida State Seminoles 70 - 67, to finish the regular season!
LINK: BOX SCORE
Domer's First Marathon, Makes Olympic Team!
Notre Dame alum Molly Seidel ran her first ever marathon yesterday -- and you know what -- she made the US Olympic Team with that run!
Here's a New York Times story on Molly's first ever...
LINK: OLYMPIAN -- NEW YORK TIMES
LINK: USA TODAY
LINK: SPORTS ILLUSTRATED
Saturday, February 29, 2020
Yared Nuguse Wins Mile at ACC Championship
🚨 NUGUSE ON THE
LOOSE!! 🚨
Yared Nuguse runs a personal best,
facility record, and meet record 3:55:62 in the mile!!#ACCITF
| @NDXCTF
pic.twitter.com/LO6LR2DDWo
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ACC Track & Field (@ACCTrackField) February
29, 2020
Domer Molly Seidel Makes US Olympic Team!
That feeling when
you're headed to #Tokyo2020!
Molly
Seidel places second at the U.S. Olympic Trials and will represent
@TeamUSA
in women's marathon this summer!
WAY TO GO,
MOLLY!#GoIrish
| #OlympiansMadeHere
pic.twitter.com/FY9Z3CeIrJ
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Notre Dame XC/TF (@NDXCTF) February
29, 2020
Congrats Molly!
Friday, February 28, 2020
Irish Close Home Season Win Win Over NC
Muffet's Fighting Irish beat North Carolina -- quite handily last night...
Rankings (By Position) NFL Draft Combine
Here's a look at how the former members of the Fighting Irish of Notre Dame football team -- are doing at the 2020 NFL Scouting Combine, in their respective position groups:
CHASE CLAYPOOL:
- 40 Yard Dash: 4:42 -- 6th / WR
- Vertical Jump: 40.5" -- 4th / WR
- Bench Press: 19 -- 5th / WR
- Broad Jump: 126" -- 6th / WR
LINK: SPORTING NEWS STORY ON CLAYPOOL
COLE KMET:
- 40 Yard Dash: 4.70 -- 4th / TE
- Vertical Jump: 37" -- 1 / TE
- Broad Jump: 123" -- 2 / TE
- 3-Cone Drill: 7.44 -- 12th / TE
- 20 Yard Shuttle: 4.41 -- 9th / TE
LINK: SPORTS ILLUSTRATED STORY ON KMET
CHRIS FINKE:
- 40 Yard Dash: 4:57 / 28th / WR
- Vertical Jump: 40" -- 5th / WR
- Bench Press: 7 -- 33rd / WR
JULIAN OKWARA:
- Bench Press: 27 -- 10th / DL
TONY JONES, JR:
- 40 Yard Dash: 4.68 -- 27th / RB
- Vertical Jump: 32.5" -- 23rd / RB
- Bench Press: 13 -- 22nd / RB
- Broad Jump: 119" -- 20th / RB
- 3 Cone Drill: 7.80 -- 7th / RB
- 20 Yard Shuttle: 4.21 -- 5th / RB
JASON ELLIOTT:
- Bench Press: 15 -- 13th / S
- 40 Yard Dash: 4.80 -- 20th / S
- Vertical Jump: 32" -- 20th / S
- Broad Jump: 125" -- 7th / S
ALOHI GILMAN:
- Bench Press: 17 -- 11th / S
- 40 Yard Dash: 4.60 -- 12th / S
- Vertical Jump: 34" -- 15th / S
- Broad Jump: 119" -- 16th / S
- 20 Yard Shuttle: 4.08 -- 1st / S
TROY PRIDE, JR:
- Bench Press: 13 -- 13th / DB
- 40 Yard Dash: 4.40 -- 4th / DB
- Vertical Jump: 35.5" -- 14th / DB
- Broad Jump: 119" -- 22nd / DB
- 3 Cone Drill: 6.94 -- 4th / DB
- 20 Yard Shuttle: 4.26 -- 7th / DB
Thursday, February 27, 2020
Claypool Goes "Officially" 4.42 in 40 Today!
🔥6’4” 238 lbs.
🔥4.45 40-yard dash
🔥19 Bench press reps
Chase Claypool is having a Combine.
pic.twitter.com/2ct4Q5hkdn— PFF Draft (@PFF_College) February 27, 2020
It goes down as the 2nd fastest "all-time" for a wide receiver taller than 6'-4" weighing more than 235 lbs. The only one faster -- Georgia Tech's Calvin Johnson, back in 2007!Pretty good company. Mr. Claypool made some money today!
March "Sadness" -- NO, IRISH WIN LATE!!!
Gibb's bucket with a TENTH OF A SECOND LEFT -- keeps the Fighting Irish's hopes alive for a NCAA bid....
Wednesday, February 26, 2020
NFL Combine Performances Begin for IRISH
Chase Claypool 19
reps on bench press. #NFLCombine
pic.twitter.com/pas7NfMM2f
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Notre Dame Fanpage (@Insidetheirish) February
26, 2020
Looks like Chase Claypool put up 225 lbs. 19 times. Here's how that would have ranked last year among WR's and also TE's:19 would have placed Claypool 6th among WR's at the 2019 NFL Combine19 would have placed Claypool 7th among TE's at the 2019 NFL Combine
"FATIMA" -- Produced by John Carney's Wife
Origin Entertainment is producing Fatima. It's Executive Producer is Holly Carney -- wife of Notre Dame alum, and the NFL's fifth leading scorer of all-time, John Carney.
Fatima will be in theaters beginning April 24th.
Tuesday, February 25, 2020
Notre Dame Colleague's Photo with "Planet Pat"
One of my Notre Dame colleagues -- Geoff Stookey was in Milwaukee last night to see the Bucks play and he had his photo taken with my favorite NBA player Pat Connaughton before the game!
Chase Claypool: NFL Draft Combine Interview
Our friends at Irish Illustrated posted this video on YouTube...
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