Saturday, January 5, 2013

Notre Dame Beats #1 UCONN !!!


Muffet's Lady Irish just beat #1 ranked UCONN 73 - 72 on the road -- the fifth win for ND over the Huskies in their last six meetings!

LINK:  GAME HIGHLIGHTS

LINK:  HARTFORD COURANT STORY

LINK:  STORY

LINK:  BOX SCORE

LINK:  NOTRE DAME OVER #1 UCONN

Notre Dame's Adam Sargent's Story





The University of Notre Dame's Associate Director for Academic Services is Adam Sargent -- what many don't know is his story...


LINK:  NOTRE DAME'S SARGENT

Domer "Super Mario" Lucia World Champion!


Fighting Irish Hockey's Mario Lucia and his USA Hockey teammates won the World Hockey Junior Championships today in Russia!

LINK:  USA WINS WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP

Trick Shot Monday -- Notre Dame BCS Style


Well, I guess we can count on another ESPN produced "Trick Shot Monday" segment to air sometime Monday before the BCS National Championship game!

LINK:  VIDEO OF TRICK SHOT MONDAY

Notre Dame Hits the Beach - BCS Style!


Got to love this sand sculpture!

Notre Dame's BCS Media Day -- Today


Here's a link to coverage of this morning Media Day for Notre Dame at the BCS National Championship game.  Click on the link below:

LINK:  BRIAN KELLY'S INTERVIEW

LINK:  UND.COM'S COVERAGE

LINK:  NOTRE DAME'S MEDIA DAY

Photo of National Championship Trophy




This was just "tweeted" from Media Day at the BCS National Championship.

Photo of the Day: ND BCS End Zone Paint


The folks are finishing up the end zone painting at Sun Life Stadium for Monday night's BCS National Championship game.  As you can see -- NOTRE DAME will be spelled out in GOLD against a BLUE field.

ESPN Video Story on ND's Defensive Line


A couple of ESPN college football guys talked last night about Notre Dame's defensive line.  Click on the link below:

LINK:  ND DEFENSIVE LINE

Friday, January 4, 2013

The Golic Family Encounters Two Bama Fans



A camera crew followed the Golic family to a local CT restaurant where they ran across a couple of young ladies from Alabama -- you'll have to watch the video to learn the rest...

LINK:  THE GOLICS -- OUT TO EAT

Notre Dame BCS Championship: Day Three


The Fighting Irish just put a finish on DAY THREE in South Florida preparing for Monday Night's BCS National Championship -- and our friends at Fighting Irish Digital Media were there every step of the way!

LINK:  ND BCS REPORT -- DAY THREE RECAP

LINK:  ND BCS REPORT -- PRACTICE

LINK:  MEDIA SESSION -- CHUCK MARTIN & EVERETT GOLSON

Great Story in Miami Herald on Manti Te'o


Just ran across this story in the Miami Herald about Notre Dame's All-American linebacker Manti Te'o.  ND fans will enjoy this story:

LINK:  MANTI -- "LIFE IS ABOUT ONES YOU LOVE"

Notre Dame's "Holy Line" -- Wall Street Journal


Of all places -- the Wall Street Journal's Kevin Helliker pens a piece on the Catholic character of the University of Notre Dame.

Notre Dame fans will want to read this. 

LINK:  NOTRE DAME'S HOLY LINE

Nicholas Sparks' Guest Editorial @ the WSJ


Former Notre Dame student-athlete turned mega writing star -- Nicholas Sparks '88 -- penned a piece yesterday for the Wall Street Journal about his alma mater's football team. 

Enjoy!

LINK:  NICHOLAS SPARKS ON HIS IRISH

Notre Dame BCS Blog -- Day Two Update


Fighting Irish Digital Media's Josh Flynt '11, is in South Florida with the team and he's blogging an update each day.  Here's his recap of Day Two of Notre Dame's preparation for next Monday's BCS National Championship game:

LINK:  ND'S BCS BLOG

ND FOOTBALL: BCS UPDATE DAY TWO

The folks at Fighting Irish Digital Media are doing a "bang-up" job of keeping us Notre Dame fans up to speed with what's going on in South Florida.  Here's their update from Day Two!

LINK:  ND FOOTBALL -- DAY TWO AT BCS CHAMPIONSHIP

Notre Dame Football: Honor & Tradition



This video was released yesterday and it already has more than 17,000 views.  I believe Notre Dame fans will enjoy watching this!

LINK:  HONOR AND TRADITION

Thursday, January 3, 2013

ESPN: "The Luckiest of the Fightin' Irish"


I thought I knew a little about Danny Spond's situation -- however, as you'll see in this story -- his health issues were quite significant.  ESPN"s Mark Schlabach reports on ND's starting outside linebacker...

You'll also learn why this young man wears uniform #13 for Notre Dame.

LINK:  THE LUCKIEST OF THE IRISH

USA Today: Notre Dame "Man's Up"


A USA Today writer by the name of William Mattox admitted his dislike for the Fighting Irish in the opening to this story he wrote today about Notre Dame football...

Yet, what's interesting -- is he'll be rooting for our guys Monday night.

Irish fans will enjoy his perspective:

LINK:  NOTRE DAME'S "ANY GIVEN SATURDAY"

Notre Dame's BCS TV Spot -- Watch it Here!


It's really, really good and it will run next Monday night during ESPN's coverage of the BCS National Championship game.

Kudos to our friends in University Communications at the University of Notre Dame -- this is great work!

LINK:  ND'S BCS TV SPOT