Because of the extreme heat conditions here on campus today -- the University of Notre Dame's Opening of the Academic Year Mass has been moved indoors to the Basilica of the Sacred Heart.
Mass will begin at 5:30 PM ET and can be watched LIVE at the video player above.
LINK: STORY
Well, my Dad (Jim Small, Detroit Tigers center fielder) had the same experience with Ty Cobb -- just before my Dad headed to Lakeland, FL for Spring Training in 1957. Here's the newspaper story from the San Francisco Examiner in February of 1957.
The folks at the San Francisco Examiner set up this interview / feature between Ty Cobb and my Dad, after his second season with the Detroit Tigers in 1956. My Dad is one of the very few players in Major League Baseball history to jump straight from high school to the big leagues -- which he did in June of 1955 after his high school graduation from Bellarmine Prep (San Jose, CA). He is 19 years-old in this photo with Cobb.
The photo on bottom left shows Ty splitting my Dad's hands apart on the bat -- which is how Cobb held the bat during his Hall of Fame career...
The coolest moment happened at the end of the day at Cobb's home -- when he went into a closet and pulled out a photo of his first day in a Tiger's uniform in 1905 -- and signed it and gave it to my Dad.
Here is Joe Theismann interviewing my Dad about his baseball career:
Ty Cobb giving a young Mickey Mantle hitting tips pic.twitter.com/3qmbEAjEbf
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The hold up has been "Tropical Storm Fred" which delayed the construction of the seats for the golf car (Lazy Life Seats + Covers -- Grovetown, GA) and the challenges in matching the color GOLD.
Finding the right gold paint color -- is DIFFICULT!
I did take on the task of creating a few medallions (photo above) that could be used on the front grille and the steering wheel of the golf car. Matt Leevy and Anthony Van Avermaete at Notre Dame's Idea Center were kind enough to knock out some Notre Dame Monograms out of acrylic for me -- then I took it from there.
Here's hoping we'll have wheels on the ground in South Bend before the Toledo game!
I've been hearing about this store for years -- from my wife -- but, I had never stepped foot inside one, until today. IMPRESSED.
Prediction -- they are going to do very well here at Notre Dame!
LINK: JAMIR JONES
LINK: FILM STUDY ON JAMIR
LINK: TONY JONES JR.
The former Notre Dame defensive end played a number of snaps last night in the Lions' exhibition loss to the Buffalo Bills. Julian put plenty of pressure on the Bill's QB's throughout the game...
Julian's press session starts at: 22:52 mark of the video above