Notre Dame football coach Bob Elliott was given the great news the Tuesday before Thanksgiving. The kidney is coming from his sister Betsy Stough -- you'll love how she told her brother Bob...
This video was sent to the ND GO IRISH BLOG by Fr. Ralph Haag, C.S.C. -- a Notre Dame priest who's down in South Florida for tonight's BCS National Championship game.
ESPN pushed out this story today on Mike Golic and his son's Mike Jr. and Jake at home for Christmas break -- before heading down to Florida for tonight's BCS National Championship game.
The ND GO IRISH BLOG took a lap around the worldwide web this morning to see what the "media experts" have to say about tonight's BCS National Championship game between Notre Dame and Alabama.
Please remember this IRISH FANS -- most of the media has been wrong all season, why would they stop now?
These words were spoken by a football coach at a little school in the "middle of nowhere" -- but, they still resonate today -- nearly 80 years later...
What though the odds be great or small, Old Notre Dame will win over all!
Notre Dame's last four coaches who were in their THIRD SEASON and were playing for a NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP -- won the TITLE! Brian Kelly is in his third season.
There have been eight (8) BCS National Championship games where one head coach had no history of winning a BCS National Championship was up against a coach who had previously won one or more national titles. The coach who had yet to win a national championship has won SEVEN TIMES! Brian Kelly is playing in his first BCS title game -- Nick Saban has won three so far...
And, Monday January 7th is the Feast Day for Saint Andre Bessette, C.S.C. Bessette is the first member of the Congregation of Holy Cross (the founders of the University of Notre Dame) to receive canonisation as a saint by the Catholic church.
The Fighting Irish made a visit to Joe DiMaggio's Children Hospital and Coach Kelly held his last session with the media before tomorrow night's BCS National Championship game with Alabama.
Took a lap around the web this morning to look into the coverage of Notre Dame's Pep Rally last night in Miami -- an event that drew more than 40,000 fans (Miami police estimate)!
Click on the links below to the UND.COM coverage along with the news report from WNDU-TV:
I received an email today from Notre Dame fan Matt Schaefer who is trying to pull together a viewing party for this "Tuesday morning" at an Irish pub called Tir Na Nog in Aarhus, Denmark.
If you're interested in attending -- please reach out to Matt at: schaeffe1@grinnell.edu
Notre Dame is tied with Alabama and Oregon with the best regular season record over the last 22 games in college football's FBS division -- think about that!
The IRISH, Crimson Tide and Ducks are all 20 - 2 over this span of games these past two seasons.
The Miami Police have never seen anything like this -- just look at this photo just "tweeted" from Notre Dame's Pep Rally at the BCS National Championship Pep Rally.
Notre Dame's highly recruited Gunner Kiel was taking in the scene today at Sun Life Stadium when a reporter from the Chicago Tribune got him on camera for a quick interview. Click on the link below.
Former Notre Dame All-American QB Brady Quinn is down in South Florida this weekend to see his Fightin' Irish play in the BCS National Championship game.
Here's an interview he gave to the gang at Fighting Irish Digital Media:
The Notre Dame Family has gathered in South Beach tonight for a Saturday night National Championship Pep Rally. Here's a photo of former Notre Dame coach Lou Holtz (on the big screen) firing up the crowd!
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.
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...
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!
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.
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:
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!
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.
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.
Notre Dame football's first BCS National Championship's press conference took place at 9 AM this morning featuring defensive coordinator Bob Diaco and All-American linebacker Manti Te'o.
Louis "Irish Chocolate" Nix sang "Gangnam Style" last night during a Karaoke competition at the Miami Heat game. The Miami crowd gave the "win" to ND's Nix over Alabama's Christion Jones!