The Fighting Irish get started next Thursday (August 6th) with Coach Kelly's press conference followed by practice on Friday when they head to Culver Military Academy for a five day training camp...
Notre Dame's Matt Cashore jumped in a plane recently to take these photos of Corbett Family Hall (East side) and the Duncan Student Center (West side) under construction at Notre Dame Stadium.
The three-year starter at offensive guard at Notre Dame, Chris is gearing up for his second training camp with the San Diego Chargers -- this time as their starting center!
The Fighting Alumni -- a team of former Notre Dame basketball players will begin the defense of their CHAMPIONSHIP in The Basketball Tournament -- tonight on ESPNU at 8 PM ET.
They won the $500,000 first prize last year -- this year it's $1,000,000 !!!
And, to add to our listening pleasure this evening -- the voice of Notre Dame men's basketball Jack Nolan and the head coach of the Fighting Irish Mike Brey will be handling the play by play and analysis of the game. Should be fun!!!
The Fighting Alumni feature these former Notre Dame hoops stars:
Former Notre Dame women's basketball player and coach -- Coquese Washington '93, '97 -- was recently named president of the Women's Basketball Coaches Association.
Coquese is the first African American ever elected to lead the WBCA. She earned an undergraduate degree and a law degree from the University of Notre Dame.
Washington is currently the head women's basketball coach at Penn State University.
Former Notre Dame hoops star Natalie Achonwa '14, led her Canadian teammates to a win last night over the United States in the Pan-American Games for their first ever gold medal in basketball!
That's Natalie (uniform #11) seconds after the win last night in Toronto.
There's a number of DOMERS in Lake Tahoe, NV this weekend playing in the American Century Championship for celebrity golf.
Here's the list of players with ties to Notre Dame and where they stand going into today's final round on NBC -- television coverage runs from 3 PM ET to 6 PM ET:
Trent Dilfer (Domer Dad) -- 15th
Joe Theismann (Domer) -- 20th
Jerome Bettis (Domer) -- 32nd
Tim Brown (Domer) -- 43rd
Tyler Eifert (Domer) -- 46th
Cris Collinsworth (Domer Dad) -- 76th
Brian Kelly (Coach) -- 78th
Note: I found it quite interesting that the Reno-Gazette posted a number of photos of Justin Timberlake playing golf yesterday -- and then who do you find next -- Notre Dame head football coach Brian Kelly (photo above).
LINK: LEADERBOARD
She's only 11 years-old and already a NATIONAL CHAMPION!
JoJo Conway, the daughter of one of my colleagues here at Notre Dame -- Luke Conway '93, won all eleven of her bouts at the Foil National Championships in San Jose, CA to win the National Championship!
Here's a look at the stats from the NBA Summer League games for Notre Dame rookies Jerian Grant and Pat Connaugton. I also have the stats for Luke Harangody, who is playing for the Phoenix Sun's team:
Former Notre Dame student-athlete Danielle Greene will be honored this evening during ESPN's telecast of THE ESPYS. You're not going to want to miss Danielle receiving the Pat Tillman Award!
The broadcast begins at 7 PM ET with the coverage of the 'red-carpet' entrance -- followed by THE ESPYS beginning at 8 PM ET on ESPN.
Former Notre Dame All-American Jerian Grant is more than holding his own in the NBA Summer League. Here's an interview he gave after yesterday's game...
Former Notre Dame basketball / baseball star Pat Connaughton '15, played his second professional hoops game Sunday night in Las Vegas in the NBA Summer League.
Pat had a better night -- scoring 11 points on 4 for 10 shooting -- including 2 for 5 from behind the three-point arch. He also grabbed six rebounds (second most on the team).
If you click on the link below you'll see a beautiful drive down the lane by Connaughton leading to a three-point play.
Found this interesting -- in game #1 Pat was listed as a Guard -- in game #2, Pat was listed as a FORWARD.
Notre Dame's most prolific chemistry professor, Emil, T. Hofman left for heaven yesterday morning at the age of 94. Hofman taught more than 32,000 Notre Dame students.
Here's a wonderful Notre Dame Magazine story on Dr. Hofman -- second link below: