Notre Dame continues its efforts to salvage the 2016 season on Saturday when the 3-5 Fighting Irish battle Navy (5-2) at EverBank Field in Jacksonville, FL. The Irish have won the last five meetings in this series after the Midshipmen won back to back games in 2009-10. The contest will be nationally televised on CBS,…
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Irish Recover to Avoid Disaster
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A funny thing happened to Notre Dame as it headed toward another epic collapse fueled by a handful of horrific special teams miscues – the Irish caught a break. With two minutes remaining and the winning score a few tantalizing feet away, tight end Durham Smythe had the ball knocked out of his hands as…
Rivalry Renewed? Canes and Irish Looking for Answers
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Our guest author this week is jakam31 For the first time since 1990 the Miami Hurricanes make a trip to South Bend to take on the Fighting Irish of Notre Dame. Unlike that meeting when both teams were ranked in the top-10 and in the national title hunt, this game will feature two teams that…
Hurricane Relief for Haiti
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Most Irish fans associate Hurricane Matthew with the on-field devastation we saw vs. NC State. But there was plenty of real devastation in Matthew’s wake, and nowhere was it felt more than in Haiti. Notre Dame alumnus Vince DeGennaro, class of 2002, currently is providing relief work in that battered country. In the midst of…
Discipline
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There’s nothing like a 2-5 start to supercharge discussions of a coach’s future. Will he stay or won’t he? Which assistants will stay, and who will be let go? Who can they get? How can they improve? What can they do? I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but under Brian Kelly’s leadership,…