Author Jim Lefebvre shared his insights as to what Coach Knute Rockne may have had to say about the the recent announcement of the $400 million building project called Campus Crossroads announced by Notre Dame. Listen to his interview (below) with WSBT’s Eric Hansen and Darin Pritchett. The legendary coach, known as a visionary in Read Full Post
A Notre Dame Family’s Home
October 28, 2013 by
This year’s Notre Dame-Southern Cal game was to be a special occasion for the Bob Cronin family of Elmhurst, Illinois. Bob, a 1982 Notre Dame graduate and former president of the ND Club of Chicago, was told by his old buddies from Dillon Hall that they had something special they wanted to present to the Read Full Post
More Than Scores
October 9, 2013 by
Every day, there seems to be more stories swirling around the world of football beyond wins and losses, strategies and statistics. Here are just a few from recent days: A PBS Frontline documentary details the efforts of the NFL to deny and undermine evidence linking violent football collisions with chronic traumatic encephalopathy, which has been Read Full Post
The Alma Mater: What Would ‘Rock’ Do?
October 2, 2013 by
Amidst the flap over whether Notre Dame football players should join their fellow ND students in the singing of “Notre Dame, Our Mother” after the conclusion of games—win or lose—was this statement from Brian Kelly: “I just don’t think it’s appropriate to put your players after defeat in a situation where they are exposed.” Exposed? Read Full Post
Coming this September, from Great Day Press:
“Coach For A Nation: The Life and Times of Knute Rockne”
March 4, 2013 by
He transformed the game of football forever and inspired a nation along the way. Knute Rockne’s journey from immigrant child to Notre Dame coaching legend to revered national figure illustrates to us today the endless possibilities of the human spirit. This September, Great Day Press presents the authoritative biography Coach For A Nation: The Life Read Full Post
Of Myth-Making, Hoaxes, Pressure, and Truth
January 18, 2013 by
The ten days from January 7 through 16, 2013, will go down as a period of unrelentingly shocking developments in the history of University of Notre Dame football. And I think it’s not a stretch to say that the third in the series of shockers (the hoax surrounding the girlfriend of Manti Te’o) helps to Read Full Post
Rally, Sons of Notre Dame!
January 7, 2013 by
Brian Kelly said it best in the cramped locker room at the Los Angeles Coliseum late in the evening of November 24. “We won this game the way we’ve won every game this season,” he shouted to the victorious Irish crowded around him. “With our will, our determination, our want and our desire.” Football analysts Read Full Post
Saturating South Beach
January 6, 2013 by
It was an amazing scene Saturday as tens of thousands of Fighting Irish fans descended on South Beach to celebrate undefeated Notre Dame’s spot in the BCS title game. Ocean Drive was closed to traffic for several blocks, and taken over by swarms of fans (and restaurants that extended their outdoor seating) eager to enjoy Read Full Post
The ND-Bama Link
January 5, 2013 by
In the late 1920s, a young man in the southern Arkansas town of Fordyce was starting to make quite a name for himself. As a 13-year-old, he wrestled a captive bear in a promotion for a local movie theater, and gained a lifelong nickname. He made the high school’s varsity football team as an eighth-grader, Read Full Post
Manti: A Sense of Knowing
November 30, 2012 by
Following an afternoon of steady showers, the skies had opened into an all-out downpour on rain-soaked Notre Dame Stadium. Students romped with student-athletes, celebrating a dramatic goal-line stand that ended a classic, overtime victory against fellow heavyweight Stanford. Manti Te’o stood with his arm around his coach, Brian Kelly, explaining for a national audience what Read Full Post
