By PAUL SIEGFRIED ISL Correspondent Several players from Indiana colleges may hear their names called over the three days of the National Football League draft that begins with Thursday’s first round in New York. The draft continues with the second and third rounds on Friday and the final four rounds of the seven-round draft on […]
By DOUG GRIFFITHS ISL Assistant Editor SOUTH BEND, Ind. — The way Notre Dame started its season opener you thought they would cover the spread in the first half. The first two times the Fighting Irish touched the ball against visiting Temple, they found the end zone, and for all practical purposes the game was […]
By DOUG GRIFFITHS ISL Assistant Editor NOTRE DAME, Ind. — Finally the Irish resembled a top five team at home, hammering Wake Forest 38-0 Saturday in Notre Dame Stadium. The third-ranked Irish’s previous five home games were all decided by a touchdown or less, but this one was over in a hurry. Notre Dame scored […]
By DOUG GRIFFITHS ISL Correspondent Notre Dame has been playing with fire in its home games and after a triple overtime win over Pitt Saturday, the Irish finally got burned. No, they didn’t see their undefeated season go up in smoke, but rather another close home victory cost them a spot in the ever-important BCS […]
By DOUG GRIFFITHS ISL Correspondent NOTRE DAME, Ind. — If you didn’t believe Notre Dame is a team of destiny before Saturday, you probably do now. The fourth-ranked Irish’s 29-26 triple overtime win over Pitt was nothing short of miraculous. Notre Dame snatched a victory from the jaws of defeat not once but a couple […]
By DOUG GRIFFITHS ISL Correspondent Beating a top-10 team on the road is never easy, especially when you’re a double-digit underdog, but Notre Dame made it look about as easy as possible Saturday night when it handled Oklahoma with relative ease, beating the Sooners by 17 points. As they have all season long, the Irish […]
By DOUG GRIFFITHS ISL Correspondent Notre Dame is for real. If there was any doubt, Brian Kelly’s fifth-ranked Irish silenced the critics with an extremely impressive 30-13 win at No. 8 Oklahoma. Go ahead start the national championship talk because it’s warranted. Barring something out of the ordinary, Notre Dame will be 11-0 when it […]