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Unlike any number of top jock schools, Notre Dame has always had a university its football team could be proud of. Yet football has forever defined the university. Without those pigskin Saturdays in South Bend, Ind., Notre Dame might be just another very nice Catholic school, a rural Villanova...
Which is why Notre Dame's "return to glory," as it is known on campus, is much more than a rebound in its football fortunes. The Fighting Irish are experiencing their best campaign since 1993--a turnaround engineered by a first-year coach who was Notre Dame's second choice for the job. Lapsed fans across the country are returning to the football fold and to their televisions. "Notre Dame attracts the casual fan to college football the way Michael Jordan does in basketball or the Triple Crown does in horse racing," says NBC Sports president Ken Schanzer. Notre Dame...
...great tragedy of non-attendance in Harvard sports lies in the would-be fans who don’t appreciate what’s available. Ivy League athletics are just a notch above Pee-Wee athletics in the minds of would-be Harvard fans who grow up watching Notre Dame football and Duke hoops...
...number of black coaches in the major sports, especially football, is abysmally small. Currently, there are only four black coaches out of 117 Division I football programs, the most prominent being Tyrone Willingham of Notre Dame, though even he was only hired after the Fighting Irish’s first choice, the white George O’Leary, had to quit due to biographical discrepancies. Even sadder, there are very few black coaches in the pipeline: blacks in prominent assistant coaching positions...
...Vatican's failure to endorse the Dallas proposals came as no surprise, and Notre Dame professor Scott Appleby, says that in light of previous differences between Rome and the U.S. bishops, the Vatican's response was actually more positive than had been expected. "Historically, the Vatican has been much more paternalistic," Appleby said. "There has been much more 'Here's what you're going...