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A.J. Godeaux | Tuesday, April 29, 2014
After a thrilling 15-14 win over No. 4 Syracuse on Sunday to capture the ACC championship, the No. 5 Irish return to action Saturday with a home matchup against No. 19 Army. With the Irish (8-5, 2-3 ACC) jumping from ninth to fifth in the latest poll after their tournament championship, the game against Army
Cornelius McGrath, A.J. Godeaux, Kit Loughran and Brian Plamondon | Thursday, April 24, 2014
Uncle Drew Nem def. Tern-drup For What Uncle Drew Nem used a 7-0 run to handle Tern-drup For What, 21-8, in a Sweet 16 matchup. “Yesterday the team we played used a zone, so we talked about that last night,” Notre Dame employee Alex Stone said. “Today was just yesterday coming into fruition — we
A.J. Godeaux | Monday, April 7, 2014
“It’d be easy,” they said. “It’d take two minutes, tops,” they said. “It wouldn’t take away from the flow of the game,” they said. “Look, it worked so well in spring training,” they said. But, alas, what “they” ¾ the MLB marketing machine ¾ said about Major League Baseball’s newly-implemented instant replay system met its
A.J. Godeaux | Monday, March 31, 2014
Despite a frantic three-goal fourth-quarter comeback, No. 7 Notre Dame fell just short Saturday as No. 10 Syracuse came away with an 11-10 nail-biting ACC win over the Irish. Freshman goalie Shane Doss stopped a career high 11 shots for the Irish, while Irish junior attackman Conor Doyle notched four goals for the Irish, also
A.J. Godeaux | Tuesday, March 25, 2014
Yesterday in this column Mary Green wrote that it was easy to get caught up in March Madness, yet proceeded instead to write about baseball in Australia. I’d like to apologize, because I do not possess the “intestinal fortitude” ¾ the most overused phrase of sideline reporters this weekend ¾ of Mary Green. I am
A.J. Godeaux | Monday, March 3, 2014
It’s mock draft season. A visit to any major sports website between the months of February and May – and June to January as well, because every season is mock draft season these days – will likely not go by without seeing some NFL expert’s mock draft link in big bold letters on the front
A.J. Godeaux | Friday, February 28, 2014
After having their frenetic second-half comeback thwarted by No. 10 Penn State last Saturday, the eleventh-ranked Irish look to rebound from the 8-7 defeat when they travel to Chapel Hill to take on No. 3 North Carolina. Irish coach Kevin Corrigan said he was extremely proud of the way Notre Dame (1-1) rebounded from the
A.J. Godeaux | Thursday, February 27, 2014
This time last year, Ryan Alberdi was tearing through the 185-pound weight class on his way to a second Bengal Bouts championship, sporting a mustache that would make Tom Selleck and Ron Swanson proud and was hoping to attend Northwestern for graduate school. Oh, how times change. Now Alberdi says he’s lucky to get to
A.J. Godeaux | Thursday, February 27, 2014
Like many Bengal Bouts fighters, senior Ricky Neville originally joined the club to fill a competitive void left open when his high school athletics career came to a close. “I played football in high school, so when I got to school I wanted another sport to play,” the former Fisher Hall resident said. “I wanted
A.J. Godeaux | Wednesday, February 19, 2014
Every fall, a mass of beginner boxers, “novices” in Bengal-Bouts terms, descends on Stepan Fields to begin workouts in hopes of months later having an arm raised by the referee in victory. Freshman Jack Considine, who Monday night won his first Bengal Bouts fight by unanimous decision, is one of those novices. “I always thought