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-Liam Coolican | Tuesday, May 4, 2021
Last year’s playoff bubble gave the NBA a rare opportunity to experiment with a major rule change. The league instituted a play-in tournament in which the ninth seed — if it was within four games of the eight seed — would play a short series to see which team advanced to the playoffs. The eighth
Liam Coolican | Tuesday, April 27, 2021
Notre Dame wasn’t going to go down without a fight. Despite being blown out 10-0 in Friday’s opener and trailing by 9 runs late in the second game of the Saturday doubleheader, the sixth-ranked Irish (20-8, 18-8 ACC) still managed to take two of three on the road from Boston College (16-21, 6-18 ACC) this
Liam Coolican | Friday, April 23, 2021
The Notre Dame men’s golf team has been playing its best golf heading into the postseason but will face its toughest challenge yet this weekend at the ACC tournament in Milton, Ga. The ACC features six teams in the top 25, including four in the top ten. No. 2 Florida State leads the conference, followed
Liam Coolican | Monday, April 19, 2021
Lebron James. Kevin Durant. Anthony Davis. Jamal Murray. Joel Embiid. Shai Gilgeous-Alexander. D’Angelo Russell. What do these players have in common, apart from being NBA superstars? They have all missed significant time due to injury this year. They aren’t the only ones, either. Players like Giannis Antetokounmpo, Steph Curry and James Harden have missed games
Liam Coolican | Thursday, April 15, 2021
Playing their first contest as a top-10 team in nearly 15 years, the 7th ranked Notre Dame baseball (16-6, 14-6 ACC) team jumped on Central Michigan (17-10, 9-3 MAC) early and often en route to an 8-4 victory. “The game rewards you for how you go about it,” head coach Link Jarrett said after the
Liam Coolican | Monday, April 12, 2021
When the Notre Dame volleyball team returned to campus in August, they didn’t even know if there would be a season. Just over eight months later, the Irish (14-3, 13-3 ACC) find themselves ranked 22nd in the country and returning to the NCAA tournament for the third time in the last four seasons. “I said
Liam Coolican | Thursday, April 8, 2021
Dear Major League Baseball, You’ve come a long way in recent years. Just a few short years ago, José Bautista created a minor scandal – and one of the most exciting moments in recent memory – when he flipped his bat in celebration of a walk-off home run in the 2015 ALDS. It may not
Liam Coolican | Friday, March 26, 2021
After last weekend’s pair of victories, one at home over Liberty, and the other on the road against No. 19 Louisville, the fifth-ranked Notre Dame women’s lacrosse team (4-2, 1-2 ACC) will travel to Durham, North Carolina, to take on ninth-ranked Duke (6-3, 2-3 ACC) on Sunday. The Blue Devils have faced a plethora of
Liam Coolican | Friday, March 19, 2021
After the Notre Dame softball team (9-7, 3-5 ACC) split last weekend’s series against North Carolina, they will travel to Atlanta for a four game series against Georgia Tech (8-15, 3-11 ACC) this weekend. Head coach Deanna Gumpf described her team’s performance against the Tarheels as “up and down.” The Irish lost 6-0 on Friday,
Liam Coolican | Monday, March 15, 2021
First half goals from Aiden McFadden and Jack Lynn and a dominant defensive performance throughout helped guide the Notre Dame men’s soccer team (7-5, 4-3 ACC) to a 2-0 road victory over Duke (3-8-2, 2-5 ACC) on Friday night. “I think it’s starting to be our identity,” head coach Chad Riley said of the defense.