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Liam Coolican | Friday, May 21, 2021
Notre Dame’s season began with an exhibition match against Louisville in a park just outside of Indianapolis. It ended “probably one game away” from being selected to the NCAA tournament, according to head coach Chad Riley. The Irish had an up and down year, playing competitive matches in the spring and the fall due to
Liam Coolican | Friday, May 21, 2021
They started the season 1-5 in conference play. They battled a COVID-related shutdown of the program. They had more than 20 positional changes. But the Holy Cross men’s soccer team still found a way to finish with a winning record and make the conference tournament for the third year in a row. “It [was] one
Liam Coolican | Friday, May 21, 2021
When Omar Gallo took over the Holy Cross women’s soccer team in 2018, he inherited a two-win program. After a tough first year, in which the team won just three games, Gallo elected to keep just six players from the 2018 roster for the next year. Despite the lack of experience, Gallo guided the Saints
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