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Liam Coolican | Friday, May 15, 2020
When the Notre Dame softball team received the news that their season would be suspended due to the COVID-19 pandemic, they were on a spring break road trip in California. They were preparing to head to the field when the news broke. “It was a little overwhelming, and the days went by and the weeks
Liam Coolican | Friday, May 15, 2020
The Holy Cross men’s soccer team had a strong season, making the Chicagoland Collegiate Athletic Conference (CCAC) postseason tournament for the second consecutive year, and finished with a 12-5-2 record, their best since 2013. The Saints defeated Judson University on the road before falling to Cardinal Stritch University in the second round of the tournament.
Liam Coolican | Friday, May 15, 2020
After an up and down season, the Saint Mary’s cross country team finished the year on a strong note, placing fourth in the Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association conference championship meet, before placing 17th at the Great Lakes Regional meet, which was nine places higher than last year’s finish. However, it was still not enough to
Liam Coolican | Tuesday, April 28, 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted every level of sports, but nothing has been hit as hard as minor league baseball. The minor leagues don’t have lucrative television deals, and most of their merchandise sales come from fans at the ballpark. Even if they do play games this season, which seems increasingly unlikely, they have no
David Kramer, Hayden Adams, Jimmy Ward, Mannion McGinley, Liam Coolican, Nate Moller, Aidan Thomas and Greg McKenna | Monday, April 20, 2020
Where would we be without adrenaline? We find it buried in the backseat of dusty, puberty-ridden school buses, or blaring on those trusted headphones that we’ve used since middle school. It reaches every corner of our sweaty locker rooms and, better yet, spilling into the arena lobbies with such volume that everyone knows we made
Liam Coolican | Thursday, March 5, 2020
The NFL Combine, which occurs every year in the last week of February, gives teams an opportunity to see just how athletic the players they are considering drafting are. The players, looking to boost or cement their draft stock, go through the gauntlet of tests such as the bench press, the vertical jump, 20-yard shuttle
Liam Coolican | Wednesday, March 4, 2020
The Notre Dame women’s basketball team will begin play Wednesday afternoon in the ACC tournament in Greensboro, North Carolina. This is the first time since joining the ACC in 2013 that the Irish (13-17, 8-10 ACC) do not own the top seed heading into the tournament. This year, after an often-disappointing season, the Irish will
Liam Coolican | Friday, February 28, 2020
Notre Dame (18-10, 9-8 ACC) looks to continue their late-season push when they travel to Winston-Salem, North Carolina, for a matchup with Wake Forest (12-15, 5-12 ACC) on Saturday afternoon. The Irish have been playing well as of late, winning their last three games, two of them on last second shots. Senior guard T.J. Gibbs
Liam Coolican | Wednesday, February 26, 2020
After winning two games at home last week, the Notre Dame men’s basketball team heads to Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, to take on Boston College. The Irish (17-10, 8-8 ACC) were defeated by the Eagles (13-15, 7-10 ACC) at home on Dec. 7 by a score of 73-72, after Notre Dame’s comeback attempt fell short. “Watching
Liam Coolican | Wednesday, February 26, 2020
As spring training gets underway, I, like every other fan, am hopeful my team will make it to the World Series. As much as I want to believe that, however, I have to realize that my team, the Detroit Tigers, is “rebuilding” — or in language the team won’t use, tanking. Tanking — losing games