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-Mia Berry | Friday, April 20, 2018
In basketball, there’s a saying, “game recognizes game and you’re looking unfamiliar,” which simply means it takes a great player to recognize a great player, and any player outside of a certain level of greatness is deemed “unfamiliar.” While great players have been able to recognize other great players regardless of gender, the ability to
Mia Berry | Thursday, April 19, 2018
After concluding a successful regular season, which saw them earn six top-10 tournament finishes, the Irish have turned their attention to the ACC Championship this coming weekend at the Grandover Resort & Conference Center in Greensboro, North Carolina. Although the Irish experienced a successful regular season, head coach Susan Holt knows that postseason play is
Mia Berry | Friday, April 13, 2018
For the program’s eighth-annual Strikeout Cancer Weekend, Notre Dame is set to take on ACC rival Duke in a three-game series. After changing up the schedule Thursday due to the threat of inclement weather, the series is now set to open Friday before a doubleheader Saturday. Coming off a Wednesday doubleheader against Loyola-Chicago in which
Mia Berry | Wednesday, April 11, 2018
In their final regular-season tournament, the Irish placed 13th overall at the Bryan National Collegiate Invitational, which took place in Greensboro, North Carolina, over Friday and Saturday. The three-round event featured a strong field with six top-25 teams. After the opening two rounds of the tournament Friday, the Irish were in ninth place in the
Mia Berry | Friday, April 6, 2018
Malcolm X stood in front and said that black women are the most unprotected, disrespected and neglected people in America. Fifty years later the same sentiment can be felt by many black women today. We are deemed too strong, too loud and too angry. But it is often ignored that we as black women have
Mia Berry | Thursday, April 5, 2018
Three games. Two overtimes. Three buzzer beaters. Yet not nearly enough recognition nor media attention was given to arguably the greatest weekend in the history of the March Madness in either men’s or women’s basketball. Given the high level of play in the women’s Final Four, the media coverage and fan viewership should reflect numbers
Mia Berry | Wednesday, March 28, 2018
After a strong performance in the Cardinal Invitational, Notre Dame will resume competition this weekend when it hits the water to square off against Princeton and Columbia. After finishing first in two of three varsity four races and first in one of the three varsity eight races on the second day of the Cardinal Invitational,
Mia Berry | Thursday, March 22, 2018
After a two-week hiatus, the Irish placed fifth overall at the Clover Cup at Longbow Golf Club in Mesa, Arizona. Inconsistent play during the final day of the Clover Cup erased a promising two-day total that gave the Irish the opportunity to finish within the top-three. At the end of day one of the three-day
Mia Berry | Thursday, March 8, 2018
The Irish were able to come back from a 21-point deficit and pull off a second-half comeback over Virginia Tech on Wednesday, advancing to the ACC tournament quarterfinals with a 71-65 victory. For the second time this season the matchup between the Hokies (21-11, 10-8 ACC) and the Irish (20-13, 8-10) went down to the
Mia Berry | Monday, March 5, 2018
With the 2018 NFL Draft a little more than a month away, all eyes have turned to the Combine to determine who will be the future of a NFL franchise. For the second year in a row, the Browns hold the No. 1 selection in the draft, and odds are they might draft another quarterback.