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-Mannion McGinley | Friday, October 22, 2021
Drew White has been on the field for the Irish since 2018. Back then, he played four games on the season with 2 tackles of his own and 6 assisted. Since then, he’s had only one goal: to improve. In 2019, White saw all 13 games. 8 total tackles became 80, 48 of them on
Nate Moller and Mannion McGinley | Wednesday, October 13, 2021
The Saint Mary’s cross country team returned to action at the Bethel Invitational at St. Joseph’s County Park on Friday, just a few miles north of campus. The team ultimately came in seventh out of 16 teams with 194 points. This race was the Belles’ first cross country race in a couple of weeks, and
Aidan Thomas, Jimmy Ward, Colin Capece, Emily DeFazio, Nate Moller and Mannion McGinley | Friday, October 8, 2021
Notre Dame travels to Blacksburg, Virginia to take on the Virginia Tech Hokies in a night game at the always raucous Lane Stadium. The Irish are looking to avoid losing two straight games in the regular season for the first time in five years. The Observer staff – after watching Notre Dame lose at home
Mannion McGinley | Thursday, October 7, 2021
This weekend sucked. I will not lie about that. To be a student on campus when the home streak broke was not easy. Although, I’m sure it couldn’t have been easy to be a player or even a coach. I just don’t know that the team was fully prepared to face a team like Cincinnati
Mannion McGinley | Friday, October 1, 2021
The ACC, SEC, Big 12, Pac 12 and Big 10. Schools from each of these Power 5 conferences are ranked every week in things like their sports, their academics, their social life, and their alumni network. In all of these conversations, the schools are represented by their logos, an ever present, easily recognizable symbol for
Mannion McGinley, Nate Moller, Aidan Thomas, Colin Capece, Emily DeFazio and Jimmy Ward | Friday, October 1, 2021
The Notre Dame Fighting Irish will take on the Cincinnati Bearcats at 2:30 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 2. The Observer staff takes to their sixth sense again as they lay out their predictions for the game. Mannion McGinley – Sports Editor Cincinnati will not be an easy test this weekend. Yes, I sound like a
Mannion McGinley | Wednesday, September 29, 2021
For anyone who has said that defense doesn’t win big games in reference to Notre Dame football: I give you the 2021 Shamrock Series. This current defense could run circles around the Irish defense from week one. I mean, twice now we’ve seen the Irish head into a game that should’ve been the closest game
Mannion McGinley | Saturday, September 25, 2021
The Irish got off to a slow start Saturday, as the the squad stepped out of the tunnel a couple of moments after Leprechaun Pat and the rest of the cheer squad took off with the flag. The momentum progressively picked up, though, as the Irish ran Wisconsin out of Soldier Field in the second
Mannion McGinley, Jimmy Ward, Aidan Thomas, Colin Capece, Emily DeFazio and Nate Moller | Friday, September 17, 2021
Digging in: Veteran Jarrett Patterson leads Irish’s inexperienced offensive line Details, details, details: Hinish cites tackles and small tweaks for Purdue success DeFazio: 2021 is NOT the new 2020 Thomas: History says Purdue battle is a pivotal moment in the 2021 season Boilermakers excited for challenge, looking to pass attack for upset Staff Predictions Head-to-Head
Mannion McGinley | Friday, September 17, 2021
In his fifth and final season as a starting Notre Dame defensive lineman, Irish graduate student Kurt Hinish is one of the longest-standing pillars on Notre Dame’s defensive roster. As one of the seven captains in his final season, Hinish has taken the weight of the season directly onto his shoulders. That is at least