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-Nate Moller | Friday, December 6, 2019
Notre Dame will kick off the indoor season this Friday in the Loftus Sports Center with the Blue and Gold Invitational. Director of track and field Matt Sparks said the team will use the meet to get baseline times and as a warmup for future meets. “It’s a pre-test to see where we are,” Sparks
Nate Moller | Friday, November 22, 2019
Xavier Lezynski has a long list of family members who have played for Notre Dame football and attended the University — including his great-grandfather who played under Knute Rockne, his uncle who was on the 1977 National Championship team, his parents who were both Irish student-athletes and two other uncles. Most recently, his sister was
Nate Moller | Friday, November 22, 2019
Men’s basketball defeated the Toledo Rockets of the MAC 64-62 in an overtime thriller last night at the Purcell Pavilion. In a game that saw horrible shooting by both teams, the Irish made enough big plays on defense by the end to secure the victory. Sophomore guard Dane Goodwin led the Irish with 16 points,
Aidan Thomas, Nate Moller, Liam Coolican, Dominic Gibson, Patrick Gallagher and David Kramer | Friday, November 22, 2019
Dallas Cowboys @ New England Patriots (-6.5) Green Bay Packers @ San Francisco 49ers (-3) Baltimore Ravens @ Los Angeles Rams (+2.5) David Kramer: America’s Team facing off against the reigning champions makes for an electric atmosphere this weekend in Foxborough. Dallas sends arguably the most fluid and multifaceted offense of the Pats’ schedule to
Nate Moller | Wednesday, November 20, 2019
The men’s and women’s cross country squads both qualified for the NCAA Cross Country Championships thanks to their performances at the Great Lakes Regional this past Friday. The men’s team placed second, which handed them an automatic qualification, and the women placed fifth to receive an at-large bid to the meet. The men’s side was
Nate Moller | Tuesday, November 19, 2019
Senior linebacker Jonathan Jones may not have ended up at Notre Dame if God hadn’t led him here. Jones was considering multiple schools, but there were multiple signs that told him that Notre Dame was the right fit for him. “Every big decision in life, I pray and ask God for guidance to take me
Nate Moller | Friday, November 15, 2019
Both cross country teams will compete in the NCAA Great Lakes Regional this Friday in Madison, Wisconsin. The stakes will be high when the gun goes off, as both teams try to build confidence and qualify for the national meet. The top two teams in the regional will qualify automatically for the national meet, but
Patrick Gallagher, Mannion McGinley, Greg McKenna, Inigo Yturralde, Colin Capece and Nate Moller | Tuesday, November 12, 2019
Dania Abdul Rahman vs. Mia Lecinski match skipped Carly “The Wall” Hall def. Hallie “Hail Storm” Truett The first bout of the night began as Hall, a sophomore in Pasquerilla East, attempted to land a torrent of punches to some avail. Truett, a senior in Howard Hall, countered with a powerful hit to Hall’s
Nate Moller | Tuesday, November 12, 2019
Head coach Mike Brey will see a few familiar faces on the sideline Tuesday night when his team tips off against Howard. Howard’s head coach, Kenneth Blakeney, was an assistant under Brey at the University of Delaware. His assistant coach is former Irish player Eric Atkins who graduated in 2014. Atkins was a major part
Aidan Thomas, Dominic Gibson, David Kramer, Liam Coolican, Nate Moller and Patrick Gallagher | Friday, November 8, 2019
We’re back with another edition of The Observer Roundtable predictions. For the first time in AP Poll history, we have a pair of battles between 8-0 squads, so we will all take our cracks at those games. All of us will be looking for better success in our upset picks, after we went a clean