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Luke Thompson | Tuesday, April 20, 2021
Since the news broke this past Sunday, millions around the world have lamented the obvious cash grab some of the top European soccer clubs made with their decision to join together to form a European Super League. The move — which has drawn harsh criticism from high profile world leaders and ordinary fans alike —
Observer Sports Staff | Tuesday, February 23, 2021
Despite the college football season wrapping up well over a month ago, Notre Dame continues to make a splash — this time, becoming the first school to temporarily withdraw their participation from EA Sports’ new college football video game. On Feb. 2, the sports video game developer announced the return of its college football series
Observer Sports Staff | Friday, December 18, 2020
We’re less than a week away from the College Football Playoff Committee announcing the field of four vying for the national championship. To preview that, Sports Editor Hayden Adams takes turns with members of the Observer Roundtable — Nate Moller (0:57), Patrick Gallagher (16:52), Dominic Gibson (32:23), Aidan Thomas (40:14) and Liam Coolican (57:06) —
Jimmy Ward | Friday, December 4, 2020
I won’t be the first person on planet earth to claim to know anything about how the College Football Playoff committee works. But in my gut I am fairly certain of one thing: Notre Dame makes the playoff no matter how sloppy their loss to Clemson in the ACC Championship. I’ll be ignoring plenty of
Aidan Thomas, Patrick Gallagher, Nate Moller, Liam Coolican and Dominic Gibson | Wednesday, November 11, 2020
Well, here we are: the last Observer Roundtable picks for college and pro football. But don’t cry because it’s over; smile because it happened. And smile even wider because we’re doing special “future picks.” For college football we have the Power 5 Conference Championships (1 point for each correctly picked participant, plus 1 for picking
Nate Moller, Patrick Gallagher, Aidan Thomas, Liam Coolican and Dominic Gibson | Friday, November 6, 2020
Last week saw a lot of blowouts, and as such, upset picks were difficult to come by. None of our writers successfully notched an upset prediction, leading to a low scoring week. For the second straight week, Nate Moller was our highest scorer, collecting nine of 12 possible points outside the upset prediction. He’s challenging
Hayden Adams | Monday, October 26, 2020
Bet you thought you’d seen the last of these. Well no sir/madame. I’m back and still lamenting Kentucky football cause the heartbreak never stops. Enjoy! 1. Aren’t you glad Notre Dame doesn’t lose to unranked teams? Yes, it’s become a bit of a moral victory at this point, considering the Irish can’t seem to get
Aidan Thomas, Patrick Gallagher, Liam Coolican, Nate Moller and Dominic Gibson | Friday, October 23, 2020
Notre Dame is a Catholic university. But if there’s ever a time to believe in the football gods, it’s right now. Last week, sportswriter Patrick Gallagher hit on his fifth straight upset pick (underdogs of at least 7 points), with yet another double-digit underdog pulling through, as he continues to expand his lead on his
Dominic Gibson, Liam Coolican, Nate Moller, Patrick Gallagher and Aidan Thomas | Friday, October 16, 2020
Patrick Gallagher – 68 points (14) Liam Coolican – 57 points (16) Dominic Gibson – 44 points (INACTIVE) Nate Moller – 44 points (12) Aidan Thomas – 41 points (5) NCAAF #3 Georgia @ #2 Alabama (-5.0) Boston College @ #23 Virginia Tech (-11.0) UCF (-3.0) @ Memphis NFL Chicago Bears @ Carolina
Hayden Adams | Monday, October 12, 2020
This is becoming a weekly tradition at this point, but what the heck? I get to write about, and you get to read about, college football. Take that, COVID. And no, there will not be any Kentucky football discussion. I’ll give everyone a respite for at least a week. So let’s get to it. 1.