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Observer Sports Staff | Tuesday, August 17, 2021
Former Notre Dame fencing assistant coach Anthony “Buckie” Leach died Saturday at 62, USA Fencing reported Monday. Leach had been with the Irish since the 2016-17 season. During his time with the program, the Irish had won three ACC championships and national titles and featured 20 All-Americans. Leach died Saturday night following a motorcycle accident
Evan McKenna, Chris Russo, Uyen Le and Maggie Clark | Monday, October 12, 2020
Famous for his stadium-silencing lead-in — “May I have your attention, please?” — and punny public safety messages, “Notre Dame game day legend” Tim McCarthy passed away at the age of 89 earlier this month. Former sergeant of the Indiana Police Department, McCarthy served as Notre Dame’s voice of traffic safety for 55 years. He
Letter to the Editor | Tuesday, March 19, 2019
Fighting Irish Students, Welcome back from spring break! Your Fighting Irish hockey team hosts the Big Ten Tournament Championship game this Saturday night at the Compton Family Ice Arena. We are fortunate that our pursuit of the conference tournament championship — and the NCAA tournament — will be right here on home ice. We can count on you
Andrew Cameron | Tuesday, September 27, 2016
When junior Connor Devine began selling T-shirts with the slogan “It’s Fine, I’m Fine” in the wake of the Irish’s disappointing loss to Michigan State, he said he expected his “really good friends and maybe some other people that [he] hung out with occasionally” to buy them. He said he was expecting to sell “maybe
Courtney Becker | Friday, September 23, 2016
For junior Joe Fennessy, being the Notre Dame leprechaun is the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. “I didn’t really have too much of a purpose freshman year,” he said. “I went to sports all the time. They used to count points for going to sports, so I came second in the
Courtney Becker | Friday, September 16, 2016
It’s not just members of the athletic department who help craft the Notre Dame fan experience. A group of 24 passionate Notre Dame fans make up the ND Fan Council, a diverse group of Notre Dame athletics fan who work with the athletic department to enhance the Notre Dame experience for students and visiting fans
Miko Malabute | Wednesday, October 14, 2015
Following what I had deemed as the best — if not most bittersweet — episode in the “A Season With Notre Dame Football” series, it was going to be interesting to see how the Showtime producers would respond. After all, despite the awful taste of defeat in the mouths of Irish football, there was no denying that
Letter to the Editor | Monday, September 14, 2015
I came to campus this weekend excited for a football game; I left uplifted by the spirit of the Fighting Irish that extends beyond Notre Dame stadium. After taking Fr. Tom Streit’s Common Human Diseases class freshman year, I co-founded ND Fighting NTDs, the first university club dedicated to supporting the global effort to control
Miko Malabute | Monday, September 7, 2015
Leading up to the season-opening game, fans were filled with excitement, anticipation and a small dose of anxiety pumping through their veins. Following Notre Dame’s 38-3 victory over the Texas Longhorns, the Irish faithful were ecstatic, excited and relieved in what was a start-to-finish dominating performance. However, there is no true time for rest, as fans are refilled with
Observer Sports Staff | Monday, April 6, 2015
With its 66-65 win over South Carolina on Sunday night, Notre Dame advanced to its second straight NCAA championship game and its fourth in the last five years. Including Tuesday’s title tilt, the Irish have been to the NCAA championship five times in program history, winning once in 2001. Those five appearances puts them in