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Miller: Is Colorado still ‘living a lie’?

Jake Miller | Friday, September 15, 2023

While I don’t totally understand it, I love the hype around Deion Sanders’ Colorado Buffaloes. The Buffaloes have won eight or fewer games in 19 of the past 20 years, with the average coming out to around 4.5 wins per season. Since 2000, no Power Five program has seen less success on the gridiron than

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‘Ugly, vulgar and tawdry’: Reviewing the worst movie ever made about Notre Dame

Ryan Peters | Friday, September 15, 2023

Notre Dame has a certain mystique. The Golden Dome, Notre Dame Stadium, Basilica bells, Touchdown Jesus, haunted buildings, the Grotto. Just walk around campus and you’ll feel it.  So it’s no surprise Notre Dame is a favorite choice of Hollywood when it comes to colleges. “Rudy” speaks for itself, and President Jed Bartlet in “The

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Herko: NFL Week 1 (over)reactions

Annika Herko | Wednesday, September 13, 2023

New York Knicks Trending on ‘X’ after Giants and Jets Games It was a football weekend with highs and lows in New York City. The Giants and Jets were two of the most talked about teams going into the season, but both games saw New York fans with varying amounts of concern for the season.

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Notre Dame cheerleading competes in UCA College National Championship

Peter Breen | Friday, May 19, 2023

From the beginning of football in August to the end of the men’s and women’s basketball in March or April, the Notre Dame cheerleading team is standing on the sidelines rooting for the Fighting Irish. The team is composed of 18 female and 18 male cheerleaders along with the four leprechauns. For the past two

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Student committee unveils ‘The Shirt’ 2023 to crowd on campus

Keira Stenson | Monday, April 24, 2023

The Shirt 2023 was revealed Friday afternoon during a ceremony on Library Lawn that featured food trucks, raffles, student group performances and the special guest appearances of head football coach Marcus Freeman and assistant vice president for campus ministry Fr. Pete McCormick. Established in 1990, The Shirt supports two causes: students facing unexpected medical expenses

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‘Ted Lasso’ Season 3: A beautiful set-up, but can the show finish?

Andrew McGuinness | Friday, April 21, 2023

There is nothing more exciting — or agonizing — in sports than watching a beautiful through ball head into the box. Anticipation rises as each second passes till the ball comes to Earth, and its fate is revealed. It can be exhilarating if finished off, but equally (if not more) devastating if it misses the

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Senate hears executive announcements, clarifies election rules again

Liam Price | Friday, February 3, 2023

The Notre Dame student senate met Wednesday night in a classroom located on the first floor of the Mendoza College of Business. In the meeting, the senate voted to pass a resolution clarifying rules about elections for vacant positions in student governments, denying candidates the opportunity to run if they had resigned or been removed

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Moller: The curse that continues to haunt the Minnesota Vikings

Nate Moller | Thursday, January 26, 2023

The Vikings’ record in one-score games in the regular season: 11-0. The Vikings’ record in one-score games in the playoffs: 0-1. That’s pretty much all that is needed to sum up yet another season that ended in heartbreaking fashion for the Minnesota Vikings. They yet again fell victim to a curse that has haunted their

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Ukrainian exchange students discuss their Notre Dame semester

Kathryn Muchnick | Wednesday, December 7, 2022

In August, 10 students embarked on a long journey taking them from the Eastern Europe to the middle of Indiana. Olha Droniak, a junior from Ivano-Frankivsk, a town about two hours away from Lviv, recalled being very excited about arriving at Notre Dame, but very exhausted by the travel.  “Because of the war, we don’t

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Ten quotes that defined the Notre Dame season

Aidan Thomas | Tuesday, December 6, 2022

“I think we learned that we have a good football team, but we have to learn how to finish.” – Marcus Freeman Freeman said this after Notre Dame’s season-opening 21-10 loss to No. 2 Ohio State. At the time, it felt like the general consensus surrounding the Irish. Notre Dame fell a couple of spots

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This Thursday, Feb. 16, the 93rd annual Bengal Bou This Thursday, Feb. 16, the 93rd annual Bengal Bouts will begin its preliminary rounds. A men’s boxing tournament that benefits the Holy Cross Mission in Bangladesh, Bengal Bouts seems to perfectly combine two integral aspects of Notre Dame’s identity: a passion for sports and a commitment to social impact.

This week, From the Archives takes a long overdue look at the history of Bengal Bouts. While this tournament predates the Observer by nearly four decades, we uncovered a selection of stories that capture at least a part of the rich history of this Notre Dame tradition.

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At Wednesday evening’s senate meeting, Briana Ch At Wednesday evening’s senate meeting, Briana Chappell, director of gender relations and LGBTQ+ advocacy, highlighted plans to edit the Moreau First Year Experience curriculum to promote values of diversity, equity and inclusion in her report on LGBTQ+ advocacy at Notre Dame this year.

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We asked you to Ask The Observer Sports Department We asked you to Ask The Observer Sports Department and you responded with the request: “Northwestern @ Notre Dame 2014 Football Breakdown”. That game was a heartbreaking loss for a Notre Dame team that had started 6-0 before stumbling down the stretch to a 7-5 record. A bowl game win over LSU salvaged some optimism for the program’s future, but that loss to Northwestern was a shocking result that contributed to one of the more appalling stretches of Irish football in the Brian Kelly era.

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Derick Williams and Hunter Brooke, two sophomore s Derick Williams and Hunter Brooke, two sophomore students campaigning to be Notre Dame’s next student body president and vice president, respectively, plan to “get sh*t done.”

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Sophomores Pablo Oropeza and Griffin McAndrew are Sophomores Pablo Oropeza and Griffin McAndrew are seeking to build stronger connections between the student body and student government if elected student body president and vice president, respectively. 

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Notre Dame students might recognize Daniel Jung an Notre Dame students might recognize Daniel Jung and Aidan Rezner from the student government Instagram page, but the two sophomores are ready to take the next big step to represent the student body.

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