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-17 posts tagged "Game Day"
Gabriel Ibarra | Monday, September 12, 2022
As the school year is quickly ramping up, so is the Fighting Irish football season. However, one thing that is painful to admit to many of my friends this weekend, and now to you, the reader of this column, is that I have never been to a Notre Dame football game before. I know, I
Colin Capece | Friday, August 27, 2021
For a long time now, I’ve been wanting to rank something in The Observer. Since the day I discovered in these pages the introspective yet comedic brilliance of master ranker and former Dunne Hall RA Davis Gonsalves, I was inspired to invoke the kind of spicy verbal mudslinging amongst the Notre Dame student body and
Mannion McGinley | Tuesday, September 15, 2020
To the group of 12 that sat in the row directly in front of me at the game and to others who made a similar decision: That was selfish. You and I both know you don’t live together, and we know you shouldn’t be taking your masks off to talk to each other, but sure,
Isabella Volmert | Monday, September 14, 2020
Notre Dame football returned Saturday with a win over Duke in Notre Dame Stadium on a game day like no other. With the campus largely closed off to spectators and fans, many traditions were banned or modified for the highly anticipated weekend. Students shared their experiences of the historic season opener with The Observer. First-years
Nate Moller | Wednesday, September 9, 2020
In a Sports Authority I wrote a couple of weeks ago, I predicted that college football would not happen in 2020. At the time it seemed reasonable, considering the Big Ten and Pac-12 had recently cancelled their season. COVID-19 was spreading rampantly around Notre Dame and other college campuses, and even professional sports were struggling
Thomas Diehl | Tuesday, January 21, 2020
When I visited Notre Dame during the summer of my junior year of high school, it was nothing short of memorable. The tulips around the Basilica’s Jesus Statue had fully bloomed as the Golden Dome radiated sunlight on this 60 degree day. The grass was perfectly cut in a pattern without a blade out of
Maeve Filbin | Friday, November 15, 2019
Clarissa Dalloway’s will open its doors once again, Saturday, Nov. 23, to provide students with free food and hot beverages following the Notre Dame vs. Boston College football game. Saint Mary’s Student Government Association (SGA) announced this event in a Nov. 6 email and Google form polling students on what kind of food and drinks
Chelsey Boyle | Friday, October 11, 2019
At 7:30 a.m. on a Saturday morning, Notre Dame’s campus prepares for the coming football game. Tailgates are set up, families are walking around campus and students are planning for the long day to come, hopeful for another Irish victory. But outside Hesburgh Library, a different type of spectacle can be observed: St. Edward’s Hall
Letter to the Editor | Wednesday, October 3, 2018
It started because my friend wore shorts to the Stanford game. Well, actually, it probably started at a tailgate an hour or two earlier, but I entered the narrative when my shorts-wearing friend turned to me and asked, “Is someone … pouring something out? Behind us?” Unfortunately, there was no one pouring something behind us.
Letter to the Editor | Friday, August 25, 2017
On Wednesday morning, I learned that Notre Dame is selling its game day experiences. And not figuratively: per WNDU, Notre Dame is charging U.S. dollars for the “opportunity to slap the ‘Play Like a Champion Today’ sign and get a picture on the field the day before the game, a tour of the press box and