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Joseph Tunney | Wednesday, October 5, 2022
5. Texas @ Oklahoma, 12 p.m., ABC, (Texas -7) Sandwiched in between the two weeks of the Texas State fair in Dallas is the Red River Showdown between Texas and Oklahoma. The game is almost guaranteed to be a good one as regardless of the quality of the teams, only one game since 2014 has
Matthew Crow | Wednesday, September 28, 2022
The Big 12 is officially up for grabs Through four weeks of the college football season, we are at the stage where conference hierarchies typically begin to emerge and pecking orders come into focus. At the very least, it should now be clear which teams are legitimate conference championship contenders and which are not. Even
Observer Sports Staff | Tuesday, April 7, 2020
The first half of our Sweet 16 featured two No. 6 seeds that pulled out surprises in the Round of 32, but advancing to the Elite Eight would require another upset. Will it be chalk, or will we see some underdog magic No. 1 Kansas def. No. 4 Wisconsin 80-72 Wisconsin boasts a lot of
Daniel O'Boyle | Tuesday, April 4, 2017
Kansas’s 2013 recruiting class came in with some high expectations. There was Andrew Wiggins, who was expected to be the top overall draft pick in 2014 before he even played a college game, and subsequently was. Joel Embiid, who came in as a five-star center and despite frequent injuries, has become one of the top
Marek Mazurek | Wednesday, February 17, 2016
The NBA All-Star game took place in Toronto this past weekend. I personally went into the NBA’s annual, frenzied regalia thinking that Sting’s performance at halftime would be the best part of the weekend. I was correct to believe that Sting would deliver. However, Sting’s solid performance aside, two fellows named Zach LaVine and Aaron Gordon
Daisy Costello | Monday, October 5, 2015
The Irish look to continue their recent run of success this week at the Chip-N Club Invitational, hosted by Nebraska at the Country Club of Lincoln in Lincoln, Nebraska. The field will play 36 holes Monday and an 18-hole round Tuesday. Notre Dame is coming off two consecutive top-five finishes at the Mary Fossum Invitational in Lansing,
Manuel De Jesus | Thursday, March 19, 2015
For the first time in program history, Notre Dame will compete in the NCAA tournament as an automatic qualifier this Thursday after winning its first ACC championship last Saturday. The No. 8 Irish (29-5, 14-4 ACC) entered the ACC tournament as a three-seed and defeated Miami (Fla.), Duke and North Carolina to win the tournament
Greg Hadley | Monday, December 1, 2014
No. 2 Notre Dame finished off the easiest portion of its schedule with flair Sunday afternoon, racing by Kansas, 89-47, in Uncasville, Connecticut, to finish the Naismith Memorial Hall of Fame Women’s Challenge undefeated. With the win over the Jayhawks (5-2), the Irish (7-0) completed the first half of their non-conference schedule, including victories over six unranked squads.
Kevin Noonan | Monday, March 24, 2014
Did your favorite non-Notre Dame team get knocked out of the NCAA men’s basketball tournament by one of Notre Dame’s traditional football rivals, a stupid school with a stupid mascot, which just may have rejected you outright when you applied as a senior in high school as well? Did the college basketball team of your