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Aidan Thomas | Wednesday, March 8, 2023
The NCAA Women’s Basketball Tournament is generally less prone to upsets than the men’s tournament. But as the depth and talent in the field increase the parity of the event, upsets are beginning to happen with more frequency. Just last year, four teams sitting on the 11 and 12-seed lines won their opening game. Two
Matthew Crow | Wednesday, October 5, 2022
The cost of firing a head coach in today’s college football landscape is higher than ever. Massive buyout payments that come with the early termination of a contract means that schools pay millions of dollars just to get their coaches to leave. After his exit in 2021, former LSU coach Ed Orgeron received a buyout
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
Jose Sanchez Cordova | Monday, June 20, 2022
There’s no way to sugarcoat it — Sunday night’s game against Oklahoma was a bad day for Notre Dame baseball. Head coach Link Jarrett summarized it well with his opening remark of the postgame press conference. “They outplayed us in essentially every phase of the game,” Jarrett said. The Irish used seven pitchers in a
J.J. Post | Monday, June 20, 2022
Notre Dame suffered its first loss at the 2022 College World Series Sunday night, falling to Oklahoma 6-2. In a reverse of what gave the Irish the edge in prior matchups against Texas and Tennessee, Notre Dame’s bats ran cold for the majority of Sunday’s contest against the Sooners. Oklahoma struggled early at the plate
Jose Sanchez Cordova | Thursday, June 16, 2022
Notre Dame baseball is headed to the College World Series for the third time in program history and the first time since 2002. It is the culmination of a remarkable resurgence for the Irish baseball program since head coach Link Jarrett arrived ahead of the 2020 season. Since then, Notre Dame has the second-best winning
Aidan Thomas | Thursday, June 16, 2022
The eight teams in the College World Series, aren‘t the same teams originally seeded in the top-8 spots — the Irish made sure at least one would be different. Considering their regional and super regional performances, these are the College World Series teams reseeded with players to watch, strengths and weaknesses. Arkansas Out of the
Greg McKenna | Monday, March 21, 2022
There were plenty of empty seats when Notre Dame downed UMass in Norman, Oklahoma, with an offensive blitz Saturday night in the first round of the NCAA Tournament. Most of those will likely be filled Monday night, and a majority of people packed in the Lloyd Noble Center won’t be rooting for Notre Dame when
Sam Ouhaj, J.J. Post, Thomas Zwiller, Jamison Cook and Matt Smith | Friday, November 12, 2021
After a week of close games, the College Football Championship is up for almost anyone, granted you’re not on the committees’ bad side. Despite the jokes that have been circulating online, we are in for a fantastic week of games this weekend with a few match ups that can once again alter the rankings. Let’s