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Go Irish, beat imposter syndrome

Andrew McGuinness | Monday, March 27, 2023

What is your first memory? It’s probably something very random. But maybe it provided a hint about the person you will become — your interests, your personality, a glimpse into the future and the past all at once. My first memory is not that. It’s going to preschool or daycare and being excited they had

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McGuinness: The power of great sports journalism

Andrew McGuinness | Wednesday, March 22, 2023

The music had faded. My parents had been called. Some 1,100 miles away, more champagne than any college student could fathom was about to be sprayed. The moment that had been 4,014 days in the making had already happened. But there was still one more thing I needed to see for it all to sink

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300+ stories later, I’m almost out of words

Aidan Thomas | Wednesday, February 22, 2023

It turned out that a week of sleepless nights in December of 2021, just a few months before I began as Sports Editor, was just some foreshadowing to a wild year that defined a significant part of my college experience. While the resignation of Brian Kelly and ensuing hire of Marcus Freeman remained one of