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Sarah Kikel | Monday, October 5, 2020
Breen-Phillips (1939): Best dressed After the 1940s, Notre Dame’s dorm architecture began an unfortunate descent into a style combining the worst aspects of lego pieces and a slab of concrete. However, BP was fortunately built before that, featuring dormers and protruding bay windows despite being built in a record-breaking 165 days at the end of
Observer Sports Staff | Friday, May 1, 2020
Although we are months away from the college football season kicking off, the Observer Sports Department has previewed each and every game for the Notre Dame Fighting Irish in 2020. While the season may be pushed back due to uncertainties surrounding COVID-19, we operated under the assumption that the season would go on as planned.
Observer Sports Staff | Wednesday, April 8, 2020
Notable ESPN college football analyst Kirk Herbstreit drew many headlines, as well as Notre Dame head coach Brian Kelly’s ire, for admitting that he would be “shocked” if there was football this fall due to the lack of a coronavirus vaccine. In the spirit of the Easter season, however, the Sports Department of The Observer
Connor Mulvena | Wednesday, December 4, 2019
Irish fans thinking they could escape the brutal weather of South Bend in the hills of Palo Alto, California, were sadly mistaken last Saturday. It was a dreary, cold and rainy afternoon, one which felt like it was missing a little energy one might expect during rivalry week. Stanford’s tailgating scene was certainly far different
Jack Concannon | Friday, November 29, 2019
The Stanford Cardinal are preparing to wrap up what has been a difficult season on Saturday playing host to the Irish. The program will go bowl-ineligible for the first time in 11 years and has failed to win eight games for the first time since David Shaw was hired in 2011. He finds himself in
Hayden Adams | Friday, November 15, 2019
Every Notre Dame football season features a few matchups between the Irish and their rivals. Whenever those games rear their heads, it brings to mind memories of games and seasons gone by. Whenever the Irish gear up for archrival USC, the older generation may remember when the Trojans spoiled Notre Dame’s title hopes in 1964
Observer Sports Staff | Tuesday, August 27, 2019
Notre Dame men’s basketball added to their already promising sophomore class with the addition of Stanford transfer Cormac Ryan. Ryan was first reported as entering the transfer portal on June 5 and officially committed Friday to the Irish. A graduate of Milton Academy in Milton, Massachusetts, Ryan was highly touted throughout his prep career, entering
Elizabeth Greason | Tuesday, April 2, 2019
CHICAGO — As a great 21st-century philosopher once said, “The third quarter is ours and will always be ours.” That philosopher was the one and only Irish senior guard Marina Mabrey, ever-confident in her team’s ability to pull through, no matter the circumstances, whether down by 12 at halftime in the 2018 national championship — when she
Joe Everett | Monday, October 1, 2018
The date was Nov. 25, 2017. The scene was Notre Dame versus Stanford in Palo Alto, California. The time was 1:23 left in the third quarter. Notre Dame’s Justin Yoon had just kicked a field goal to put the Irish ahead 20-17, and the Irish went back on defense — one quarter away from a
Charlotte Edmonds | Friday, September 28, 2018
Notre Dame head coach Brian Kelly addressed many of the looming questions heading into the team’s matchup against Stanford on Saturday in Thursday’s press conference, most notably, the quarterback question. “We’ve prepared both quarterbacks,” Kelly said of senior Brandon Wimbush and junior Ian Book. “They’re both ready to play and you know, we think that