SOUTH BEND, Ind. (AP) -- Little-used guard Ty Proffitt has withdrawn from Notre Dame and plans to transfer to another school.
SOUTH BEND, Ind. (AP) -- Notre Dame tight end Mike Ragone, expected to vie for the starting position, will miss the season after undergoing surgery Friday for a torn anterior cruciate ligament in his left knee.
The Notre Dame basketball team left Tuesday for a 13-day, six-game trip to Ireland with a mission of getting younger players playing time, letting older players work on their skills and making sure everyone has fun.
Notre Dame coach Charlie Weis is done talking about last season. Who can blame him?
The final paragraph of last week's Mailbag succeeded in lighting a fire under our friends from the West Coast, many of whom offered theories as to why "Pac-10 [Mailbag] submissions are so minimal it's embarrassing" (I'll share a couple of those later), others of whom took heed and fired off Pac-10 related questions.
Joe Montana can't help himself. Standing on the sidelines of Maranatha High, a Hail Mary pass away from the Rose Bowl, the Super Bowl legend is stretching his arms out and continuously licking his fingers before getting his hands on a football.
Could the fourth time be the charm to knock off three-time defending national champion Northwestern? Perhaps. The Wildcats' 36-game win streak dating back to last season was broken by Penn when mental breakdowns and lackluster plays kept Northwestern from getting past the Quakers' tough defense.
In the spring a young man's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of . . . blitz pickups?
Of the 80,149 who packed Memorial Stadium last Saturday for Nebraska's spring game, the group of ticket holders milling around the field during pre-game warmups mattered most. Several dozen recruits mingled with current Cornhuskers, former Cornhuskers and future Cornhuskers (the class of 2008 signees) before taking their seats and marveling at the fact that fans packed the house for a scrimmage.
SOUTH BEND, Ind. -- Some 30,000 sets of expectant eyes at Notre Dame Stadium probably didn't grasp what they saw last Saturday, the precise meaning of the football cutting its parabolic, ground-to-air-to-ground path over more than 60 yards of turf.
SOUTH BEND, Ind. (AP) -- Little-used guard Ty Proffitt has withdrawn from Notre Dame and plans to transfer to another school.
SOUTH BEND, Ind. (AP) -- Notre Dame tight end Mike Ragone, expected to vie for the starting position, will miss the season after undergoing surgery Friday for a torn anterior cruciate ligament in his left knee.
The Notre Dame basketball team left Tuesday for a 13-day, six-game trip to Ireland with a mission of getting younger players playing time, letting older players work on their skills and making sure everyone has fun.
Notre Dame coach Charlie Weis is done talking about last season. Who can blame him?
The final paragraph of last week's Mailbag succeeded in lighting a fire under our friends from the West Coast, many of whom offered theories as to why "Pac-10 [Mailbag] submissions are so minimal it's embarrassing" (I'll share a couple of those later), others of whom took heed and fired off Pac-10 related questions.
Joe Montana can't help himself. Standing on the sidelines of Maranatha High, a Hail Mary pass away from the Rose Bowl, the Super Bowl legend is stretching his arms out and continuously licking his fingers before getting his hands on a football.
Could the fourth time be the charm to knock off three-time defending national champion Northwestern? Perhaps. The Wildcats' 36-game win streak dating back to last season was broken by Penn when mental breakdowns and lackluster plays kept Northwestern from getting past the Quakers' tough defense.
In the spring a young man's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of . . . blitz pickups?
Of the 80,149 who packed Memorial Stadium last Saturday for Nebraska's spring game, the group of ticket holders milling around the field during pre-game warmups mattered most. Several dozen recruits mingled with current Cornhuskers, former Cornhuskers and future Cornhuskers (the class of 2008 signees) before taking their seats and marveling at the fact that fans packed the house for a scrimmage.
SOUTH BEND, Ind. -- Some 30,000 sets of expectant eyes at Notre Dame Stadium probably didn't grasp what they saw last Saturday, the precise meaning of the football cutting its parabolic, ground-to-air-to-ground path over more than 60 yards of turf.
It's a wonder Notre Dame's Kyle McAlarney doesn't have a neck cramp. Since the media arrived in Denver this Tuesday, the 6-foot-4 junior guard has been asked repeatedly to look forward: What are your impressions of Washington State's point guard? How far do you expect to go in the tournament? And then, of course, backward: What was it like having to watch last year's tournament? Was there ever a thought that you weren't going to come back?
TAMPA, Fla. -- The men's assistant poked his head in the door of the office shared by the Notre Dame women's basketball assistants one day in 1995. He approached the tall brunette who had starred in the post for the Fighting Irish a few years earlier. He spoke.
STORRS, Conn. -- He spent the final 17.3 seconds of the game with a wad of cotton jammed up his right nostril, looking like a cruiserweight pugilist who had taken, and subsequently shaken off, a shot to the schnoz. A.J. Price was in that bloodied state courtesy of an inadvertently placed, late foul by Notre Dame heavyweight Luke Harangody -- "it was a big forearm," Price said -- with the score 82-78 in UConn's favor.
Give us your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free -- and anyone sick of going 5-7.
NEW YORK (AP) -- James Easter Heathman, the teenager who raced to a field near his family's central Kansas farm to find the plane crash that killed Notre Dame football coach Knute Rockne, has died. He was 90.
My kingdom for some taxi receipts.
For Mike Brey, the recruiting trip was not going to be easy.
Let's start with a fairly obvious realization: Charlie Weis is a terrible college football coach.
Six games into the season, it's time to crown your Halfway Heisman winner. Sorry, no all-expenses paid trips to New York, no late-night partying at The Box for the finalists, no painfully long ESPN programming for a 10-second announcement. Let's just cut to the chase.
The panic seems to have subsided, as Notre Dame has settled into its abysmal football autumn. The outrage and shock that ensued as the Fighting Irish went 0-2, then 0-3 has faded into something resembling a quiet, embarrassed acceptance. During coach Charlie Weis' long, weekly press conference Tuesday afternoon in South Bend, 26 questions were asked before the big-picture issue -- Notre Dame already has its worst start in history -- was broached. And quickly, it was left behind, for 15 more questions about wideouts and special teams.
SOUTH BEND, Ind. (AP) -- Notre Dame is winless, not hopeless.
SOUTH BEND, Ind. (AP) -- It's easy to understand why Notre Dame is 0-3 for the second time in school history. The Fighting Irish are last in the nation in rushing offense and total offense, are among the worst teams at stopping the run and have nearly twice as many punts as they do points.
SOUTH BEND, Ind. (AP) -- A man posted on the Internet a video showing how he sneaked into Notre Dame Stadium before the Georgia Tech game by posing as a Roman Catholic priest, prompting the university to re-emphasize its security procedures.
Injured Michigan quarterback Chad Henne will not play against Notre Dame.
STATE COLLEGE, Pa. (AP) -- The blue team school buses lined up Sunday morning outside quiet Beaver Stadium. Tailback Austin Scott and No. 17 Penn State had unfinished business before they could shift their focus to Notre Dame.
SOUTH BEND, Ind. (AP) -- Notre Dame defensive lineman Derrell Hand, arrested last month on a misdemeanor charge of propositioning a prostitute, will be allowed to play for the Fighting Irish after serving a three-game suspension imposed by coach Charlie Weis.
SOUTH BEND, Ind. (AP) -- Notre Dame quarterback Jimmy Clausen, talking with reporters for the first time since arriving on campus last January, confirmed Friday he underwent arthroscopic surgery this past spring to remove a bone spur from his throwing arm.
Roughly midway through a public Saturday morning workout at Notre Dame Stadium, the Fighting Irish offense approached the line of scrimmage near the north end zone, readying for another minimal-contact play against a scout-team defense.
Editor's note: We asked SI.com writers to share their memories from the best game they've ever seen. Here are their stories:
Editor's note: We asked SI.com writers to share their memories from the best game they've ever seen. Here are their stories:
Larry Coker inherited a tremendous group of players at Miami when he took over for Butch Davis in 2001.
Year Five of the Mailbag is officially under way. Please take your seats.
The Notre Dame coaching staff has compiled a solid group of 10 early commitments for its 2008 recruiting class.
Even those who ply their trade in the comparison business are occasionally subject to comparisons. Just don't expect Mel Kiper Jr. and Mike Mayock, the NFL draft television gurus of the moment, to file a scouting report on each other. "The comparisons are ridiculous," says Kiper, who has covered the NFL draft for ESPN since 1984. "Mike does what he does, and he does it the way he does it. I do it the way I do it. Zillions of others do it the way they do it. I don't have anything negative to say about anybody out there who puts out a draft report or covers the draft. They are obviously working hard. To see Mike Mayock and other people out there, I applaud that. I applaud that Mike Mayock is in the business.''
Imagine the sales pitch that might have been delivered in the long hallways of a Ministry of U.S. Sports Culture not very long ago: O.K., how about this for a television event. The commissioner of the NFL stands at a podium in the middle of a stage. Every few minutes he reads out, in a businesslike monotone, the name of a collegian who has been selected to play for an NFL team. "With the first pick ..." and so forth. No music, no special effects. Just the commissioner and the microphone. Trust me. It'll kill.
SI.com's Adam Hofstetter spent a day last week with top NFL Draft prospects, Adrian Peterson and Brady Quinn. Below is a recap of his time with Quinn. Here's his story about Peterson.
In mid-April everyone's trying to figure out who will go where in the NFL Draft? But let's not lose sight of the question that really matters: Who will be doing what come mid-October? After checking sources around the league, these are five names I expect to be writing plenty of good things about come the 2007 regular season:
This article originally appeared in Sports Illustrated on December 1, 1997.
PHOENIX -- Oakland Raiders rookie head coach Lane Kiffin admitted Tuesday morning that when he watches LSU quarterback JaMarcus Russell play football, he thinks of John Madden.
SI.com caught up with Seth Davis, who's serving as a CBS studio analyst during the tournament, to get his impressions of Friday's tournament action.
The city of Rock Hill, S.C., the home of Winthrop University, closed early Friday. Public workers went to work at 5:30 a.m. so they could be off at 2:30 p.m. and see their Eagles take on Notre Dame. And what a game they saw. Behind by seven late in the first half, the Eagles surged to a 54-34 lead in the second. Then, as their supporters back home watched in horror (we imagine) Notre Dame took a one-point lead with a little over two minutes to go. The Eagles, the best team Winthrop has had to date, appeared to be in danger of reprising last year's heartbreak, when Tennessee beat them in the first round in the last seconds. "When Notre Dame caught up again, that was the turning point of the game for us," guard Torrell Martin said. "We all looked at each other and said, 'Not again.'"
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Attention all of you office-poolers out there who follow college basketball for one month out of the year (and then only because you threw $10 in with your bracket). I come to you today with some quick primers on how to fill out this year's entry.
Underrated: Oregon It was easy to dismiss the Ducks during the middle of the Pac-10 season when their defensive deficiencies were glaring and the losses piled up, but Ernie Kent's crew has righted the ship while adding even more weapons on the offensive end. How many guys can score on you? Let's see: Aaron Brooks, Bryce Taylor, Malik Hairston and Tajuan Porter. What's more, Maarty Leunen is just the sort of rebounding wide-body big man who'll make things tough for Notre Dame's Luke Harangody in Round 2 and Wisconsin's Brian Butch-less interior guys in Round 3.
NEW YORK -- Eric Devendorf admits he's been a little nervous lately about his team's NCAA tournament status.
It's a Mata-Matta world -- in that order -- at the top of the regular season's final Power Rankings.
The annual rite of winter in pro football -- picking apart draft prospects -- was heating up last weekend at the sweatshop known as the NFL scouting combine. The two top candidates to go No. 1 on April 28, quarterbacks JaMarcus Russell and Brady Quinn, were getting it with both barrels, from the media and from scouts and coaches whispering among themselves. Quinn couldn't win the big one at Notre Dame, wasn't accurate enough, threw three or four brain-lock passes a game. Needed a haircut too. LSU's Russell was a little doughy at his weigh-in (265 pounds on his 6'5 1/2" frame), didn't have Quinn's college experience, isn't particularly mobile or consistent in his mechanics and -- this one from NFL Network analyst Mike Mayock -- might not have the work ethic or love for the game to justify the guaranteed $30 million the top pick will command this year.
SI.com's Kevin Armstrong went behind the scenes with the ESPN College GameDay crew last Saturday. From production meetings, to 15 minutes with Erin Andrews and everything that goes into preparing the gang of Rece Davis, Jay Bilas, Hubert Davis and Digger Phelps, he saw it all. Here is his report.
Florida defensive line coach Greg Mattison picked up his ringing cellphone and leaped from behind his desk. It was two days before national signing day, and a recruit he'd been eager to hear from was on the line. As he spoke, Mattison looked out his window as a crane broke ground on a $28 million upgrade of the school's football facilities. On his office wall hung two rows of freshly mounted photographs from the Gators' 41-14 victory over Ohio State in the BCS National Championship Game. "So what do you think?" Mattison excitedly asked. "Are you ready to jump in with the Number 1 class in the country?"
Also in this column: • Signing Day Awards
A charismatic, uber-energetic head coach takes over a tradition-rich program fallen on hard times. Despite a rocky first season, he manages to take the recruiting world by storm, convincing a host of elite prospects from around the country they can step in and play right away. Then, after leading his team to a surprisingly successful second season, he takes his recruiting dominance to an even higher level to the point where he's now basically cherry-picking whichever five-star prospects he desires.
You have to win your way into the NCAA tournament, not back in. Thus, if you end up being a bubble team Selection weekend, it's important to have what I call a "hang-your-hat win."
Let the chomping begin.
Jeff Samardzija decided to give up football and stay with baseball.
Even by the standards of today's message-board, short-attention-span, instant-gratification, what-have-you-done-for-me-lately, 24/7 media culture, the cacophony of criticism directed at sophomores Greg Paulus and A.J. Price is a tad extreme. Yes, the intense scrutiny comes with the territory when you play point guard at Duke and UConn, respectively. Even so, a tiny bit of perspective is in order.
ATLANTA (SI.com) -- LSU junior quarterback JaMarcus Russell will announce his decision regarding the NFL draft at a Wednesday morning news conference, several outlets are reporting.
NEW ORLEANS -- To Charlie Weis, it wasn't a compliment, it was the compliment that the Notre Dame coach shared with a small group of reporters as he spoke about Brady Quinn.
Here's a question all true Domers can answer: Where were you on Oct. 21, at the very moment Brady Quinn executed his celebrated pump fake, then found Jeff Samardzija over the middle in the waning moments against UCLA in a game the Bruins deserved to win, but did not.
As the nation tunes in to the Sugar Bowl tonight, NFL scouts will be watching closely as well. While Notre Dame and LSU duke it out, the quarterbacks of each team will be auditioning in what could be a hotly contested battle to see who will become the No. 1 pick in April's NFL draft.
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