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Sports Illustrated December 4, 2001 Ivan Maisel |
Bob Davie's Firing: The End Came at the Start On Dec. 5, 2000, in the wake of Notre Dame's 9-2 regular season, athletic director Kevin White extended coach Bob Davie's $1 million-a-year contract through 2005. On Sunday, three days short of the extension's first anniversary, White fired Davie... |
Sports Central November 9, 2005 Mike Griffenberg |
Notre Dame Not as Good as Advertised However, Notre Dame will be a major player in the college football world as long as Charlie Weis is there, just not this year. |
Salon.com September 27, 2002 Allen Barra |
Notre Dame's return to glory! (Part 23) Why does the college's legendary -- but creaky -- football program have to keep coming back? |
Sports Illustrated December 31, 2001 Ivan Maisel |
Willingham will get the job done After failing in its first attempt to replace Bob Davie, when George O'Leary admitted to lies on his resume, Notre Dame is close to hiring Stanford coach Tyrone Willingham to revive its football program... |
Salon.com November 10, 2000 Allen Barra |
Have the Fighting Irish gone soft? Notre Dame is enforcing stricter academic standards in a push to deemphasize football. Why now? |
Sports Illustrated September 25, 2002 Frank Deford |
Father Football Notre Dame feels the pull between pigskin and academics. |
BusinessWeek December 19, 2005 Mark Hyman |
Business Wants A Piece Of Charlie By reviving the Irish, Notre Dame coach Charlie Weis has become a hot commodity. |
Sports Central January 4, 2006 Mark Chalifoux |
Irish on Road Back to Glory An argument in n defense of Notre Dame football coach Charlie Weis. |
Sports Central September 3, 2012 Joshua Duffy |
Despite Win, Fighting Irish Still Lost For those who might not remember it, Notre Dame football used to mean something. It was a higher state of intercollegiate being. But it's been a while since those Irish glory years. |
Sports Central December 2, 2004 Kevin Beane |
Boosters Behaving Badly You think Tyrone Willingham is the only coach unjustly fired this week? Think again. |
Sports Central November 30, 2004 Mark Chalifoux |
Confessions of a Notre Dame Fan I like Tyrone Willingham and I really wanted him to succeed. He is a great person and a good coach, but his time at Notre Dame has been wasted. |
Sports Central August 26, 2004 M. Edward Guest |
Problems Under the Golden Dome Following its 1977 national championship, punctuated by a decisive victory over No. 11 Texas in the Cotton Bowl, the Notre Dame Fightin' Irish slipped in the national rankings. |
Sports Illustrated November 29, 2000 Austin Murphy |
Inside College Football Notre Dame sacked USC and muscled its way into the BCS picture... |
Sports Central December 3, 2007 Joe Boesch |
Not So Fighting Irish in '07 One has to look at one person for Notre dame's disappointing season -- Charlie Weis. |
Sports Illustrated October 30, 2002 Phil Taylor |
Simply Excellent When a black head coach like Tyrone Willingham can be seen as the leading authority figure in his sport, when a black manager like Dusty Baker can sit back and wait for a bidding war over his services, there is something fundamentally different about racial attitudes in sports. |
Sports Central October 18, 2005 Mark Chalifoux |
Weis Leads Notre Dame Into New Era Polls won't matter in the end if (when) Notre Dame takes care of business by winning out. |
Sports Illustrated April 30, 2002 Ivan Maisel |
Going Coastal Notre Dame spent the spring trying to get a grip on its new football coach's West Coast attack... |
Sports Central September 14, 2004 Mark Chalifoux |
Luck of the Irish Returns to South Bend A star was born in South Bend on Saturday, in the shape of super-frosh Darius Walker, who gained 115 yards in his first three quarters of college ball, scoring two touchdowns on his way into Irish lore. Paul Hornung must've been proud. |
Salon.com November 23, 2002 Allen Barra |
Of bowls and polls College football's weird champion-choosing process has taken the arguments -- and the fun -- out of New Year's Day. |
Sports Illustrated October 18, 2000 B.J. Schecter |
Fearless Predictions My rant this week has to do with the ever-so-controversial word playoff. Members of the college football bureaucracy and those who run the bowls cringe at its mention. I like what the bowls have done for college football but, as they say, times are a-changin'... |
Sports Central November 14, 2012 Andrew Jones |
What Alabama's Loss Means For BCS College football fans were worried a choice between Kansas State and Oregon for the right to battle Alabama for the national championship would be close to impossible to make and then the unthinkable happened: Alabama lost. |
Salon.com April 23, 2001 Jake Tapper |
Every basket must count! Bush to Notre Dame women's basketball team: You won, no matter what anybody tells you... |
Sports Central November 8, 2007 Kevin Beane |
In Praise of the Quarterback Sneak The play never fails. |
Sports Central October 6, 2007 Greg Wyshynski |
Who Has It Worse, the Irish or Mets? Who would you rather be right now: a Notre Dame football fan or a New York Mets fan? |
Sports Central November 6, 2005 Sara Normand |
USC/ND Greatest College Game Ever? Southern California versus Notre Dame on October 15, 2005 could go down as the greatest four hours in college football history. And the last three minutes could qualify it as the most controversial, as well. |
Sports Central December 22, 2004 Kevin Ferra |
The Nature of the Business It should be a collegiate rule that head coaching changes can not be made until after the bowl games have ended. The least they could do is give players the best opportunity to win the games that they have worked their entire lives for. |
Sports Central December 3, 2004 David Martin |
Bad Times For College Football Fans This college football season opened with as much hope and as great an expectation of success and great competition as any in recent memory. Now, we must consider what has gone wrong with the game of college football. |
Sports Illustrated November 21, 2000 Kelley King |
Darkened Knights There are many reasons why Rutgers should win in football, but the Scarlet Knights continue to lose |
Sports Central December 21, 2004 Eric Poole |
Shoot Me Before I Metaphor Again By hiring Walt Harris, Stanford University saved Pitt from having the most laughable coach firing of the 2004 aftermath. |
Sports Central May 27, 2010 Mark Chalifoux |
The New Rules of Being a Sports Fan Is it necessary to root for your alma mater? |
Sports Central July 23, 2015 Jean Neuberger |
Big 12 Needs to Be 12, and Soon As we head into the 2015 college football season, one would've thought that, during this, the "talking-season," one would've thought that the biggest push from coaches and administrator, especially those in the Big 12, would be an expansion of the College Football Playoff to eight teams. |
Sports Illustrated October 3, 2002 Ivan Maisel |
Conspiracy theory There's just no pleasing Notre Dame followers |
Sports Illustrated September 24, 2002 Ivan Maisel |
Don't jump the gun Notre Dame's road (to Tempe?) gets tougher in October |
Sports Illustrated July 18, 2001 Ivan Maisel |
Irish stew Notre Dame quarterback controversy looks awfully familiar |
The Motley Fool December 3, 2009 Adrian Rush |
A Gridiron Golden Parachute? Like CEOs, college football coaches also take the money and run these days. |
Sports Central December 2, 2005 Adam Russell |
Oregon Could Be Odd "Duck" Out of BCS The big question: What happens to college football's Bowl Championship System if either Texas or USC lose Saturday? |
Sports Central September 13, 2004 Kenneth Asuquo |
Wolverines Wake Up the Echoes Michigan better note that their team is not the same as last year's team. The whispers of being overrated are starting to get louder. |
Sports Central November 30, 2005 Jeff Pohlmeyer |
A Playoff in College Football? Like it or not, there is no fool-proof way to decide a national champion. |
Sports Central December 30, 2005 Jeff Pohlmeyer |
College Football Bowl Season Thoughts Comments on the upcoming college bowl games. |
Sports Central September 15, 2005 Adam Russell |
Another Exciting Weekend in Store This weekend in college football has 10 dynamite games on the schedule that promise to be real barnburners. Notre Dame vs. Michigan State, for instance -- Is Charlie Weis and the Irish for real? |
Sports Illustrated October 22, 2002 Ivan Maisel |
Flying under the radar Football coach Fisher DeBerry's success at Air Force has gone largely unnoticed. |
Sports Central April 13, 2006 Kevin Beane |
Four Months and 18 Days Four months and 18 days is how long we have to wait for college football to arrive. And here are the best 10 games (non-conference or otherwise, in no particular order) that will kick off week one. |
Sports Central November 27, 2006 Alfons Prince |
Down to the Wire ... Again With only one week left in the 2006 college football regular season, it is looking like the bowl championship series (BCS) will once again escape any major controversy. |
Sports Central March 11, 2010 Kevin Beane |
College Football Week 1 Preview A look at the matchups kicking off the start of the college football season. |
Sports Central August 30, 2004 David Martin |
College Football Preview: Big 10 and Pac-10 Predictions for the top ten college football teams of this season and more. |
Sports Central March 12, 2009 Kevin Beane |
2009 Week 1 College Football Preview Here's an early look at the most interesting games of week 1 in college football. |
Sports Illustrated December 18, 2001 Richard Hoffer |
Great Exaggerations George O'Leary's CV was so doctored, it's a wonder it didn't come wrapped in bandages. Last week O'Leary's tenure as Notre Dame coach ended after five days, when he admitted having lied on his resume... |
Sports Central December 29, 2004 David Martin |
Pardon the Incoherence Bowl Week, an ESPN broadcast bonanza, is well underway, but this writer confesses to being not terribly interested. |
Sports Central August 24, 2006 Kevin Beane |
College Football Picks: Hating Notre Dame Here are the five games that differ the most with the opening Las Vegas line. |
Sports Central May 27, 2009 Corrie Trouw |
Top 10 Intriguing Non-Conference Games Labor Day will be here soon, and with it will come these college football gems. |