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2024 Football Recruiting Grades: Quarterback & Running Back

Welcome to our individual breakdowns of the Notre Dame 2024 recruiting class. In case you missed it, you can read our overview of this Fighting Irish recruiting class, the second full group of the Marcus Freeman era. Today, we look at quarterback and the ball carriers in the backfield. As a reminder, here’s our standard [...]

By |2024-06-04T07:40:03-04:00June 4th, 2024|Recruiting|4 Comments

We’re Ready if Notre Dame Football Signs a Jersey Sponsor

We're headed in the direction of schools having to pay football players directly. Will that mean a cut back on spending from athletic departments? Maybe no more $100,000 barber shops in the football facility? Or, maybe personalized lockers that cost just $1,000 to make instead of $12,000? Nope, it's time to find new revenue streams [...]

By |2024-06-02T18:59:42-04:00June 2nd, 2024|Football|24 Comments

The Weekly Rambler: The Curse is Broken

Your weekly dose of Notre Dame news, opinion, and other stuff. Top News Notre Dame lacrosse's back-to-back National Championship quest: Secured. Irish running back Gi'Bran Payne has torn his ACL and will miss the 2024 football season. Notre Dame has released the start times for the 2024 home football games, all EST of course: Northern [...]

By |2024-05-30T19:42:41-04:00May 30th, 2024|18S Reads|25 Comments

The Top 50 Iconic Uniforms in Sports: #15

Welcome to this website’s off-season sports sartorial content. We are counting down the world’s top 50 most iconic sports uniforms. Only current uniforms apply, we are not including one-off or alternate uniforms. Let’s stick to the basics. #15 San Francisco 49ers We are in the no. 15 spot of the countdown and the 6th NFL [...]

By |2024-05-27T15:29:56-04:00May 30th, 2024|18S Reads|2 Comments

Notre Dame Football 2024 Recruiting Class Review: Stacking Classes Now

Our review of the 2024 Notre Dame recruiting class is finally here! Better late than never, right? This year, Brendan was too bogged down trying to run all of the New Jersey Little League and he had to sit this cycle out. But not completely, he'll have a small submission towards the end with the [...]

By |2024-05-29T08:20:37-04:00May 29th, 2024|Recruiting|5 Comments

The Weekly Rambler: The Giants Chose Violence

Your weekly dose of Notre Dame news, opinion, and other stuff. Top News Notre Dame is ranked 10th in the ESPN post-spring SP+ by Bill Connelly. ESPN and TNT Sports have agreed to sublicense select College Football Playoff games starting this season and running through the 2028 season. FBS Schedules has the breakdown per year: [...]

By |2024-05-23T19:57:41-04:00May 23rd, 2024|18S Reads|14 Comments

The Top 50 Iconic Uniforms in Sports: #16

Welcome to this website’s off-season sports sartorial content. We are counting down the world’s top 50 most iconic sports uniforms. Only current uniforms apply, we are not including one-off or alternate uniforms. Let’s stick to the basics. #16 LSU Football I'm going to ruffle some feathers and create a little bit of controversy with today's [...]

By |2024-05-23T08:00:17-04:00May 23rd, 2024|18S Reads|4 Comments

The Top 50 Iconic Uniforms in Sports: #17

Welcome to this website’s off-season sports sartorial content. We are counting down the world’s top 50 most iconic sports uniforms. Only current uniforms apply, we are not including one-off or alternate uniforms. Let’s stick to the basics. #17 Tour de France General Classification Leader's Jersey The annual Tour de France comprises 21 race days over [...]

By |2024-05-22T07:52:38-04:00May 22nd, 2024|18S Reads|4 Comments

EA Sports College Football 25: Reveal, Release Date, Gameplay, Cover Athletes & More

We are inching closer to the release of College Football 25 as the world famous (yes, I said it) video game makes its triumphant (or will it be?) return to the fingers and eyes of fans everywhere in 2 more months. In case you missed it, I've written about the game returning both HERE and [...]

By |2024-05-17T22:39:20-04:00May 19th, 2024|Football|20 Comments

The Top 50 Iconic Uniforms in Sports: #18

Welcome to this website’s off-season sports sartorial content. We are counting down the world’s top 50 most iconic sports uniforms. Only current uniforms apply, we are not including one-off or alternate uniforms. Let’s stick to the basics. #18 Celtic Soccer No, we aren't talking about the Boston Celtics (will they make the list??) today. Instead, [...]

By |2024-05-15T11:42:43-04:00May 16th, 2024|18S Reads|8 Comments

The Top 50 Iconic Uniforms in Sports: #19

Welcome to this website’s off-season sports sartorial content. We are counting down the world’s top 50 most iconic sports uniforms. Only current uniforms apply, we are not including one-off or alternate uniforms. Let’s stick to the basics. #19 North Carolina Basketball As we're inside the top 20 we have included our 3rd college basketball program. [...]

By |2024-05-13T10:07:10-04:00May 14th, 2024|18S Reads|4 Comments

An Early Look at the 2024 Notre Dame Opponent Quarterbacks: Games 1-6

Once again, Notre Dame brought in a transfer to start at quarterback. In fact, said quarterback was featured in part 1 of this series last year after being on the 2023 Fighting Irish schedule. I don't think we'll see that happen again in 2025, but you never know. The first half of the 2024 schedule [...]

By |2024-05-13T07:43:08-04:00May 13th, 2024|Football|2 Comments

The Weekly Rambler: Do You Know the Blue?

Your weekly dose of Notre Dame news, opinion, and other stuff. Top News Notre Dame's upcoming Shamrock Series game in New York City against Army on November 23rd will be played in primetime. Former 5-star quarterback Sam Huard is transferring from Cal-Poly to Utah after previously spending time at Washington. Former Louisville defensive lineman Jermayne [...]

By |2024-05-09T21:44:02-04:00May 9th, 2024|18S Reads|7 Comments

The Top 50 Iconic Uniforms in Sports: #20

Welcome to this website’s off-season sports sartorial content. We are counting down the world’s top 50 most iconic sports uniforms. Only current uniforms apply, we are not including one-off or alternate uniforms. Let’s stick to the basics. #20 Las Vegas Raiders "Thhhhhhhhhhhhhhheeeeeeeeeeeee RRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRaaaaaiiiddderrssssssssssssss." Our 5th NFL team in our countdown now hails from the tourist [...]

By |2024-04-26T21:31:52-04:00May 9th, 2024|18S Reads|6 Comments
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