Our #1 Notre Dame Fighting Irish men's lacrosse (9-1, 2-1 ACC) dropped the #15 Duke Blue Devils (8-4, 0-3 ACC), 7-6. The score was a bit closer than we would like, but a road win that effectively eliminated a rival from the ACC and NCAA Tournaments is a satisfying win. What We Liked Thomas Ricciardelli [...]
Our #1 Notre Dame Fighting Irish (8-1) beat the then-#1, now #3, North Carolina Tar Heels (10-2), 10-5, this past weekend. It was a well played game with many welcome surprises. Specialist Dominance Right off the opening face-off, Spano dominated at the face-off X, going 10-17 on the day. North Carolina’s Wambach came into the [...]
Your weekly dose of Notre Dame news, opinion, and other stuff. 3 News Stories #1 Sun Belt, For Real This Time Louisiana Tech's 20-game football schedule for 2026 is no more. The school will officially be joining the Sun Belt effective July 1st and leaving the Conference USA after membership with the league since 2013. [...]
To paraphrase Frank the Tank from Old School, if you're reading this, you already know. The program has been boarded up. The promising freshman. The veteran point guard. The sharpshooting sophomore. Everything. We're at the Purcell Pavilion. I love you. Frank. The recent past It's not clear what's next for Notre Dame basketball after a [...]
Your weekly dose of Notre Dame news, opinion, and other stuff. 3 News Stories #1 Transfer Classes I was interested reading this Bill Connelly piece at ESPN about his favorite transfer classes heading into the 2026 season. Oklahoma State, leads the way after raiding the roster of North Texas where they're projected to have 6 [...]
Our #2 Notre Dame Fighting Irish men’s lacrosse comfortably beat the then-#1 Richmond Spiders on the shore of Lake Michigan at Northwestern University. We held back on our recap of last week’s surprise loss to #14 Virginia after reflecting on the words of our colleague David Brogan. He suggested the Cavalier loss was probably more [...]
Your weekly dose of Notre Dame news, opinion, and other stuff. 3 News Stories #1 Newcomers ESPN has a recent piece on the top newcomers in the Big Ten and decided to include Notre Dame in the content for some reason. I was going to write about their submission for USC as an upcoming opponent [...]
Our #1 Notre Dame Fighting Irish (6-0) prepare to head into ACC conference play to end out the regular season, with the inclusion of a bonus #1 v #2 matchup against Richmond on the shores of Lake Michigan. Here is what we expect to see for the rest of the season. Virginia The Cavaliers are [...]
Your weekly dose of Notre Dame news, opinion, and other stuff. 3 News Stories #1 Targeting Updates As previously mentioned on a recent Rambler, the rules surrounding targeting penalties will be changing in 2026. The Division I Football Bowl Subdivision Oversight Committee now decided that a player disqualified for targeting for the first time in [...]
Your weekly dose of Notre Dame news, opinion, and other stuff. 3 News Stories #1 Why Doesn't This Happen More Often? NC State (or should I say the NCAA) suspended Teddy Hoffmann for a positive PED test recently. This got me thinking, is it kind of shocking that we don't see more of these suspensions [...]
Our #1 Notre Dame Fighting Irish (5-0) beat the #7 Ohio State Buckeyes (6-1), 9-8 this past Saturday. It was a hard fought defensive battle. It is a great sign that the highest scoring offense in the county can also engage in defensive challenges! Ohio State The headline from this match was Ricciardelli’s performance to [...]
Your weekly dose of Notre Dame news, opinion, and other stuff. 3 News Stories #1 Undefeated According to the Vegas oddsmakers in March, there are 6 teams at the FBS level who are currently favored in every regular season game in 2026. They include: Georgia Penn State North Dakota State Notre Dame Texas Tech Utah [...]
Your weekly dose of Notre Dame news, opinion, and other stuff. 3 News Stories #1 Goodbye to Lou Legendary Notre Dame head coach Lou Holtz passed away this past Wednesday. I wrote some thoughts about him HERE. What's your favorite win from these victories over top 5 finishing teams? Holtz was a college assistant for [...]
Our #1 Notre Dame Fighting Irish (4-0) beat the #14 Maryland Terrapins (1-3) 11-8 in College Park this past Saturday. Irish crush in College Park Domination is the only way this game can be described. While the final score ended up being a 3 point win, taking out a couple Maryland garbage time goals tells [...]
Our now #1/#1/#2 Notre Dame Fighting Irish (3-0) convincingly beat the now #12 Georgetown Hoyas (1-1) 15-9 this past week. With the lack of a broadcast, we aren’t 100% sure how it went down, but a 6 goal win over a team who came into the match-up in the top 3 is nothing to complain [...]
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