In this time of uncertainty, we college football fans are probably spending more time than usual looking at the past. Part of this is opportunity - there's nothing but time on our hands, and for sports fans used to filling that time with games, there aren't any of those. Another is that plenty of folks [...]
The greatest musical artists of all-time made mistakes. No, I'm not talking about the intrusion of Yoko Ono or the decision to spend 8 minutes and 22 seconds of precious Beatles record space with "Revolution 9." Those are both low-hanging fruit that everyone talks about. I've got other more intriguing things to talk about. As [...]
Welcome back to the Hall of Fame Series here on 18Stripes. After the last couple of posts talking about the best players in modern Notre Dame history that can never make the College Football Hall of Fame due to external circumstances. Today, we begin our journey through the 21st Century of Irish greats who have [...]
We continue our celebration of the Notre Dame Fighting Irish lacrosse seniors with a chat with defenseman Jacob Kanak! World events kept us from the chance to follow this team on its journey to a national championship, so ND-Atl 2.0 (today with help from 18 Stripes original writer Whiskey) will instead use the time he [...]
I grew up playing travel hockey which means hundreds of hours in a car listening to the radio. Remember listening to music on the radio? As a kid, I digested a wide palette in Western New York from 97 Rock, Kiss 98.5, and Oldies 104. A little mixture of The Who, MC Hammer, and The [...]
Welcome back to the summer series on Notre Dame players in the College Football Hall of Fame. For the introduction of the purpose of the series, go here. Last time we went over the truly great seasons that were not recognized by All-American teams, and therefore making them ineligible for the College Hall of Fame. [...]
In case you missed it, we rated the very best trophies in sports and now we turn to the very worst. In the wide world of sports there are some amazing trophies presented to players and what we cover here today are the black sheep of champions. Some are overrated, some ugly, and some well [...]
We continue our celebration of the Notre Dame Fighting Irish lacrosse seniors with a chat with LSM Eric Restic! World events kept us from the chance to follow this team on its journey to a national championship, so ND-Atl 2.0 will instead use the time he would have spent writing previews and recaps to catch [...]
For the purposes of this content today I needed to establish some parameters. Since this is primarily a college football blog I need to point out that rivalry trophies are not included in today's list. The good reason for that is the sheer amount of college football rivalry hardware that would need to be combed [...]
Some day it'll happen and it will be glorious. In Part 1 of this series we discussed the now defunct NCAA Football franchise and if you've played that in the past, or it's professional counterpart Madden, you'll know game-maker EA Sports isn't in the business of knocking your socks off every year. When you look [...]
I'm what they are now calling a Late Xennial, a micro generation from Generation X. Born in 1982, I can remember playing an Atari in 1986 and a Nintendo at friend's homes around the same time before my brother got his own NES for Christmas in 1988. Our family bought an Apple IIGS in 1987 [...]
We continue our celebration of the Notre Dame Fighting Irish lacrosse seniors with a chat with midfielder Auden Menke! World events kept us from the chance to follow this team on its journey to a national championship, so ND-Atl 2.0 will instead use the time he would have spent writing previews and recaps to catch [...]
We all have our favorite versions of our favorite video games. Like many who are reading this right now if I had to take one video game to a deserted island it would definitely be NCAA Football. But, which version was the best? Bill Walsh College Football kicked the series off in June 1993, who [...]
We begin our celebration of the Notre Dame Fighting Irish lacrosse seniors with a chat with goalie Jack Zullo! World events kept us from the chance to follow this team on its journey to a national championship, so ND-Atl 2.0 will instead use the time he would have spent writing previews and recaps to catch [...]
These are the top eight teams to make the playoff using the criteria I invented. If you missed the first two installment of this series, you can find 24-17 here and 16-9 here. Here is a quick reminder of the criteria set out for ranking these teams: Overall ranking is an average of SP+, FEI, [...]
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