Your weekly dose of Notre Dame news, opinion, and other stuff.
Top News
Notre Dame football begins fall camp today.
Former Notre Dame linebacker Drew White tore his ACL during camp with the Washington Commanders.
The NCAA Board of Directors have delayed the vote on transfer reforms.
Texas A&M 2020 signee Donell Harris was a top 50 recruit and has medically retired.
Ryan Day and his wife have donated $1 million to Ohio State’s mental health fund.
A judge ruled that UCLA will receive $67.5 million from Under Armour after the apparel company terminated their 15-year deal early back in June 2020.
Auburn quarterback T.J. Finley signed a NIL deal with Amazon earlier this week and was charged with eluding police on Thursday after numerous traffic violations on his motorcycle.
Uniform of the Week
What is a Torero? I had to look this up as it’s a bullfighter but not the kind (matador) whose aim is to kill the bull. San Diego actually has a Clark Gable looking bullfighter live mascot thing going on for their school. I’m a bit disappointed. I’m looking at this picture below and I thought there would be some sort of surfing motif. Their helmet logo in particular feels in that mold. It looks like we want to go hang out at the beach, it’s San Diego!
Either way, I like these uniforms. Again, dark blue and light blue bringing us something nice. This feels like if Ole Miss moved their team to the west coast. That script above the numbers is also terrific.
Recruiting
Notre Dame picked up linebacker Jaiden Ausberry (0.9510) on Thursday night. Commit post HERE.
Alabama gained a commit from top running back Richard Young (0.9864) plus defensive lineman Hunter Osborne (0.9421). The Tide also flipped tight end Ty Lockwood (0.9390) from Ohio State this week.
Quarterback Brock Glenn (0.8980) committed to Ohio State in a bit of a surprise.
Athlete Dalton Brooks (0.9685) committed to Texas A&M.
Michigan State picked up offensive tackle Stanton Ramil (0.9233).
Edge rusher Colton Vasek (0.9356) committed to Oklahoma.
Interior lineman Markee Anderson (0.9402) is staying in-state and committed to South Carolina.
YouTube Channel
I recently saw a map of the most popular (in terms of number of stores I believe) grocery stores in each US state and it made me look for a video going over something similar. It’s amazing in this vast country how different stores can get even from county to county in certain parts of the United States. As a child of the 1980’s we had Bells, Quality, and Tops (the most popular chain in New York state despite the dude in this video’s embarrassing answer) with the latter still going strong to this day.
In the mid-1990’s a Walmart supercenter moved in and forced everything but Tops to close. Outside of my immediate village I am blessed to be a part of the Wegman’s stores in the metro area. There are a lot of supermarkets I’ve been to across the country and Wegman’s is the best. One of my least favorite things to do is go into a supermarket in a really small town that looks like it hasn’t been updated since 1974. It’s a true creepy time capsule.
Tunes
Recently, Sirius XM Radio dropped Los Angeles Top 40 KIIS-FM after an old business deal ended where they could simulcast the station along with iHeart Radio. Instead, Sirius plugged in the Yacht Rock station its place. It could be worse! Also, If you you haven’t check out the channel The Spectrum it’s pound for pound the greatest radio station out there. Today, we feature the solo hit “Baker Street” from Scottish performer Gerry Rafferty.
This was off his No. 1 hit album City to City which blew up with another hit song “Right Down the Line” which is probably my favorite of his work. However, it’s tough to match “Baker Street” and the indelible saxophone riff that kills in this tune. It’s overall a very strange song that wouldn’t necessarily reach out to a lot of people, but this hit just right in 1978.
Trivia
A Lou Holtz-coached Notre Dame team scored 30 or more points and lost to a team that finished unranked only once in 11 seasons. Name the opponent and season.
The Other Football
It came home. England won the 2022 Women’s Euro 2-1 with an extra-time goal to beat Germany. The Lady Lionesses will face Brazil in the first-ever Finalissma at some point in the future. England will also face the US Women’s team in a sold-out friendly on October 7th inside Wembley Stadium.
Barcelona have yet again sold more of its media rights in order to pay for incoming player signings. This won’t end terribly, I’m sure.
Riqui Puig is headed to LA Galaxy from Barcelona on a free transfer at just 22 years old. That’s probably not how he saw his career going.
The English Premier League season begins today as Arsenal visits Crystal Palace in a London Derby.
Streaming
George Jetson popped up in the news back in July because people were claiming he was was supposed to be born in 2022 in this month. The official Wikipedia site does claim 2022 but has nothing about the particular month. That would place the show The Jetsons somewhere in the 2060’s if we calculate George was a middle-aged dad with 2 kids.
The Jetsons got syndicated in 1985 with new episodes created for a couple years well after the initial 24-episode run back in 1962. This would explain why the original episodes look a little funny compared to what I watched as a kid. We’re still waiting on those conveyor belt showers, aren’t we? We have 4 more decades to get it ready. I don’t think the flying cars are coming any time soon.
A Look Back
At the time, Lou Holtz described this 1990 defeat to Stanford as one of the worst of his career. The Irish were No. 1 in the country and 3-0 to start the season with wins over a pair of ranked teams. Stanford came in 1-3 with a loss at home to San Jose State the week prior. Notre Dame led 24-7 with the Cardinal’s only score coming on their first play from scrimmage after a Ricky Watters fumbled punt return.
With Rocket Ismail sidelined due to a thigh bruise, Watters would fumble another punt return and Adrian Jarrell also lost track of another on a windy day in South Bend. Stanford ended up driving down the field to take a 5-point lead late in the 4th quarter. As time expired, a Rick Mirer throwback pass to Derek Brown fell off the tight end’s hands in the end zone. Just a brutal loss.
18S Paddock Club
Last week we said it couldn’t get worse for Ferrari and Charles Leclerc. It can get so much worse! During qualifying a door opened to a big weekend cutting into Max Verstappen’s points advantage after the championship leader messed up his penultimate run in Q3 and had an engine issue abort his final run to finish 10th. However, George Russell surprised by grabbing pole position over Sainz and Leclerc.
On race day, Verstappen had moved up to 6th place by lap 8 and both Max and Lewis Hamilton got past Lando Norris for 4th and 5th place by lap 13. A few laps later, both race leader Russell and Verstappen would take an early pit while Hamilton followed a couple laps later and then Leclerc came in on lap 22. At this point, things seemed fine for Ferrari.
An emphatic overtake from Verstappen 💪
Leclerc was powerless against the charging Red Bull #HungarianGP #F1 pic.twitter.com/7Ly0OM9Y9x
— Formula 1 (@F1) July 31, 2022
On lap 31, Leclerc passed Russell for the lead and would build a 5-second gap with the race nearly half over. It seemed like Leclerc would cruise to an easy win. The big mistake for Ferrari came when Verstappen took to the pits and instead of extending Leclerc’s stint with the lead on medium tires and finishing on softs, they reacted on the very next lap and put poorly performing hard tires on Leclerc. In a shock move, Verstappen would quickly pass Leclerc, actually do a 360-spin through the final turn a bit later, and then pass Leclerc again on lap 45.
Leclerc would panic late for soft tires but the damage was done. Verstappen would cruise to his 8th win, Leclerc finished 6th, and both Mercedes drivers finished on the podium after a late charge from Hamilton secured 2nd place. It was a tough strategy loss for Russell coming off his first career pole, but it’ll all be overshadowed by Ferrari’s mistakes.
The championship fight is likely over. We’re entering the summer break with 9 races remaining and Verstappen’s lead is now 80 points over Leclerc. Red Bull is also 97 points ahead of Ferrari and Mercedes now just 30 points back of 2nd place, including some new-found race pace from the Silver Arrows.
We’ll see if Ferrari makes any organizational changes prior to the next race in Spa coming up in late August. It seems highly unlikely. Next week, we’ll have a mid-season review plus take a look at the 2023 grid as Sebastian Vettel announced his retirement, Fernando Alonso decided to leave Alpine and jump into that Aston Martin seat, and a ton of drama surrounds the future of Oscar Piastri.
Trivia Answer:
Stanford, 1990.
The lady for
Michiganthe closest state to South Bend got it right (Meijer), and even pronounced it correctly (Meijer’s). Never lose that S.I guessed that Stanford game and I remembered Derek Brown had a big drop, but not that BIG.
Hy-Vee and it’s not even close.
In-laws live in Florida, so I visit Publix whenever I’m down there. Do not like. Every one I’ve been in seems 35 years old and tin, bad selection, wired layouts. Never had their deli sandos, though.
^Should read “old and tiny”
#1 – DMB Radio
#2 – Disney Radio (#cooldad)
#3 – Tom Petty Radio
#4 – The Spectrum
#1 – 58 (Prime Country)
#2 – 47 (Fly, 90s/2000’s hip hop)
#3 – 34 (Lithium, 90s alternative)
#4 – 60 (Outlaw Country)
Wow, Petty is popular enough to have his own station? Good for him.
Remind me what channel Skynyrd is?
A down for Eric and an up for Drick. 🙂
They don’t sell out to the Boomer soft rock crowd.
Schnuck’s all day, baby.
Agree with Drick that Publix as a store is nothing to write home about, but the sandwiches are very good.
Also, Baker Street is a great song and reminds me of dollar beers at McCormick’s in South Bend on Thursday nights.
Call me highbrow, but I’m a Dierberg’s guy.
No shade on Schnuck’s, both are fine native St. Louis German families (like, say, Anhueser and Busch) and I’ll hit whichever is closer, I just like the selection and the more updated stores that Dierberg’s has.
Dierberg’s is excellent as well. St. Louis is really spoiled for great grocery stores.
Not you, Shop N Save.
Agreed about being spoiled. And who needs S&S when Aldi and Trader Joe’s have a lot of locations?
And on the high end, Whole Foods and Fresh Thyme and Straub’s are all within 15 minutes of anyone in the Central corridor.
Isn’t Shop n Save no more?
Yep, looks like they closed in 2018. Good riddance. I think I went into the one in Kirkwood one time in 18 years.
I used to live in the CWE long enough ago that our only walkable choice was Straub’s. Bought plenty of expired items there.
Technically you “could” have walked to Scary Schnuck’s on Lindell, right? Don’t know your odds of being able to walk back tho.
Technically, I could walk to the Wegman’s in Buffalo. But no, probably not, I lived on Kingshighway – so like 20 blocks away.
Wegman’s is a little too fancy/over-priced for my tastes…But their bakery aisle is what my idealized version of heaven probably looks a lot like.
Harris Teeter is my favorite all-around grocer.
Me shopping at Wegman’s:
Also, I recently went to a new “Amazon Fresh” grocery store that just opened in my area. It’s going to be the future, just scan your phone to get in, shop, scan your phone and leave. No checkouts or registers or clerks scanning each item. Kinda felt like stealing but was very cool, they email you a receipt shortly after leaving the store
Prices were cheap, but it was stocked weirdly. My dog has this food he eats, for instance, which they had, but like 17 like tubs of only one flavor and no other offerings. Who am I to doubt the algorithm, but there was plenty of examples like that where they would have weird or unbalanced amounts of one particular item/flavor/variety of things compared to the rest of the stock. And not just like “lots of regular Coca Cola” popular items in large quantity, it seemed very bizarre with how and why they had certain amounts of various things.
If by “future” you mean “old news in developed countries,” then yes! Wish we had more of that stuff here.
American exceptionalism is a disease.
https://youtu.be/kYHTzqHIngk
Weather forecast for Americans living in Europe: 100% chance of another American living in Europe blowing sunshine up your ass about how much better living in Europe is.
Rafferty was the singer in Stealers Wheel- big hit was, Stuck in the middle with you.
Joe Egan and Gerry Rafferty were a duo known as Stealers Wheel when they recorded this Dylanesque, pop, bubblegum favorite from April of 1974 that reached up to number five as K-Billy’s Super Sounds of the Seventies continues.
Millions downloaded the song on streaming services in the early 2000’s as Bob Dylan.
A three minute bit that makes the case for the Baker Street sax solo being the “best piece of music in the world” for those interested.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4DCJWDhWeA
That’s amazing.
Aldi is not the *best* grocery store, but it is definitely the *most interesting* grocery store
Fair.
Does Costco count as a grocery store? Definitely useful for getting items in bulk! Wegmans is probably my favorite “traditional” grocery store in my area (Philly suburbs), but Giant has one about a quarter mile from my house that’s very convenient for midweek purchases, and their reward points can be used for gas discounts, which has been very helpful the last few months!
(It’s been equally helpful every month)
Actually, it’s probably been more beneficial in further back months
Equally disgusted with Walmart and the Denver Broncos uniforms. I expect their new ownership will start featuring the merch in Wally’s World soon. Why in the world would they have ever chosen Orange decades ago?
Mariano’s in Chicago was great when I lived there. A bar with football on so all the dads could get drunk and be entertained while holding a kid while mom actually shopped. Oyster and sushi bars. Pretty good hot food bar. And they would sometimes have a live piano player which was weird as hell.
Sounds like we need a 30 for 30 on this place!?!??
Kroger took it over and now it sucks.
Market District (a jumped-up Giant Eagle) is my go-to grocery here in town. The one down the street from me has a bar with wine and 20 taps of consistently excellent craft beer. The dude who runs it is a serious beer nerd and does a fantastic job sourcing the kegs. The beer selection is also one of the biggest and most varied I’ve seen anywhere. It borders on absurd. The grocery proper is nice & new, has most of the bells & whistles that people like, but it’s the bar and beer stuff that brings me back.
The Publix locations I’ve been to in recent years have been the opposite of old & tiny, so I guess it just depends on where you’re at. Love the deli sandwiches. I’ve liked most of the Harris Teeters I’ve shopped in and always had a soft spot for Piggy Wiggly, too. I guess being in those just makes me feel like I’m on vacation bc they’re generally SE/Atlantic coast. Never seen the inside of a Wegman’s before but would like to at some point. I’m the weirdo who actually likes to go to the grocery, although getting to roam the aisles with a glass of Epic Big Bad Baptist helps a lot.
So funny that you brought up the Jetsons. I just saw this yesterday
https://youtu.be/oZ2PXUKFWdY
That guy who said King Soopers in Colorado smells like home could not be more correct