More on Possible Big Ten Involvement; NCAA Track Championships

SportsIllustrated.com’s Andy Staples has a few ideas about how adding Notre Dame into the Big Ten would work. He envisions Notre Dame coming into the picture, a 12-team Big Ten Conference with two divisions- Notre Dame in the weaker one, but including Michigan. There are all sorts of theories about what the Big Ten should do, in light of Joe Paterno asking that the conference expand.

In other Notre Dame-related news, the Track and Field team competed at the NCAA Regional this past weekend. The NCAA National Championships are set to go down next weekend. Here’s the page where you can see all of the meet information, if you’re interested in attending the NCAA Track and Field Championships in Fayetteville, Arkansas. One cool thing to look at is the PDF of the meet records and all-time standings. Do a word search for Notre Dame and you can see all of the premier athletes in Notre Dame’s sparking history.

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Permalink - Posted in General on June 2, 2009 - Post a comment

Notre Dame-Miami Rivalry: Let’s Start It Back Up

Hope you Notre Dame football fans had a nice weekend.  To bring you all back to the chatter-web, we have a nice article from the BleacherReport.com that needs some discussing. BleacherReeport.com is a site where aspiring sports journalists submit their own articles. Sometimes they’re pretty good, as in this case. It’s nice to get some Notre Dame news that’s not coming from a media conglomerate or Notre Dame itself. Anyways, the purpose of the article was to call for Notre Dame and Miami to play one another on a regular basis.

Why Miami? Back in 1989 there was a superb game when Miami (unfortunately) upset the No. 1-ranked Notre Dame Fighting Irish. They played again in 1990 with the opposite result, but have not met since. The matchup could have snowballed into a full-fledged rivalry, but it didn’t. Shame.

While the Notre Dame football schedule is a hard thing to get onto these days, as many matchups are already set years in advance and there’s a huge pile of paper and red tape that must go down before anything can be done, this is a very nice idea. The Notre Dame blog now fully supports the idea of Notre Dame and Miami playing at Yankee Stadium the year after next.

Permalink - Posted in General on June 1, 2009 - Post a comment


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