I used to tell sports stories, now I tell steel stories | Former Notre Dame beat reporter and award-losing sportswriter | @SMU and @MedillSchool alum
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8 Dec 2025
If Notre Dame was left out of the CFP after a sole rankings reveal like March Madness rather than the last of several ratings ploy babble fests, I don’t think it goes down as an all-time infamous snub. Same if it were Alabama or Miami. Their resumes belong around the bubble (1/2)
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But I don’t blame Notre Dame for feeling like a piece in a guessing game for mass entertainment. Weekly rankings reveals turn selection into that.
Someone will always be the 1st team out. But we don’t need something that invites more room for bad logic and process to choose who.
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2 Dec 2025
The absurdity and hypocrisy of Lane Kiffin repeatedly playing the victim card after walking out on a playoff team for a rival cannot be understated.
The only thing more absurd would be taking his version of events with even a tiny grain of sympathy.
1 Dec 2025
Lane Kiffin says he did not know, for certain until about 8:30 a.m. Sunday - 30 minutes before a scheduled team meeting - that he would not be allowd to coach the playoffs. He was under impression before the 8:30 phone call from AD Keith Carter that he would coach the playoffs.
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1 Dec 2021
Kelly on risking his legacy at Notre Dame: “Legacies are not part of what I spend time thinking about. People will evaluate me based on my life’s work, how I’ve treated people and make their own decision.”
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30 Aug 2025
It legitimately felt like Lee Corso had a 100% approval rating from viewers, which is basically impossible to do as a prominent sports media tv figure, but he’s that likable and authentic. What a career.
30 Aug 2025
Lee Corso's last pick is the same as the first one: Ohio State.
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11 Jan 2025
Lou Holtz does the coin toss or we riot.
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3 Jan 2025
Notre Dame had the athleticism, strength and toughness on par with the sport’s 2020s standard-setter and punched them in the mouth. Gotta be beyond refreshing for Irish fans after ND’s prior CFP games and the 2012 BCS title.
Marcus Freeman and staff built an impressive roster.
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2 Jan 2025
I cannot imagine Notre Dame has had too many safety tandems with noses for the ball and takeaways like Adon Shuler and Xavier Watts have.
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31 Dec 2024
“I’d like to know where Kirk Herbstreit is right now!!”
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31 Dec 2024
The CFP argument was dumb was because anyone who watched Alabama this year knew it wasn't typical Alabama.
The ceiling was high and the floor was low. Going to bat so hard for *this* Bama team, to tear down other schools having great years, was such a bad look, and here we are.
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28 Dec 2024
May we all aspire to live our best lives like the Pop-Tarts Bowl is living its best life.
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21 Dec 2024
Eleven teams are going to lose at some point in the CFP this year.
I sincerely hope that people do not relitigate each team's right to play this out on the field. This is the whole point of an expanded bracket.
If a team isn't good enough to win the national title, it won't!
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13 Dec 2024
the Cubs haven't won a playoff game since 2017
this return may hurt eventually but if Tucker gives them the best chance to get back to relevance/contention ASAP, great
I'd rather more teams in their position prioritize present opportunities over preserving the unknown future
13 Dec 2024
that's a lot for one year of any player but as with Boston & Crochet, extremely refreshing to see a maddeningly cautious team like the Cubs make an aggressive move like this to get a legitimate star they so desperately need
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8 Dec 2024
This drawn-out selection show format was tragically bad and deserved a leak like this. Fire it into the sun, please.
8 Dec 2024
One minute before the selection show started, @Brett_McMurphy reported that SMU was in the playoff and Alabama was out, citing anonymous sources.
It is believed to be the first leak of any bracket information in the 11-year history of the CFP.
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18 Sep 2024
Woj’s announcement will make a lot of people learn what -30- means, which warms my journalism nerd heart.
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14 Sep 2024
It would seem like Jeremiyah Love is more than ready to put Notre Dame’s offense on his shoulders for the rest of the year.
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1 Sep 2024
Gotta Love It!
Who other than Jeremiyah Love to put on the cover of @BGInews?
@jacksoble56 and I didn’t sleep a lick last night helping put this beauty of a Notre Dame football magazine together. Definitely worth having on your coffee table!
Order now: bluegoldonline.com/
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2 Aug 2024
ESPN NFL analyst Kevin Clark: Aggregator social media accounts ‘making fans dumber’ dlvr.it/TBPr0t
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28 Jun 2024
🎮 NEW: EA Sports reveals the Top 25 OVERALL team for College Football 25...
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13 Jun 2024
I will accept nothing other than the Whataburger 12 Conference
13 Jun 2024
In a presentation to league leaders in May, Big 12 commissioner Brett Yormark proposed selling the naming rights to the conference in what would be one of the most lucrative & unique sponsorship deals in college sports history, sources tell @YahooSports.
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