Posted on February 24, 2009 by jmooser
The rafters at the newly announced hockey facility just might be full of banners even before the Irish play a game inside of it. At the very least, the 2008-2009 CCHA Regular Season Championship banner will hang, as Notre Dame swept the weekend series with UNO and second place Miami (OH) lost to and tied [...]
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Posted on October 4, 2008 by jmooser
I’ve always thought that teams named after abstract entities such as colors were cute. I think my personal favorite was back in the day when Marquette was the Gold. I guess that would have been a menacing nickname back in the days of Teddy Roosevelt and the Roughriders when the Gold standard was used or [...]
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Posted on September 23, 2008 by jmooser
But not because I don’t want to write for you heapsters. Alas, I have returned from my trip to Austin, Texas! I had a blast, to say the least, but details will be coming the rest of this week, so forgive my brevity regarding specific details! Though the trip did leave me with quite a [...]
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Posted on September 7, 2008 by jmooser
That was close. Too close. Definitely not anywhere close to the quite comfortable margin of 21 the spread had us at, but a win is a win. Especially for a team that was the unexpected doormat of D1 last season, winning a tough game like this I feel can begin the cohesion process of the [...]
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Posted on September 6, 2008 by jmooser
After waiting for a long nine months (or 12, if you knew the season was over after Georgia Tech AND Michigan), Notre Dame’s 2008 Football campaign kicks off today against none other than San Diego State, member of the juggernaut Mountain West conference. Couldn’t we at least have gotten BYU? Regardless, our proverbial Christmas has [...]
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