Paths diverge for Irish, Beavers
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A game between Oregon State and Notre Dame may not hold any special significance for the average college football fan. But for fans of the Beavers and Fighting Irish, a matchup of
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Quinn throws 4 TDs in 1st half as Notre Dame opens big lead, cruises to 3rd win. By Tim Prister. SOUTH BEND, Ind. -- Apparently, Notre Dame had its choice of ways to defeat the winless Washington Huskies.
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A beaver has been spotted in New York City for the first time in more than 200 years, marking the return of an animal once vital to the city's economy and then nearly hunted to extinction.
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The only other time Notre Dame faced Oregon State - just down the road at the 2001 Fiesta Bowl - the Beavers clobbered the Irish 41-9.
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The Irish&#39;s postseason losing streak now stands at seven games following a 38-21 loss to Oregon State on Tuesday night in the Insight Bowl before a sellout crowd of 45,917 in Bank One Ballpark.
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School's out at Bracken School in Balbriggan, Ireland  BALBRIGGAN, Ireland (Washington Post Foreign Service) - The opening of Ireland's first predominantly black school, in this suburban town just north of Dublin, illustrates the pressures facing once-sleepy Ireland as its population and economy boom. Once almost entirely white and Catholic, the country is struggling to integrate hundreds of thousands of new immigrants and to provide them with education, health, welfare and transportation services as fast as they arrive. After 150 years of population decline as native Irish fled dire economic conditions, Ireland is now one of Europe's fastest-growing and most prosperous nations. The white-hot "Celtic Tiger" economy of recent years has leveled off, but Ireland continues to be a magnet for immigrants. "Ireland has been subject to something that no other country in history has ever been subject to: sudden-onset migration," said Conor Lenihan, the Irish integration minister, whose post was created this year. "We have seen our non-Irish population go from zero to about 15 percent in 10 years."
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In recent years, Big Ten football teams such as Michigan, Michigan State and Wisconsin have trekked to the University of Oregon&#39;s Autzen Stadium.
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Notre Dame's Plan 'A' appears to be heading to Florida.
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The Americans have the big names. The Europeans have the luck of the Irish.
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Notre Dame has developed a reputation for playing a tough schedule and this year was no different. But Oregon State&#39;s schedule this season was anything but a pushover.
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BEAVERS BEND STATE PARK, Oklahoma  - It looks like a perfect trout stream in autumn: clear, cold water gushing over rocks and through wooded hills shedding the last of their leaves.
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Tyrone Willingham never showed a trace of doubt. Not following last season's 5-7 finish by Notre Dame. Not after a deflating season-opening loss to Brigham Young. Not when the Fighting Irish trailed 9-0 at halftime to Michigan on Saturday.
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CONCEPCIÃÂN, Argentina -- From a flat patch of tree-studded savannah, the gaze stretches for miles: across a small pond where a marsh deer stops to drink, and over swampy wetlands where herons gingerly high-step.
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By Julie Bisbee, The Daily Oklahoman  Feb. 11--BEAVERS BEND -- When Donny Carter started fishing near Beavers Bend State Park in 1989, he might have spent hours on a stream before seeing another angler.
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Two officials differ on the future of a storied outdoor race.
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The Irish team to play the USA Eagles shows eleven changes, two positional, from the side that defeated South Africa 17 - 12 on Saturday.
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From a total of 16 riders representing Ireland at the forthcoming World Breeding Championships for Young Horses in Lanaken, Belgium, 6 are from Connaught with 3 of those from Claremorris, Co.