Fighting Irish are a lost cause against Spartans
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Notre Dame's offense got into the end zone - twice, in fact. It wasn't nearly enough to end the misery for the Fighting Irish.
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Know the foe: The Irish&#39;s season is in danger of turning bad after a 24-23 loss to Boston College on Saturday. They now have two weeks to prepare for a game at No.
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After last week&#39;s upset of Michigan, Notre Dame&#39;s bandwagon again has a full tank of gas. But will Michigan State siphon it all away, as has been the Spartans&#39; trend in recent years?
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PITTSBURGH -- After his Boston College football team suffered a 20-17 overtime loss to Big East foe Pittsburgh Saturday at Heinz Field, Eagles coach Tom O'Brien conveyed a simple message to his squad.
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After a 28-20 upset of Michigan in their home opener, the Irish certainly have cause for optimism. Notre Dame rebounded from 20-17 loss to BYU in a disappointing season debut to play very well against the Wolverines.
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That&#39;s about the only way to describe the melee that broke out near the end of Detroit&#39;s 97-82 loss to Indiana on Friday night.
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The game is one of the rocks upon which Notre Dame football lore is built. In 1928 the Knute Rockne-coached Irish won one for the Gipper when they beat Army 12-6.
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First a shutout. Then a near loss to a Division I-AA team of about 1,200 students.
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ATHENS -- As you saw yesterday, they&#39;re fighting back now. Not with the world, but with themselves. When you&#39;ve been humiliated at your own game, ridiculed and laughed at back home and can&#39;t intimidate Australia anymore, someone&#39;s bound to mope.
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Analysis: The Midshipmen have grown all too used to agonizing losses during Notre Dame&#39;s 40-year streak. But Navy&#39;s offense will present a unique challenge for the Irish.
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Notre Dame looked beaten and Michigan State looked unstoppable.
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SOUTH BEND, Ind. - Notre Dame is different from any other university in a lot of ways. But on Saturday, the Irish were just another team, like Fresno State or UCLA before them, finding enough ways to put away the Washington Huskies.
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It&#39;s true that Notre Dame rushed for 11 yards and punted 11 times last week in losing to BYU. It&#39;s NOT true that Touchdown Jesus has lowered his arms, stuck a single fist in the air and been renamed Fourthdown Jesus.
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The most remarkable characteristic of Notre Dame&#39;s 27-9 victory over Navy was the utter unremarkability of it. Dog bites man. Hare beats tortoise.
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De La Salle High&#39;s football team is still winless, but at least the Spartans aren&#39;t 0-3. De La Salle held a 7-0 lead until the fourth quarter but couldn&#39;t keep it and had to settle
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Syracuse wasn&#39;t able to follow Boston College to the Atlantic Coast Conference or stop the Eagles from leaving the Big East. The one thing the Orange could do was deprive
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EAST RUTHERFORD, NJ -- If you read columns across the country, listened to sports talk radio or even watched ESPN&#39;s &#39;&#39;SportsCenter,&#39;&#39; you probably got the impression in the days leading up to Saturday that Notre Dame was in grave danger of losing to Navy