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Two Insufferable Teams Combine Forces For One Really Big Piece Of Shit

Notre Dame football will play at Yankee Stadium in November, so to commemorate what will surely be a memorable game against Syracuse, the Fighting Irish will wear these pinstriped uniforms. The price is quite steep at $95, but anyone who’d buy one would be doing so drunk anyway....

Will 2018 Be The Year Notre Dame Strings Together Two Good Seasons?

Welcome to the Deadspin 25, a college football poll that strives to be more democratic and less useless than every other preseason poll. Leading up to the college football season kickoff, we will give you previews of the 25 teams that you, the readers, voted to be most worthy of writing about. Now, ...

Arike Ogunbowale Wasn't Supposed To Take The Last Shot

Notre Dame’s final play wasn’t called for Arike Ogunbowale. After hitting the winning three in Friday’s semifinal win over UConn, the Notre Dame junior guard had an off shooting night against Mississippi State, and when the Irish inbounded the ball in a tie game with three seconds left, the play was...

Notre Dame Blows Five-Point Lead With 15 Seconds Remaining, Allows UConn To Force OT, Wins Anyway

Both women’s Final Four games went to overtime tonight, with UConn keeping its undefeated season alive thanks to an incredible meltdown by Notre Dame in the last seconds of regulation....

Indiana Knocks Off Notre Dame In Overtime Finish That Left Gus Johnson Hoarse

We’re used to Gus Johnson unleashing Gusgasms, but Indiana’s overtime comeback to beat Notre Dame that improved their season record to 6-5 and knocked off the 18th-ranked Irish took the Fox announcer to another level....

Notre Dame's Tony Jones Dazed By Hit To Head That Ruined Helmet

Notre Dame’s playing Miami U. tonight, for some reason, and the Fighting Irish found themselves without running back Tony Jones after he took a blow to the head that left gold pieces flying in every direction. Completely healthy, surely....

ESPN Is Just Out Here Airing Old-Timey Notre Dame Dong [NSFW?]

A bump segment during today’s Notre Dame-Boston College game on ESPN today featured a Getty Images photo of Frank Leahy from 1941. It also featured a naked dude in the background. Here’s the original photo wire caption:...

Brian Kelly Can't Resist An Opportunity To Be Passive-Aggressive

Notre Dame head coach Brian Kelly has turned a page in preparation for this football season. He’s learned from his mistakes that led his program to going 4-8. He—ah, hold up while he gets exceptionally bitchy as he argues the difference between one point and one possession after losing 20-19 to Geor...

Brian Kelly Has His Excuses Ready

“Brian Kelly is not pulling back,” Bleacher Report’s Matt Hayes writes in his feature on the Notre Dame football coach. That’s the angle: that the irascible, gurgling Kelly, whose program finished 4-8 last season, will not alter his approach as he hopes to restore the program to its winning ways. Th...

DeShone Kizer Says His Incredible, Thoroughly Detailed Bragging Was Taken Out Of Context

Former Notre Dame quarterback DeShone Kizer escaped the toilet factory in South Bend when he declared for the NFL draft. His draft prospects are currently a bit murky, but it wouldn’t be a surprise to see him selected in the first or second round. But based on Kizer’s own self-evaluation, which he s...

Brian Kelly Thinks DeShone Kizer Needed More Time At The Toilet Factory That Is Notre Dame

College coaches pull this card all the time, and it’s never surprising. There’s an argument for giving football players, particularly quarterbacks, a paid developmental league or some stage in between college and the NFL, but Brian Kelly, who led Notre Dame to an absolutely abysmal 4-8 season in 201...

Georgia Tech Upsets No. 14 Notre Dame With Buzzer-Beater

Unranked Georgia Tech took down No. 14 Notre Dame at the buzzer today with a half-court heave from Tadric Jackson to set Josh Okogie up for the game-winning layup....

Notre Dame Fans Take Out Full-Page Meme In Student Paper Calling For AD's Job

No matter how you look at it, Notre Dame’s football team sucked, and it seems fans are roughly three steps away from the acceptance stage....

Brian Kelly Closes Out Notre Dame's Dogshit Season By Losing, Yelling, And Talking About Accountability

Notre Dame finished its 2016 football season on an anemic note Saturday by losing to USC, 45-27. With a regular-season record of 4-8, the Fighting Irish are eligible for the Absolute Jackshit Bowl. Meanwhile, head coach Brian Kelly is reportedly sniffing around for any open coaching gigs, not becaus...

Notre Dame's Jerry Tillery Kicks Head Of Player Who Just Suffered Brain Injury [Update]

USC-Notre Dame has long been a dirty rivalry, so here’s Notre Dame defensive lineman Jerry Tillery kicking USC’s Aca’Cedric Ware in the head just after Ware took a brain-scrambling helmet-to-helmet blow from Nicco Fertitta—one that got Fertitta ejected from the game....

Notre Dame To Appeal NCAA's Revocation Of 2012, 2013 Victories

College athletics’ governing body is once again looking to make a statement via punishment; this time, Notre Dame—namely its 2012 national championship runner-up campaign—rests in its sights....

11 Sports GIFs That Will Restore Your Faith In Humanity

Boy, it’s been a hell of a week for America. With discord rising as a result of the election results, racists feeling emboldened by Trump’s victory, and Leonard Cohen passing, it’s tough to feel good about anything. In an attempt to spruce up your Friday afternoon, we collected eleven sports GIFs th...

Brian Kelly Loses Three Times In One Night

The Notre Dame Fighting Irish endured their fourth loss in five games as they lost to Stanford, 17-10, Saturday. Head coach Brian Kelly, who’s had a rough season, didn’t just lose to the Cardinal yesterday....

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