Oct. 18, 2025. South Bend. Under stadium lights, rain-soaked jerseys and the night sky carried the noise of drums and horns across South Bend. Notre Dame and USC met as they'd done for nearly a century. What the 77,622 people packed into Notre Dame Stadium couldn't know, what even the players grinding…
As Adon Shuler burst onto the scene in 2024 with an interception in his first career start against Texas A&M, Chris Fowler called him a “tough Jersey kid!” Since then, Adon Shuler has been exactly that. The Irvington, N.J. native was a highly touted prospect out of high school and chose Notre…
With just 13 seconds left in the fourth quarter, Texas A&M quarterback Marcel Reed delivered a touchdown strike to the back corner of the end zone, giving the Aggies a 41-40 lead and dropping Notre Dame to 0-2 after an opening loss to Miami. Fans left the Cathedral of College Football deflated,…
They say it’s not how you start, it’s how you finish. Notre Dame rode that mantra, among others, to massive success in 2024, overcoming an early loss to Northern Illinois en route to a 13-game win streak and the National Championship game.
In 2025, however, the message seemingly reversed. …
In 1988, the Fighting Irish faced off against the Miami Hurricanes at home in South Bend for a game that anchored the brewing rivalry. Leading up to the game, the Irish fan base bought into the identity conflict spurred on through the sale of “Catholics vs. Convicts” t-shirts designed and sold by…
A tough decision kicked off the 2025 season Marcus Freeman called it one of the hardest decisions he’s made in his
life. Heading into the fall, few thought that it would be much of a decision at all.
Starting quarterback at Notre Dame: a position that holds so much weight. So much pressure.…
This past Friday, the Notre Dame Police Department (NDPD) detained senior Libby Garnett, who has been charged with unauthorized squatting and inadvertent arson. Firefighters were dispatched in response to a small fire on North Quad, in front of Farley Hall. The origin of the blaze was traced to a…
If you were to look up the term “fall from grace” in the dictionary right now, the first thing you’d see would be a photo showcasing the current state of our beloved South Dining Hall. Once a world-renowned eatery of legend, SDH has been stripped of its opulence and glory and reduced to a disheveled…
My drive — nine hours on the Pennsylvania Turnpike — to Notre Dame inspired some relief… and some fear. Even two years of university under my belt (and six times two years more of school otherwise) could not ameliorate any first day of school anxieties. Walking under the golden dome felt like exposing…
The first cool mornings of October wrap Notre Dame’s campus in a kind of magic, one might say ... mist curling above the quads, golden leaves crunching underfoot and everything suddenly feeling cinematic. It’s the kind of crisp, golden hour atmosphere that practically begs for a warm drink in hand.…
The parking lots pulsed with life as tailgate smoke and country drawls rose over humming radios. Irish melodies wove through “Something in the Orange” as strangers from Chicago to Grand Rapids shared coolers and laughter.
The sun was still climbing, it was barely noon. Before the concert even…
A few months ago, my flight from Boston to Chicago made me realize that common sense isn’t exactly common when you’re 30,000 feet in the air. What was a short, peaceful flight quickly became an uncontrolled competition of who could take up more of the armrest space and who could watch their TikTok…
The 2025-2026 school year marks the 50th anniversary of women’s varsity athletics here at Notre Dame. Women were first admitted to the university in the fall of 1972, and just four short years later, tennis was introduced as the first women’s varsity sport. Since then, Notre Dame women’s sports teams…
At 6 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 3, 2025, amidst the general buzz of excitement for Saturday’s home football game against Boise State, fans gathered around a half-court in the Eddy Street Commons for the first-ever “Irish Jam,” a free outdoor event celebrating Notre Dame basketball and the South Bend community.…
Blake Kelly of Notre Dame men’s soccer shouldered an incredible responsibility last season. For a team that had reached the College Cup final a year prior, the Michigan native earned the job of starting goalkeeper to start his freshman year.
For both Kelly and the Irish, 2024 brought ups and…
On September 13, the excitement for the new season was palpable as Irish fans flooded into the stadium for the season’s home opener versus Texas A&M. The crowd’s energy alone could have powered the stadium lights as the Fighting Irish took the field for the first time since last season. The students,…
I had prepared my whole life, or at least every second of high school, for this moment: to attend a top university. Nonetheless, it still felt surreal to leave the only place I had called home to go to college. Despite being an adult and being supposedly ready for this transition, it was shocking…
What was once a crowd favorite serving up acai bowls and quesadillas has now transitioned into a new sushi place. On Wednesday, Sept. 10, 2025, Flip Kitchen was replaced by Fujisan Sushi in Lafortune. While the exterior remains the same, the food is a whole new experience. This new concept features…
There once was a puddle of American folk music. Music poured into this puddle from the poor rural workers across the young nation. From this puddle flowed several genres that today are recast under the moniker “Country” for the sake of your Spotify algorithm. How and why this happened are both fantastic…
If you walk to the south end of campus, just beyond the stadium, you will reach Legends of Notre Dame, a university-owned restaurant and pub. Legends is not typically at the top of students’ lists as a going-out destination, but, four decades ago, the building housed a prime spot for upperclassmen:…