Today's Stories
  • Sports
    • FOOTBALL: What happened to O'Leary? O'Leary told ESPN he was asked to resign; White, Malloy said he resigned multiple times (By NOAH AMSTADTER Sports Editor)
      Notre Dame Athletic Director Kevin White and University President Father Edward Malloy stepped to the podium Tuesday to usher in the Tyrone Willingham era at Notre Dame. But when the off-camera interview session came around, both had questions to answer about the previous administration — George O'Leary's five-day reign.
    • COLUMN: Race shouldn't be an issue (By ANDREW SOUKUP Associate Sports Editor)
      On New Year's Day, Tyrone Willingham was hired as the first black head coach at Notre Dame. Significant? You bet. Historical? Sure.
    • WOMEN'S BASKETBALL: Young Irish show improvement over break (By KATIE McVOY Associate Sports Editor)
      The Irish have a different look. They've tried some new line-ups. The young players look more at home on the court. But most importantly, they're winning games.
    • 4 Belles out for season after games in Hawaii (By JOE HETTLER Sports Writer)
      Despite having an array of injuries, the Saint Mary's basketball team played its best basketball of the season on a recent trip to Hawaii and came home with a two-game split.
    • Mattison, 7 Stanford assistants form new staff (By NOAH AMSTADTER Sports Editor)
      Weeks into his new job, Tyrone Willingham's staff appears complete — with one old face and eight coaches from different programs. An official announcement is expected after the coaches clear Notre Dame's public relations office.
    • COLUMN: How to get a job (By KEVIN BERCHOU Sports Writer)
      I'll have to admit that I used to be a little worried about my employment prospects following my hopeful graduation from college. After all, the economy is in a slump that has lasted longer than your average Notre Dame head coaching tenure and besides, I have few marketable skills and as for experience well, I'm hoping to get me some of that.
    • Irish bounce back into contention (By MATT ORENCHUK Sports Writer)
      Hold on to your hats everybody, because the Notre Dame hockey team might be onto something big.
    • Offensive woes plague 12-4 Irish over break (By KERRY SMITH Sports Writer)
      After going 2-3 since Christmas, the 12-4 men's basketball team is evaluating where it stands heading into the thick of the Big East season.

  • Inside
    • Layover at the gas station (by SHEILA EGTS Copy Editor)
      Since Monday I've heard a lot of horror stories of delayed flights and lost luggage that plagued holiday travel, but I have yet to hear one that compares to my clash with brutal Mother Nature in a near-death experience. Well, not quite near-death, but let's just say I would rather have a bird crap in my hair on my wedding day than experience this again.

  • Viewpoint
    • Take pride in Catholic tradition (Charles Rice Right or Wrong?)
      In announcing Notre Dame's plan to spend $500 million on new building projects, Vice President Timothy R. Scully, said, "We really feel a deep responsibility to build the world's leading Catholic university." A worthy objective. But the Catholic Church alone has authority to define the "Catholic university." John Paul II did so in 1990 in Ex Corde Ecclesiae, the apostolic constitution on Catholic higher education.
    • Getting past suffocating "tunnel vision" (Sandhya Acharya What's Your Shade?)
      Recently a group of 15 students set out on a week-long experience. The focus was "Issues of Diversity in an Urban Setting." I was serving as the student coordinator for this group — a part of the Cultural Diversity Seminar and our intention was to expose students to different conditions and perspectives than those they were used to within Notre Dame and thus give them a better insight about the world around us.
    • Praise new coach on his own merit (Nick Ismert class of '99)
      I wish a black man, Alan Keyes, were president — but it has nothing to do with the fact he is black. I hope a black man, Cardinal Arinze, becomes the next pope — but that he is black matters not at all for me. I am glad Tyrone Willingham is the new football coach — but I do not care what color his skin is.
    • A plea for parietals at Georgetown (Blake Roberts The Hoya)
      The moral life of [Georgetown's] campus is in crisis. The Catholic identity of our great university is threatened. John Carroll shudders as he looks down upon what has come of his once great college. Ever since the end of the '60s, when females were first admitted to all fields of study to this once holy campus, our hilltop has become a den of iniquity and fornication.
    • Quote of the Day (St. Augustine Catholic philosopher)
      "Rome has spoken, the case is ended."
    • Poll Question (Vote at NDToday.com by Thursday at 5 p.m. )
      Was the hiring of Tyrone Willingham the right choice for Notre Dame?

  • News
    • Hesburgh passes on Olympic torch (By JASON McFARLEY News Editor)
      In the end, the starring role in Notre Dame's month-long football drama went to man who auditioned for it first.
    • Craig Kilborn to salute ND (By KIFLIN TURNER Assistant News Editor)
      The Late Show with Craig Kilborn will showcase Notre Dame tonight as a part of its weekly salute to America's colleges and universities.
    • Willingham first-ever black ND head coach Jackson, others praise coaching choice (By Noah Amstadter Sports Editor)
      By Noah Amstadter

  • Scene
    • Expanding horizons The Snite Museum of Art reinstalls the Christensen family's collection of African art (By C. SPENCER BEGGS Scene Editor)
      Sometimes the best way to look at a culture is to see the way in which they look at themselves. "Mask and Figures, Form and Style: The Christensen Family Collects African Art," a reinstallation of a portion of the Snite Museum of Art's African art collection, gives patrons a glimpse of how traditional African cultures understood their world; a world so different from, but at the same time relevant to, our own.