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Vol XXXIV No. 99

Friday, March 2, 2001

  MEN'S BASKETBALL: Irish host Hoyas on Senior Day
By KATHLEEN O'BRIEN
Associate Sports Editor

The Irish have already earned the right to hang a Big East West Division championship banner in the Joyce Center, but they'd like to beat Georgetown Sunday to give seniors Martin Ingelsby and Hans Rasmussen a final home game to tell ... [more]


MEN'S TRACK AND FIELD: Shay looks to double his distance pleasure
By ANDREW SOUKUP
Sports Writer

After its third place finish at the Big East Indoor Championships two weeks ago, the men's track and field team shifted their focus from team performances to individual ones. So when the Irish step onto the track at this weekend's Alex ... [more]


WOMEN'S TRACK: Relay team set to set another record
By ANDREW SOUKUP
Sports Writer

Imagine this — your relay just broke the school record and ran fast enough to earn an NCAA finals consideration time. So, what do you do next? Run faster. That is exactly what the women's 4x400 meter relay team plans to ... [more]


BASEBALL: Notre Dame falls to professional Devil Rays, 17-4
By NOAH AMSTADTER
Assistant Sports Editor

Notre Dame graduate Vince Naimoli faced and interesting dilemma Thursday afternoon. The 1959 graduate is the owner of the major league Tampa Bay Devil Rays, who were playing an exhibition game against the Irish. Despite his loyalty to his alma mater, ... [more]


HOCKEY: Icemen look to tame Broncos, advance to playoffs
By JEFF BALTRUZAK
Sports Writer

The Notre Dame hockey team has risen in the past two weeks like a vampire at nightfall, with a 3-0-2 record in their last five games. This weekend, they face No. 13 Western Michigan in a home-home series that will determine ... [more]


BENGAL BOUTS: Bracing for a final fight
By TIM CASEY
Assistant Sports Editor

The Notre Dame hockey team has risen in the past two weeks like a vampire at nightfall, with a 3-0-2 record in their last five games. This weekend, they face No. 13 Western Michigan in a home-home series that will determine ... [more]


WOMEN'S BASKETBALL: Irish, Huskies on collision course for title game
By TIM CASEY
Assistant Sports Editor

Since Notre Dame stunned Connecticut on Jan. 15, both teams have pointed towards the Big East Championships. Provided the two top seeds win two more games, a rematch would occur on Tuesday night before the usual sell-out crowd at Gampel Pavilion, ... [more]


WOMEN'S BASKETBALL: Irish seniors savor final weeks together
Ivey, Riley, Leahy, Siemon and Dunbar lead Notre Dame into Storrs
By NOAH AMSTADTER
Assistant Sport Editor

It was a sunny morning in Washington, D.C, four years ago when roommates Imani Dunbar and Meaghan Leahy awoke in their hotel room. Perhaps a little too sunny. The two then-freshmen looked at the clock and realized that they had missed ... [more]


WOMEN'S BASKETBALL: Washington brings brains, experience to Irish bench
Tim Casey
Assistant Sports Editor

Coquese Washington's résumé reads like an excerpt from a fiction novel. The 30-year-old Irish assistant coach led Notre Dame to its first NCAA tournament appearance in 1992, received her undergraduate degree in three years, taught special education for a year, graduated ... [more]