| Vol XXXV No. 133 |
Friday, April 26, 2002 |
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Baseball: Showdown at the Eck
Former Irish coach brings 17th-ranked Sun Devils
By CHRIS FEDERICO
Sports Editor
 Today, the Notre Dame baseball team hosts 17th-ranked Arizona State, led by former Irish coach Pat Murphy. The game marks the first time the former Irish coach returns to campus after taking the head baseball coach job with the Sun Devils ... [more]
Quality coaches collide
by Chris Federico
Sports Editor
Sometimes it seems like things just work out for the best. Today the Irish baseball team hosts Arizona State — and former Notre Dame head coach Pat Murphy — for a two-game series against the 17th-ranked Sun Devils. It will be ... [more]
Bookstore Basketball XXXI: No. 6 Splitters knock out SP Shockers again
By MIKE CONNOLLY
Senior Staff Writer
Van Giles inside game opened up the Splitters outside shooters as the No. 6 seed beat No. 11 SP Shockers II, 21-14. Giles consistently scored on the inside, picking up six points and demanding double teams almost every possession. "Usually if ... [more]
Bookstore Basketball XXXI: Mourning Wood and Dime Pieces go to extra time for decision
By ANDY TROEGER
Sports Writer
While the top seven seeds were challenged in Bookstore Basketball action Thursday, all of them held form to advance in tightly contested games. The most competitive game of the evening came in the No. 7 seed vs. No. 10 seed game ... [more]
SMC Softball: Belles to play final 3 games
By NATALIE BAILEY
Sports Writer
Coming off two losses against Calvin Wednesday, the Belles enter their three final games of this season this weekend. The Belles will face Hope College today at 3 p.m., Ancilla Saturday at noon and Franklin Sunday at 1p.m., all on their ... [more]
Women's Lacrosse: Irish bounce back to whip Wildcats
By CHRIS COLEMAN
Sports Writer
Maybe all the Notre Dame women's lacrosse team needed was a wake-up call to remind them that they are the 10th best team in country. The Irish put Saturday's loss to Georgetown behind them in an 11-3 victory over Northwestern Thursday. ... [more]
Women's Rowing: Big East field up next for Irish rowers
By MARK ZAVODNYIK
Sports Writer
After a week off, the Notre Dame Women's rowing team returns to action this weekend at the Big East Rowing Challenge in Worcester, Mass. Other than Miami and Villanova, the Irish have yet to face any Big East foes this year. ... [more]
ND Softball: Irish hope to avoid letdown
By MATT LOZAR
Sports Writer
After defeating a top-ranked opponent, all of the hard work is lost if the team suffers a letdown in its next game. Coming into Thursday's game against 5-24 IUPU-Fort Wayne, the Notre Dame softball team knew maintaining a high energy level ... [more]
Track and Field: Men's and women's squads to race at Drake
By NOAH AMSTADTER
Senior Staff Writer
Both the Irish men's and women's 4x400-meter relay teams qualified to compete at this weekend's Drake Relays in Des Moines, Iowa. But when they take the track, they face completely different odds. The women's squad — comprised of sophomores Ayesha Boyd ... [more]
Football: Expectations raised high one more time
by Katie McVoy
Associate Sports Editor
It's spring and the usual signs that spring is here have hit campus — Pig Tostal, frisbee on the quad, snow and the Blue-Gold game. This year, like every year, expectations are high as spring practice ends and fans look ahead ... [more]
Football: Hearing the music
Willingham established his reputation because he relentlessly pursued perfection. Now he's expected to lead the tradition-rich Irish football program back to national prominence.
By ANDREW SOUKUP
Sports Writer
A few days after Notre Dame hired Kevin White, the new athletic director received a lunch invitation from Donald Keough, former chairman of the Notre Dame Board of Trustees. During that first meeting with one of the most powerful men at ... [more]
Football: Mattison finds stability after riding coaching roller coaster
By ANDREW SOUKUP
Sports Writer
No roller coaster had more peaks and valleys than the one Greg Mattison rode in December. First, Bob Davie's firing left Mattison unsure where he'd be coaching in 2002. Then George O'Leary was hired, who in turn re-hired Mattison. But just ... [more]
Football: Walters finally finds himself at Notre Dame
By KATIE McVOY
Associate Sports Editor
Life has a funny way of working out. That's something to which Notre Dame secondary coach Trent Walters can attest. Nine years ago Walters worked under defensive coordinator Bob Davie at Texas A&M before Davie came to Notre Dame. When he ... [more]
Football: Preston pushes for victory on and off the field
By JOE HETTLER
Assistant Sports Editor
When talking about football, Notre Dame running backs and special teams coach Buzz Preston sounds a lot like head coach Tyrone Willingham. Both expect the same things out of their players and have similar philosophies on football — they want their ... [more]
Football: Baer comes from Japan to Notre Dame
By JOE HETTLER
Assistant Sports Editor
Defensive coordinator Kent Baer did not begin his collegiate football coaching career in the United States, but overseas in Japan as the head coach of the Yokosuka Seahawks (United States Navy) team for four years. Once he got back on to ... [more]
Football: Simmons and wife are a perfect match
By JOE HETTLER
Assistant Sports Editor
Linebackers coach Bob Simmons has been through more than most in his profession. Four years ago he needed a kidney transplant. His wife happened to be a perfect match, and she donated a kidney to her husband. "It was very much ... [more]
Football: Diedrick returns from Canada to family
By ANDREW SOUKUP
Sports Writer
If Bill Diedrick didn't have a family, chances are pretty good he'd still be in Canada. The current Notre Dame offensive coordinator spent two years in the Canadian Football League as offensive coordinator for the Edmonton Eskimos. Life was good for ... [more]
Football: Miles focuses on coaching from the beginning
By KATIE McVOY
Associate Sports Editor
In 1986, Trent Miles played his last football game on a Thursday night. By Monday, the Indiana State graduate was coaching. Miles, Notre Dame's newest wide receivers coach, had aspirations of playing in the NFL but wound up coaching there instead ... [more]
Football: McDonnell brings lifelong
offensive line mentality to Irish
By CHRIS FEDERICO
Sports Writer
He's done it nearly all his life. From his days as a tackle and four-year starter at small Carroll College in the late 1970s to his life now beneath the Golden Dome, first-year offensive line coach John McDonell has always thought ... [more]
Football: Denbrock makes the move to stay with quality coach
By CHRIS FEDERICO
Sports Editor
It didn't take much coercion to get offensive line coach Mike Denbrock to leave his position at Stanford and follow head coach Tyrone Willingham to Notre Dame. Even though he had only coached with Willingham for that one year with ... [more]
Women's Bookstore: Who's Getting Lucky Tonight? advances to final 4
By MIKE CONNOLLY
Senior Staff Writer
No. 4 Who's Getting Lucky Tonight? finally met its match athletically in No. 5 Tanned Mullets Thursday afternoon, but still pulled out a 21-15 win. Lucky, with four current or former Welsh Hall interhall football players, were challenged by the height ... [more]
Players to watch
Observer Staff Report
Quarterbacks Which player will be taking the snap come fall is still up in the air. Carlyle Holiday was Notre Dame's man last year after sophomore Matt LoVecchio (bottom right) struggled in the first two games of last season, but LoVecchio ... [more]
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