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Q&A: Jalen Rose

The Observer's Mike Monaco sat down with three members of ESPN's College GameDay Friday. Read his Q&A with Jalen Rose.

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Q&A: Rece Davis

The Observer's Mike Monaco sat down with three members of ESPN's College GameDay Friday. Read his Q&A with Rece Davis.

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Q&A: Jay Bilas

The Observer's Mike Monaco sat down with three members of ESPN's College GameDay Friday. Read his Q&A with Jay Bilas.

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Live Blog Recap: Louisville 64, Notre Dame 50

Big East tournament Semifinals

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Live Blog Recap: Notre Dame 57, South Florida 53 (OT)

Follow along as Senior Sports Writers Douglas Farmer and Eric Prister watch Notre Dame prevail in a terribly sloppy Big East tournament quarterfinal game.

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Live Blog Recap: Bengal Bouts Finals

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Notre Dame grad Mike Lee stays unbeaten with knockout win

Lee will headline a major boxing event Sept. 16 at Notre Dame

CARSON, Calif. – Three-time Bengal Bouts champion Mike Lee dominated yet another fight Saturday night with a third-round knockout victory over Michael Birthmark at the Home Depot Center.

Fighting on the undercard of the World Lightweight Championship between Urbano Antillon and Brandon Rios, Lee (6-0-0) recorded his fourth career knockout with a powerful right jab that sent his opponent to the floor for the third and final time.

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Live blog: 82nd Blue-Gold Game

Follow along as Observer beat writers Chris Masoud and Andrew Owens blog live from Notre Dame Stadium at the 82nd annual Blue-Gold Game.

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Frozen Festivities: Notre Dame Nation hits St. Paul

Notre Dame may be in enemy territory for its Frozen Four game against Minnesota-Duluth in Saint Paul,Minn., but the Irish hockey nation is alive and well here in the North Star State

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Final Four live blog recap

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Live blog recap - Women's basketball vs. Tennessee

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Live blog recap: NCAA Hockey second round vs. New Hampshire

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Live blog recap - Women's NCAA first round: Notre Dame vs. Utah

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Day One in the Dayton region

Five of the eight games in the Dayton region have taken place today, with Notre Dame-Utah, which begins in half an hour, the last until tomorrow. Here at the Huntsman Center in Salt Lake City, No. 7-seed Temple just finished off No. 10 Arizona State 63-45. Full story

Live Blog Recap: NCAA Round of 64: ND v. Akron

Notre Dame 69, Akron 56

Second-seeded Notre Dame rode 15 points from senior guard Ben Hansbrough and 14 more from fourth-year forward Tim Abromaitis to a 69-56 victory over No. 15-seed Akron Friday.

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Thoughts on the Dayton region from the airport

It is obscenely early in the morning and I'm sitting at the Cleveland airport, drinking coffee and waiting for a plane to whisk me away to sunny, exotic Utah. I'm also thinking about the Dayton region of the tournament.

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A quick look through the Southwest Regional

Sans research or even second thoughts

As soon as CBS announced Duke as the fourth No. 1-seed in this year's NCAA tournament, the primary question for Notre Dame fans became, which No. 1-seed would the Irish be paired with?

The answer: Kansas – quite possibly the last of the four most Notre Dame fans wanted to see.

But, perhaps the regional is still tilted in favor of the Irish

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Expert predicts ND as national champions

If any Notre Dame fans are having trouble believing the Irish could be a legitimate national championship contender, don't take it from me:

"At this moment, give me Ohio State, Duke, Notre Dame and Kansas State to reach the Final Four, with the Fighting Irish winning it all.

And I can't believe I just typed that sentence.

But I'll stick with it at least until tomorrow morning."

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Live Blog Recap: ND v. Louisville in the Big East Semifinals

Douglas Farmer, with a brief appearance from Eric Prister, keeps up with Notre Dame's 83-77 overtime loss to Louisville in the Big East semifinals Friday night.

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Live blog recap: Notre Dame vs. Connecticut (Women's Big East championship game)

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2001 Big East championship flashback

With only 5.1 seconds remaining in the 2001 Big East championship game, Connecticut legend Sue Bird caught the inbounds pass, traveled down the length of the floor and hit a buzzer-beating jumper to lift the No. 2 Huskies over No. 1 Notre Dame to win the conference title. Full story

Bruszewski doubtful for championship game

Irish senior forward and leader Becca Bruszewski had to exit last night's 71-67 victory over No. 9 DePaul with just under four minutes remaining after taking a hard hit to her ribs. She was unable to reenter the game.

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