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Football: Heading outdoors

By The Observer · Wednesday, April 6, 2011

Notre Dame practiced outdoors Wednesday for the first time during the spring season, giving Irish coach Brian Kelly a different view of his squad as the 82nd annual Blue-Gold exhibition quickly approaches.

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Talented Minnesota-Duluth finally breaks through

By The Observer · Tuesday, April 5, 2011

It happens every year. Stinging from one last defeat at the hands of a familiar opponent to end the season, disappointed in the previous year's campaign and frustrated that its talent has not broken through, a team sets a goal — reach the Frozen Four. Rare is the team that can actually accomplish that goal, and rarer still do the stars line up as they have for Minnesota-Duluth. With the Frozen Four just a few hours down the road, in the very same arena that ended their season last year at the hands of North Dakota, the Bulldogs saw a golden opportunity and capitalized.

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Bulldogs await Notre Dame

By The Observer · Tuesday, April 5, 2011

When the Irish first reached the Frozen Four in 2008, then-freshmen Calle Ridderwall, Ben Ryan and Ryan Guentzel entered the Pepsi Center with wide eyes. Now seniors, their eyes display focus instead — a focus they feel is crucial to pass on to Notre Dame's 12 freshmen if the Irish are to claim the program's first-ever national championship.

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Man of the hour

By The Observer · Tuesday, April 5, 2011

There's a very good reason that Mike Johnson leads Notre Dame onto the ice before every game he plays.

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Nine-time champ Michigan seeks 10th title

By The Observer · Tuesday, April 5, 2011

Heading into the Frozen Four, each participant has a set of intangibles that it believes could provide an edge. North Dakota is the highest-ranked team, Minnesota-Duluth has home-state advantage, and Notre Dame is coming in with an underdog, "might as well be us" mindset and little pressure.

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Owens: Irish will reload in 2011-2012

By The Observer · Tuesday, April 5, 2011

INDIANAPOLIS — When the final seconds ticked off the clock in Notre Dame's 76-70 loss in the championship game, green, blue and yellow confetti streamed down from the rafters in a moment of celebration for Texas A&M — the first championship in school history.

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ND Softball: Irish prepared to battle Badgers

By The Observer · Monday, April 4, 2011

With a coach that just captured her 400th victory, a captain that was named Big East Player of the Week after smashing Notre Dame's career RBI record, a pitching staff that is finally hitting its stride and five wins in their first six home games, the Irish are coming off a successful week. With that momentum, Notre Dame (21-7, 3-0 Big East) will head to Madison, Wis., to take on the Badgers.

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ND Women's Basketball: Title Time?

By The Observer · Monday, April 4, 2011

Notre Dame can put the finishing touches on one of the most remarkable seasons in NCAA tournament history when it faces Texas A&M tonight in the championship game.

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ND Women's Basketball: Title time?

By The Observer · Monday, April 4, 2011

Notre Dame can put the finishing touches on one of the most remarkable seasons in NCAA tournament history when it faces Texas A&M tonight in the championship game.

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SMC Golf: Belles take lead after first round

By The Observer · Monday, April 4, 2011

Despite nearly unplayable conditions, No. 12 Saint Mary's grabbed a three-shot lead in the opening round of the Southwestern University Invitational in Georgetown, Texas, to come out of day one in first place.

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