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Why Notre Dame Plays Navy

Doug Watt
Doug Watt
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Notre Dame is second only to the Naval Academy in the number of students that become commissioned Naval officers. There is a shared history between the two schools.

This Saturday, the longest intersectional rivalry in college football history will continue. Notre Dame will meet Navy in Dublin, Ireland.

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Doug Watt
Doug Watt
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The mad dash of leaving and joining a conference in college football is more complicated than just the impact on college football tradition. There may be big paydays for college football, but millions of dollars for conference basketball, softball, soccer, swimming, volleyball, gymnastics, and baseball traveling expenses will dig deep into any revenues earned through […]
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Disaster on the Pitch

Doug Watt
Doug Watt
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The US women’s Team’s exit from the knockout stage of the World Cup has any number of pundits offering many reasons and rationalizations for their demise.

I’ll start with the time zone difference for their matches in the New Zealand and Australian venues for the World Cup. Some of their games began at 11 p.m. to 12 a.m. on the West Coast. You can do the math for your own time zone. I watched their first two matches and what I saw was their second problem.

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The Pac-12 Is Now the Pac-4

Doug Watt
Doug Watt
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A 100-year history in college sports is ending.  Barring some sort of miracle, or a negotiated deal there will only be four schools left in the Pac-12.

USC and UCLA were the first to leave to join the Big-10. The University of Oregon and the University of Washington have announced their decisions to join the Big-10. Utah, Arizona State, and Arizona are headed to the Big-12. There will be four members left in the Pac-12. Stanford, Oregon State, Washington State, and Cal.

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Alley Baseball

Juliana
Juliana
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I love baseball. I grew up playing baseball. Not exactly sure when it all started. I remember playing in the yard with my tricycle and cap gun. But as soon as the moms in the neighborhood let us kids play in the alley, it was baseball. There was a mix of boys and girls down the street, so in order to have two ‘teams,’ we all had to join in. Teams were generally three against three, with plenty of invisible men on second throughout the games.

When I was in second grade, so around age 7, I got hit in the head with a baseball bat. I was the catcher. But since I hadn’t been taught how to catch a baseball and my hands were way too small for a mitt, I was standing behind the batter. She took a big swing and I was down on the gravel, bloody. I could see and hear the panic around me, but my cousin’s mom calmly sat me on her knee and tried to stop the blood. Then the contingent walked me back home.

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Richard Easton
Richard Easton
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Even if you’re not a chess player, watch how they react when Magnus blunders around 2:18 in the video. Magnus makes his move and then realizes he’s lost. Levon can’t believe that Magnus made that move. He looks away not wanting to gloat but has a little smile. https://youtu.be/D6nzqQWg_pc Preview Open
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John H.
John H.
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Demands made on computers nowadays often being silly, I am not embarrassed to suggest these devices might be used to model rule-changes in baseball. And sensing that extra-inning games have become extra unpopular, I have some ideas, not necessarily original, to address or even solve such a problem. If a game is tied at the […]
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Our Lady of Victory: SF Giants-15, Dodgers-Nun

Doug Watt
Doug Watt
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There is the Siege of Malta, the Battle of Lepanto, the Winged Hussars of Poland breaking the Turkish Siege of Vienna, and on Saturday night, the Victory at Chavez Ravine.

The San Francisco Giants shut out the Los Angeles Dodgers Saturday night 15-0. An 125-year historic beating.

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John H.
John H.
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I don’t have many, but the ones I do have may be instructive. One is that Ministries of Sport are like post offices: they just deliver stuff. That is, as post offices simply move mail, so sports ministries just as simply distribute subventions – neither government apparatus enforces many rules, or makes policy, or even […]
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Doug Watt
Doug Watt
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Dodger fans have a history of violence. If they cannot find a fan of an opposing team to attack, they will fight with each other in the stadium, or in the parking lot. At a Padres game in San Diego they attacked Padres’ fans. Their reputation as being the most violent fans in Major League […]
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Doug Watt
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Notre Dame earned their first Lacrosse National Championship during the Memorial Day weekend. There are a lot of reasons to be cynical about sports, for example the Los Angeles Dodgers decision to honor a Catholic hate group, but sometimes there is something to celebrate. ‘God, Country, Notre Dame’ is etched in stone over a door […]
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Is This Hockey?

JimGoneWild
JimGoneWild
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I watched a hockey game and noticed something. Sweden and Lavtia were squaring off with no social messages. No ribbons sown to their jerseys. No pink helmet stickers. No “Stop Hate” on their backs, but — this is really strange — just their names. What is up with that? I mean, I didn’t even see a rainbow flag (should “rainbow” be capitalized?) anywhere on or near the ice. Not even a tiny BLM flag in the crowd.

We’re talking Sweden here! A country known for its champion bikini team, Nobel prizes, and meatballs. I’m so confused.

But check this out: on two of the corners, outside the glass, were two platformed automobiles — Skodas. One was a station wagon — who does that? And both were gas models! The nerve.

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Jim Brown R.I.P.

JimGoneWild
JimGoneWild
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I saw Jim Brown at a Broncos vs. Browns game at the old Mile High Stadium.  That was when a fan could walk on the outer perimeter of the field — unheard of today. A friend and I walked up to the visiting team entrance, they pull a temporary fence across the fan track while the team comes out. Jim, in civies, African cap and retired, rolled out. And when I say he rolled,  that’s exactly what I mean — the Jim Brown Roll. Let me describe: he kind of tucked his chin down near his shoulder, and heal-to-toe walked, eyes ominously straight ahead.

My friend yelled out “Jim, Jim Brown” multiple times. No effect.  Jim rolled on. If a brick wall had jumped in front of him, he would not have blinked,  but rolled right through it. The wall may have exploded and killed us all, but Jim would have rolled on.

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