McSweeney
40 articles
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How many guys have run the spread and made it past college to the next level?
“Tell me how many guys have run the spread and made it past college to the next level.” –Ryan Mallet, former UM QB, Detroit News, 1/10/2008 Take these…
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Trevor Laws not an All-American? The AP can kiss my Irish ass!
For those who haven’t been paying attention, on December 11 the Associated Press announced its All-Americans for 2007. To quote the AP article, When it comes to being…
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Urban Meyer Is a Lying Sack of Crap
What’s it going to take to shut this guy up? First he bashes the BCS system only to quietly backtrack when his Gators end up in the Championship…
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2001-2002: The last “great” Notre Dame defenses?
I believe new defensive coordinator Corwin Brown will resurrect the the Irish defense. Name me another college DC who can list as references on his resume Bill Parcells,…
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I hereby retract my comments regarding the Gators and the SEC
No smartass commentary here, folks. Coach Urban Meyer and his Florida Gators earned this one. They outhustled, outmuscled, outplayed, outcoached, and outhearted Ohio State in every facet of…
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Bucknuts…or just plain old nuts?
Not even 12 hours after Brady Quinn “shocked” the college football world by winning the Maxwell Award, and some asinine Buckeyes fan writes an article quite nearly devoid of…
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The Sugar Bowl: A “Capital” Opportunity?
Stop me if you’ve heard this one… The pundits said they had no chance in their January bowl game. Outmanned and outgunned on both sides of the…
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I hereby retract my comments re: the Gators and the SEC
No smartass commentary here, folks. Coach Urban Meyer and his Florida Gators earned this one. They outhustled, outmuscled, outplayed, outcoached, and outhearted Ohio State in every facet of…
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Troy Smith vs. Brady Quinn: The 3.3% Doctrine
Last Saturday night I found myself halfway catatonic and all-the-way hungover on my friend’s couch in Annapolis. The Navy-ND game had ended with an Irish victory and about…
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Notre Dame v. Michigan State 1966: The Original Game of the Century
Contrary to what all ND fans under the age of 25 might think, the ’93 Notre Dame-Florida State game was nowhere near the first matchup to be specifically…
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Hail, Hail, to Michigan, the champions of the…what exactly?
Michigan week is upon us, a nauseous back-and-forth pissing contest about who has the better fight song, who has the better helmet, who has the better tradition. Michigan…
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Remembering the Penn State Rivalry
“I just don’t think there’s anybody in the land who can outcoach Joe Paterno.” –Lou Holtz “Let’s be practical here and think about what we’re talking about. [Coach Paterno]…
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Notre Dame 12-time National Champions?
As we all know, especially in recent years with the whole idiots-running-the-nuthouse trainwreck that is the BCS, crowning a true college football national champion is far from an exact science.…
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126: The Coolest Notre Dame “Streak” No One Knows About
While chatting up some of my fellow Irishmen on uhnd one day, I asked them to come up with the most random Notre Dame-related statistic they could find.…
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Georgia Tech – Notre Dame: A Bigger Deal Than You Might Think
Great, Georgia Tech. What am I supposed to make of a team that can’t even settle on a mascot? Is it the Ramblin’ Wreck or the Yellow Jackets?…