Photo by Michael Reaves/Getty Images That’s 10 ply bud The triumverate is still on break this week, but Joshua caught wind of some hellishly weak comments from USC head coach Lincoln Riley about the possible future of the Trojan’s rivalry game with the Notre Dame Fighting Irish. It’s Big 10 media days, and the L.A. coaches are making a bit of an impression. While one can’t get words to come out of his mouth, there’s another that gave the weakest words. Give it a listen. Please RATE and REVIEW! All reviews left on Apple Podcasts will be read on the next Earned 5-Star Podcast. You can listen to ..read more

Fightin’ for the Cotton Bowl For this week’s Throwback Thursday post, we take a trip down memory lane to revisit the storied matchup between Notre Dame and Louisiana State University in 1970. This game, filled with fierce competition and heightened emotions, was immortalized in the 1970 Notre Dame Football Review published in Scholastic Magazine. Set against the backdrop of a season filled with high stakes and fierce rivalries, the anticipation for this game was palpable. The narrative captures the essence of college football in that era, where every game was a battle, and the pride of univer ..read more

I mean... these are pretty good On Wednesday, the Notre Dame Fighting Irish unveiled their Shamrock Series uniforms for this season’s edition which will take place inside Yankee Stadium against the Army Black Knights (and possibly a Blue-Gray Sky too). Sell Like a Champion Today#GoIrish☘️ pic.twitter.com/c8OJQrHK0Q — Notre Dame Football (@NDFootball) July 24, 2024 While I don’t think the parody of “Wolf of Wall Street” comes close top being as good as the one in 2022 when they did “The Hangover” for the Shamrock Series in Las Vegas — the uniform itself (in my opinion) is on the same level ..read more

Photo by Michael Hickey/NCAA Photos via Getty Images Another Irish athlete in the Olympics Another former Notre Dame athlete will participate in the 2024 Olympics in Paris. From the ND press release: Former Notre Dame center Lauren Ebo is an Olympian. On Wednesday, Team Nigeria announced their Olympic roster, and it includes the Washington, D.C., native who finished her collegiate career as a graduate student at Notre Dame in 2022-23. She averaged 9 points and 7 rebounds over 28 games while in South Bend. Women’s basketball at the 2024 Paris Olympics begins on July 29 with pool play. Nigeria ..read more

Photo by Alex Slitz/Getty Images She’s good Notre Dame basketball fans are already well aware of the greatness of Arike Ogunbowale, and fans of the WNBA know it too. She’s pretty awesome, and her All-Star Game performance adds to her rise. From the ND press release: For the second time in her already storied career, Arike Ogunbowale is a WNBA All-Star Game MVP. On Saturday, the 2019 Notre Dame graduate earned the honor after posting 34 points, 6 assists and 2 steals. Her 34 points set a new record for points in a WNBA All-Star Game. She went 10-20 from the floor and 8-13 from deep as Team WNB ..read more

Matt Cashore-USA TODAY Sports And all of the CFB things It’s a busy week for the fellas, but I hit record on the podcast machine to ask a simple (but seemingly complicated) question about the Notre Dame Football season. How do you plan on doing Fighting Irish Football this college football season? Are you going to Notre Dame Stadium for a game or two? What are your tailgate plans? What away games are you eying? What’s left on that honey-do list? I want to hear ALL about it. You can do so by leaving a review on Apple Podcasts and/or the comment section of the podcast article on One Foot Down. I ..read more

Photo by Michael Miller/ISI Photos/Getty Images “X” marks the spot We’ve finally reached the conclusion of previewing Notre Dame football’s position groups on the 2024 roster. Last up are the safeties. Scholarship players: 8 Average 247Sports Composite Rating: 0.8915* Projected Starters: Xavier Watts** and Rod Heard * Jordan Clark and Luke Talich were excluded from calculating this rating. Notre Dame lists Clark as a safety, but he was included in the cornerback position group spotlight rather than this one (and thus was omitted from calculating this average) because he is the projected starti ..read more

Photo by Joseph Weiser/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images Riley, Steve, Kenny, and CJ Off-Season Hot Takes Welcome to Notre Dame Fighting Irish, Positional Hot Takes. As a reminder to all of the readers, this is HEAVILY driven by you and comments are strongly encouraged. The thought here is to bring in your HOT takes only as this is the off season. The payoff will be much longer, but these pages will live in perpetuity (big word) for you to tell your friends, family, and strangers that you, “called it”. Since this isn’t geared towards specific games, I will go position by position with my own ta ..read more

Pretty Back in 2018 when the Notre Dame Fighting Irish went 12-0 in the regular season and went to the College Football Playoff to take on the Clemson Tigers in the Cotton Bowl, they got a new uniform version that Under Armour called “Rush For Gold.” The subtle changes were universally liked by fans, and we have wondered for years why they didn’t just those as their full-time uniforms. With another tweak — we OFFICIALLY just got that. Notre Dame is different ☘️ As seen on @FirstTake our 2024 home jerseys are officially official#GoIrish☘️ pic.twitter.com/qxEh0O0dEW — Notre Dame Football (@N ..read more

Steven Branscombe-USA TODAY Sports A couple of Jacks The MLB Draft took place this week, and two Notre Dame players were among the names called. IF Jack Penny — 147th overall (5th round) Detroit Tigers My beloved Tigers just got more beloved as Jack Penny was one of my favorite Irish baseball players over the last couple of seasons. From Bless You Boys: What makes Penney a good fit for what the Tigers want to do on the field is his intelligent approach at the plate. He had a reputation as a calming presence in the Fighting Irish dugout, and he carries that demeanor with him to the plate. The ..read more