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INDIANAPOLIS -- The point that Kathryn Wilson won a singles state championship required her only to hit a serve. A grueling, high-level tennis match on Saturday was finally nearing an end. Wilson, of Columbus North, smashed a serve near the left corner of a service box. South Bend St. Joseph’s Molly Bellia stretched to her right, flicking a backhand over the net.

SOUTH BEND — When record-setting slugger Abby Robakowski and her New Prairie High School softball teammates play Friday night for the first state 3A championship in program history, a large contingent of familiar faces will be on hand at Purdue’s Bittinger Stadium to lend their support. “The community here is very tight-knit,” Cougars athletic director Ben Bachmann said this week in a phone interview. “This is really a community school. When we have situations like this, it’s...

(West Lafayette, IN) - New Prairie High School history was made Friday night. The girls’ softball team brought home the school’s first team state championship. The Lady Cougars held off Tri-West Hendricks for a 4-2 victory at Purdue’s Bittinger Stadium in West Lafayette. Senior Makayla Collins hit...

Certain themes seem to persist over the decades regarding Notre Dame Football. Whether it is narratives from fans or media, one such theme is the Irish “closing the gap” regarding the talent differential and ultimate results between Notre Dame and those programs that win playoff games and titles. Kelly spoke of ” shopping down a different aisle” to acquire talent at Notre Dame. Folks often speak about stringent academics, cold weather, tough undergraduate transfer admission policies, NIL, and pay-for-play. We’ve heard it all. I’ve written and spoken about it all.

The spring transfer portal window has long since passed, so we can say this with complete certainty: Every former Notre Dame player to enter it this offseason has found a new home. As those players have started to settle in with their current teams, Fighting Irish fans can start to evaluate how much the transfer portal hurt them this year.

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A succession plan has already been put in place for the athletic director, who has been in that role with Fighting Irish athletics since July 2008.

He took over after Kevin White left South Bend for the same role at Duke in 2008. While an athletic director has to worry about far more than football, Notre Dame’s athletic director will always be most judged by that program, and the Irish were coming off their losingest season ever, going 3-9 in 2007.

Watching Notre Dame’s Sept. 16 game against Central Michigan might have just gotten more challenging if you’re an Xfinity subscriber. You probably didn’t bat an eye when it was announced that this particular would be available only on Peacock. Well, you’ll want to rethink that because it was announced that some Xfinity customers will lose their free access to Peacock’s starter package after June 26. That access reportedly will continue for a two-year period for those with Xfinity’s gig-speed internet.

Less than a month after receiving an offer from Notre Dame, Anthony Williams‍ was in South Bend for Irish Invasion this past weekend. “It went great,” the 2025 Texas linebacker told Irish Sports Daily afterward. “I liked it. I liked how the coaches are hands-on with us.

Buchanan's girls softball team remembered it all season. Last year's 1-0 loss to Parchment in the Division 3 regional semifinals stuck in their minds. "We talked about how last year felt," Buck coach Rachel Carlson said. "We weren't okay with that. We worked all year to make ourselves better to avoid that."

WEST LAFAYETTE — The Tri-West High School softball team’s focus this spring was on having fun. A way to help alleviate the pressure of the championship expectations that many ascribed to this group, the 2023 Bruins took time before each game to remember when they were that 8-10-year-old girl who on Saturday morning went to the ballpark with her pink batting helmet, black-and-pink mitt and pink batting gloves, and just loved the game. ...

The annual Epson Tour golf tournament is back in South Bend this summer. It will feature items like homemade shortcakes, ice cream with whipped toppings, and of course… fresh strawberries!

Notre Dame has 13 official visitors expected on campus this weekend as the Fighting Irish staff continues their busy summer in the 2024 recruiting class. Blue & Gold has the names due in for Marcus Freeman and Co. and what you need to know ahead of the weekend. The post Visitor preview: Big recruiting weekend at Notre Dame includes a five-star prospect appeared first on On3.

Notre Dame football fans should feel fortunate. Marcus Freeman went into the portal this offseason and landed arguably the highest-impact quarterback on the market. Sam Hartman spent five years with Wake Forest and put up some incredible numbers. He started pretty much every year he was in Winston-Salem and finished with 12,967 career passing yards, 38 touchdowns, an 8.1 yards per attempt average, and a completion rate just around 59 percent. Not bad for a quarterback who attempted nearly 1,600 career passes.

It was just a few days ago that Las Vegas, Nevada wide receiver Derek Meadows was offered by Notre Dame. That offer to the Bishop Gorman star looks like it held a lot of weight as On3’s Mike Singer has already logged a prediction for the Irish to land the talented receiver.

Sam Hartman makes Notre Dame a better football team. The Fighting Irish are undoubtedly better off due to having Hartman under center for the coming season. Yet, as our friends at Fighting Irish Wire note, an anonymous assistant coach who spoke to Athlon Sports isn’t fully sold on the larger support structure surrounding Hartman. In terms of both personnel and scheme, there are reasons to think Hartman might not max out the way he did at Wake Forest.

In what way does former Notre Dame quarterback Ian Book compare to current QB Sam Hartman? An anonymous college coach says how right here. The post What an anonymous coach told Lindy’s Sports about Notre Dame football in 2023 appeared first on On3.