I get that the Notre Dame defense played great over the last two months of the 2025 season but an entire day to honor the coordinator feels a little excessive?

Here it is, your moment of zen.

This is really good. "This is a regional sport that became national because so much of the nation fell in love with it and wanted to become awesome at it. And that spirit appears to be the thing some are most willing to eliminate."

Notre Dame still needs to string together more than a couple games of good basketball in a row but we will take blowout wins in Quad 1 contests. Great team effort and Hannah Hidalgo fingerprints all over this. Also shoutout Gisela Sanchez who has really contributed after some struggles.

@jessicasmetana.bsky.social @lucyrohden.bsky.social (and @tricerapops.bsky.social for the song choice)

When you see a story about a scattershot idea from the Big Ten offices (ESPN's latest on a 24-team bracket, for example) it's because Tony Petitti needs to find a way to make the number go up for next TV deal because right now they aren't delivering ratings. rakesreport.substack.com/p/rakes-repo...

A commercial for The Pitt between Soni/Marina (really fun game but I think Unrivaled needs to maybe tweak the one-on-one rules) and Arike playing is very on brand.

A commercial for The Pitt between Soni/Marina (really fun game but I think Unrivaled needs to maybe tweak the one-on-one rules) and Arike playing is very on brand.

Marina Mabrey vs. Sonia Citron should start around 7:30 p.m. ET on TruTV. Arike will play her game around 8. Do I have a gif for this occasion? Yes. Is Rudy on TruTV following tonight's Unrivaled action for some reason? Also yes. ☘️

Gold Medal Soni hopefully incoming (and another one for Jackie obvi)

Respect to Sweden, Isabella Wrana is a bespectacled assassin.

Locked in, let's go 🇺🇸

✉️ new newsletter ✉️ Hitting a bunch of random stuff including ☘️ Congrats to Julian Love and Rylie Mills ☘️ The Henry and Jean-Mary hires ☘️ Jersey number astrology ☘️ Draft/schedule updates ☘️ Checking in on the Notre Dame basketball teams Give it a read. rakesreport.substack.com/p/rakes-repo...

Kenneth Walker MVP of the Super Bowl and also of getting Mel Tucker paid so much money.

om nom nom

Julian Love, baby. ☘️

These final 20 minutes will let us know whether or not the Patriots need to join a conference

What a moment.

Amazing halftime performance only thing that was missing was someone throwing a football into a giant Dr Pepper can for a scholarship

call me "woke" or whatever but I think the Superbowl should have less football and more dancing latinas

OK "god bless america" and then naming every country in the americas from south to north is absolute king shit

"hey remember this" isn't inherently funny or entertaining, you still have to put some work in!

So Copilot is just for people who don’t know how to use Excel?

A lot of Notre Dame going on in this game so far (Rylie Mills, Julian Love, Australian punter, 10 guys on the field for a defense).

Rylie Mills making me feel things (like what if he was playing against Ohio State last year)

Rylie Mills let's gooooo

kicking my feet in the air, laughing and clapping, full of whimsy

I have felt that Micah Shrewsberry is going to get a fourth year by default but he's certainly trying to make that belief as precarious as possible.

Soni vs Marina round one ☘️👀

Soni getting past Bueckers for a bucket, name a more iconic duo

Christian Gray going back to 29 is a delight

A treasure trove of good news/vibes with the new Notre Dame football numbers release, starting with Tionne Gray doing what he needed to do

If you need a long listen and/or college football fix this weekend, this was a lot of fun covering a lot of ground.

MOST UNCLAIMED NATIONAL TITLES According to Wiki from NCAA approved selectors.

I was in on The Bend alts from the jump but they've only grown on me. We are so close to seeing God's light*. Sweet warmup shirt. * Notre Dame football wearing black uniforms for the Miami night game in November.

Pulling out a win against a solid Hokies team on a horrible shooting night for Hidalgo + Cowles out is a real nice way to notch two in a row. Bransford being back is so so huge, keep going. ☘️🏀

Blue-Gold Game is April 25th fightingirish.com/blue-gold-ga...

I know Pete Bevacqua has a lot on his plate but one of those things needs to be either getting Carson Towt another year of eligibility or coming up with some random position at ND for him where he is paid to fundraise for NIL/just hang out on campus and be a good vibes guy.

Me, to my bosses at the newspaper: what about my team at our “random college freshman said something annoying” beat? Newspaper owner: *slides check for 10 million dollars* this mission is too important to be compromised, we will spend every last dime if we have to

🏈 new pod 🏈 @jessicasmetana.bsky.social is here for a supersized episode to talk some Notre Dame news (Aaron Henry, Brian Jean-Mary, Jim Phillips) and the CFP schedule. Then for the main event we discuss every single new FBS head coaching hire, Big Ten to UConn. open.spotify.com/episode/3Ff5...

Almost TWO FULL WEEKS between quarterfinals and semifinals, this sport has no idea what it's doing.

who is this diva

Expected new Notre Dame linebacker coach Brian Jean-Mary coached one of my favorite random guys to remember, Georgia Tech's Phillip Wheeler. Wheeler was a third-round pick who put up some silly silly numbers in college:

Hannah Hidalgo is the first player in women's D-I college basketball history to have at least 2,000 points, 400 rebounds, 400 assists, and 400 steals by end of her junior season. 🔥 See her stats here: www.sports-reference.com/cbb/players/...

First Nolecast, now this. Sad.

"Hannah Hidalgo scores 37 to win above the Stanford Hellmouth in a game broadcast on The CW" is something I enjoyed very much.

You don’t want hands free driving, you want trains. You want trains you want trains you want TRAINS

another angle caught what I’m pretty sure is former Alabama Mr Basketball & fellow accomplished Domer Justin Tuck enjoying Marina Mabrey's incredible offensive blitz 🍀🏀 #GoIrish