Jacob and Caleb, sons of Justin Hall, who played football for the Irish from 1988 to ’93, and Jennifer Hall, a 1998 ND graduate.
Photo/Penny Sylvia
Read about Notre Dame football with chapters from recent books.
May I Have Your Attention Please... excerpt
A chapter from the book May I Have Your Attention Please … Wit & Wisdom from the Notre Dame Press Box.
More..Forgotten Four excerpt
A chapter from the book Forgotten Four: Notre Dame’s Greatest Backfield and the 1953 Undefeated Season.
More..The Irish Way of Life excerpt
A chapter from The Irish Way of Life: Stores of Family, Faith and Friendship
More..The stories featured below are just a small sample taken from the complete listing of stories. This website posts feature and news stories found in the print issue, in addition to blogs written by alumni, faculty, and our editors. Explore the articles or find out more about us.
From the Blogs
The tooth of the matter
BYThe total tonnage of my parental incompetence is staggering.
More..Another email: The sign of peace
BYA few years ago I stuck a peace sign on the back of my car. It was uncharacteristic of me. I’m not a bumper-sticker guy.
More..After 9/11 are we any safer?
BYOn September 11, 2001 almost 3,000 people were killed in New York City, Washington, D.C., and Pennsylvania. Are we any safer in 2009?
More..Ted Kennedy and abortion
BYThe day had started early at the Charles River Square townhouse, which was then the Boston home of U.S. Sen. Edward M. Kennedy.
More..I love the smell of barbecue in the morning
BYBarbecue at sunrise seemed to me perfectly appropriate after four years of football Saturdays in South Bend.
More..One shimmering Saturday
BYAnyone with any interest in college football has either watched or heard about some miracle comeback by some Notre Dame football team at one time or another.
More..May I Have Your Attention Please... excerpt
BYA chapter from the book May I Have Your Attention Please … Wit & Wisdom from the Notre Dame Press Box.
More..Forgotten Four excerpt
BYA chapter from the book Forgotten Four: Notre Dame’s Greatest Backfield and the 1953 Undefeated Season.
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Rss FeedAlumni
Reunion, reflection, renewal
BYReunion 2009 offered Ed Stubbing ’64 much more than a chance to see some of his classmates, although he relished the opportunity. “Meeting classmates I hadn’t seen in 45 years was magnificent,” he says.
More..Man in motion
BYMax Siegel ’86, ’92J.D. has yet to slow a pace that began with life literally on the run.
More..Rss FeedCampus & Community
25 things to do on a home football weekend
BYLight a candle and say a prayer at the Grotto, and leave double the suggested offering “just to be sure.”
More..The dust is off a priceless resource
BYThe story goes that Father Sorin obtained Notre Dame’s first natural history museum collection through an exchange with a physician for land Sorin held near Detroit.
More..Rss FeedChurch
The order by which people are admitted to heaven
BYTo be admitted without review by committee: children under the age of 12, sixth-grade teachers, the mothers of triplets, janitors, nuns (all religions), nurses, all other mothers, loggers, policemen with more than 10 years of service, Buddhists (see Appendix A).
More..The Holy Moment
BYThe turning point in my long, bumpy and still-unfinished spiritual journey began on a bright summer day when I exited a busy highway outside Sturgis, South Dakota, and headed north into the seemingly infinite horizon of the Great Plains.
More..Rss FeedCurrent Affairs
Eye of the Needle
BYIn The Divine Comedy, Dante accompanies Virgil through purgatory and hell. Up until about a year ago, one could be forgiven for presuming only a smattering of bankers and financiers would be found in the inferno’s depths, somewhere between the second and fourth circles, where those overcome by lust and obsession with material goods are forever damned. Now it’s apparent some Wall Street professionals deserve to be sentenced to far worse.
More..Having coffee with Ann Tenbrunsel
BYA few weeks ago as I walked across the Notre Dame campus to meet Ann Tenbrunsel for lunch, I kept thinking, “How could things have gone so wrong? What a predicament we’re in.”
More..Rss FeedScience & Technology
Jet lag gene
BYMost people feel exhausted and disoriented after they travel quickly across several time zones. Not a problem for Giles Duffield’s special mice.
More..Curing arthritis with fat
BYNearly one in three American adults suffers from some form of arthritis.
More..Rss FeedSociety & Culture
Setting the stage for success
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It all began with music and admiration. Long before Ryan Cunningham ’02 was writing musicals, he was looking up to his older brothers, Kevin and Thomas, as they played piano and sax at the Saint Joseph Summer Theatre in Needham, Massachusetts. He knew he didn’t quite have their…
Words of Notre Dame
BYOther universities have histories. Notre Dame has legends.
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