Category: NCAA
IRISH NEWSLINK: “Irish Win 2nd NCAA Women’s Basketball Title; Ogunbowale last second three lifts Irish to 61-58 win”
“For the second time in program history, the University of Notre Dame women’s basketball team are your NCAA National Champions. The No. 1 seeded Irish (35-3) completed the second largest comeback in Final Four history to defeat the No. 1 seeded Bulldogs (37-2) 61-58. Arike Ogunbowale hit a three with 0.1 remaining to clinch the title for the Irish. It
» Read moreIRISH NEWSLINK: “#NotreDame #FinalFour Run Tainted by #NCAA’s Scheduling on #GoodFriday and #Easter; #Catholic Institution Should Have Abstained From Participating” – SCW
The #NCAA has created an anti-#Catholic and anti-#Christian effect by scheduling a national semifinal (#FinalFour game) on #GoodFriday in women’s #basketball. Doing so violates the solemn nature of the day and subjects Catholics to having to play on a day when they are fasting, and when they are abstaining from meat. At least the game is not at 3 p.m.,
» Read moreIRISH NEWSLINK: “No. 1 Irish Seek Program’s Second National Title this Weekend in Columbus Rivalry renewed in national semifinal vs No. 1 UConn” – UND
“All eyes of the NCAA Division I women’s basketball world are locked upon Columbus, Ohio, this weekend as the 2018 Final Four begins on Friday at Nationwide Arena. The No. 1 Notre Dame Fighting Irish (33-3) will once again renew its rivalry with No. 1 UConn Huskies (36-0) in Friday’s second semifinal game, slated to begin at 9:30 p.m. ET
» Read more[PDF] IRISH NEWSLINK: “UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME PUBLIC INFRACTIONS DECISION, NOVEMBER 22, 2016” – NCAA
“… The agreed-upon violations in this case centered on multiple years of academic violations by a former student athletic trainer and football student-athletes …”
» Read moreIRISH NEWSLINKS: “A Letter from the [University of Notre Dame] President on the NCAA Infractions Case” – NDedu
“We are deeply disappointed by and strongly disagree with the denial of the University’s appeal, announced today by the NCAA, of an earlier decision by the NCAA’s Committee on Infractions to vacate Notre Dame’s 2012 and 2013 football victories due to academic misconduct by several student-athletes. Our concerns go beyond the particulars of our case and the record of two
» Read moreIRISH NEWSLINK: “NCAA appeals committee upholds vacation of Notre Dame wins ” – NCAA
“Notre Dame must vacate all records in which football student-athletes participated while ineligible during the 2012-13 and 2013-14 football seasons, according to a decision issued by the NCAA Division I Infractions Appeals Committee. In the NCAA Division I Committee on Infractions’ decision, the panel found a former Notre Dame athletic training student violated NCAA ethical conduct rules when she committed
» Read moreIRISH NEWSLINK: “Notre Dame’s Alohi Gilman denied immediate eligibility” – NotreDame.247Sports
[from Nov. 22] IRISH NEWSLINK Chicago Sun-Times: “NCAA penalties merely latest of Notre Dame football’s problems”
“… This will be the fourth of Kelly’s seven seasons that the Irish finish outside of the AP Top 25. The negative energy burdening some of those teams has been palpable, and an obvious problem. …”
» Read moreIRISH VIDEO: Brian Kelly Tuesday Press Conference; Southern Cal Preview and Reaction to NCAA Sanctions Against Notre Dame
BrianKelly meets with reporters on Tuesday, Nov. 22, 2016, as Notre Dame prepares for their road game at Southern Cal. Notre Dame also is reacting to the NCAA’s announcement of wide-ranging sanctions against Notre Dame in connection with an academic cheating scandal. If the sanctions hold, Notre Dame will vacate their wins from their 2012 run to the BCS title
» Read moreIRISH NEWSWATCH: “NCAA: Notre Dame Must Vacate Wins After Academic Misconduct” – AP
“Brian Kelly’s worst season at Notre Dame took an embarrassing turn … the NCAA announced that academic misconduct orchestrated by a student athletic trainer will cost the storied program all 21 victories from the 2012-13 seasons, including the 12-0 run that vaulted the Fighting Irish into the national championship game against Alabama. … just the fourth time the NCAA has
» Read moreIRISH NEWSLINK USA Today: “Notre Dame must vacate football wins after academic violations by trainer”
“Notre Dame will be forced to vacate victories in the 2012 and 2013 football season due to NCAA violations by a student-trainer. The NCAA Division I Committee on Infractions panel ruled the trainer violated ethical conduct rules when she committed academic misconduct for two football players by completing their coursework. The two players and another also committed individual academic misconduct,
» Read moreIRISH NEWSLINK: NCAA News Release: “Former Notre Dame student trainer acted unethically, committed academic misconduct”
“A former University of #NotreDame student athletic trainer violated #NCAA ethical conduct rules when she committed academic misconduct for two football student-athletes and provided six other #football student-athletes with impermissible academic extra benefits, according to a Division I Committee on Infractions panel. One additional football student-athlete committed academic misconduct on his own. The panel prescribed one year of probation, a
» Read more[PDF] IRISH NEWSLINK: NCAA DOCUMENT: “UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME PUBLIC INFRACTIONS DECISION NOVEMBER 22, 2016”
“The NCAA Division I Committee on Infractions (COI) is an independent administrative body of the NCAA comprised of individuals from the Division I membership and the public. The committee decides infractions cases involving member institutions and their staffs.1 This case involved academic violations in the football program at the University of Notre Dame. A panel of the committee considered this
» Read moreIRISH NEWSWATCH: “Former Notre Dame player sues university, NCAA over concussions” – South Bend Tribune/AP
Former … Notre Dame football player Gary Gray is suing Notre Dame and the NCAA, claiming he suffered repetitive head injuries while playing football and didn’t receive proper medical care. … the latest in a wave of federal lawsuits filed … on behalf of former football players related to concussions .. Gray … was a cornerback on the Fighting Irish
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