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People love to hate bloggers. They read our posts, then write comments saying that "nobody cares what you guys think anyway." Huh? What the haters don't get is that blogging is a labor of love (or passion, if you will), not just something we do for a paycheck. Thus, it's more real, more genuine, and more noble than most of what you read in the newspaper (does ANYONE read a newspaper anymore?)

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Happy Blue-Gold Day! Just a couple of quick hits before we here at OC Domer get going on a day full of lacrosse and Angels Baseball. The BIG NEWS is that Cierre Wood, listed by many as the nation's top running back prospect for next year's recruiting class, verbally committed to Coach Weis and Notre Dame during his unofficial visit to campus this morning. If this is true, it would be a HUGE

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The 79th Annual Blue-Gold Game will be played this Saturday afternoon in Notre Dame Stadium. Of course, the scrimmage is now part of the "2008 Blue-Gold Spring Football Festival, presented by Home Run Inn Pizza." Coach Weis has named six big-time heroes from Notre Dame's storied past to be the Honorary Coaches for this year's contest. He has also modified the format of the game a bit (

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The Notre Dame Men's Hockey Team saw their amazing season come to a disappointing close last night in Denver as they suffered a 4-1 defeat at the hands of the Boston College Eagles in the NCAA Championship Game. Congratulations to the Eagles. Dang it. I was worried going into the game that, however the Irish might match up with B.C. on paper, they were going to have a little trouble getting

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For some strange reason, I actually had a few minutes available this morning to spend on the blog - so I thought I'd do a little Spring cleaning. Specifically, I like to check on the sites listed on my blog rolls to make sure that they are current (i.e., worth keeping on my personal list of best Irish blogs and worthy of promoting to my tens of readers). The first change I had to make was to

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Hail to the Victors! Congratulations to the Notre Dame Mens Hockey team for their momentous semi-final win over the #1 seeded University of Michigan wolverines last night. The 5-4 overtime win sends the Skating Irish to their first NCAA Championship game ever, against Boston College on Saturday night. Not to beat a dead horse, but does anyone else remember when the talk was all about how "

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It's Spring here in the OC, if not quite so in South Bend, and Spring football is underway. Blogging Spring football is a difficult and dangerous task. Difficult because a blogger living in Orange County who can't go to the practices and who can only watch short, grainy video clips of players running through bag drills, has a hard time producing thoughtful content that is actually relevant to

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I'm doing pretty well so far in the tourney. Through 20 games I'm 18-2 (Drake lost in OT, BYU fell to Texas A&M). No serious damage to my brackets yet. I only entered one on-line bracket challenge this year, at ESPN.com. I enjoy listening to Colin Cowherd in the mornings on ESPN radio, and he started up a group for himself, some of his ESPN buddies, and his listeners, so I joined the group

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Yes, I have blogger guilt over the low productivity lately. But surveying the blogging landscape it is clear that I'm not the only blogger out there with a case of the Spring doldrums. For several weeks now I've been on the verge of writing my "Ding, Dong the Witch is Dead" article devoted to Hillary Clinton's spectacular defeat, but the bit*% won't die! And I just have a hard time getting

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Via Matt Drudge we learn that an appeals court in California has ruled that parents can only homeschool their children if they hold a valid teaching credential. Forget, for now, about the incredible infringement upon individual liberty this is. Or the hubris of those who assert that only WE know, and only WE have the right to dictate, what your child should be taught. Forget the objective

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The father of modern American conservatism died in his home today at the age of 82. I am a Ronald Reagan Republican. When I first started taking an interest in politics and political thought, Reagan dominated the field. But as I began to read more about Reagan and the source of the ideology he personified for my generation, I became aware of the profound role that William F. Buckley Jr.

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EA Sports is holding an on-line vote to decide which college mascot will grace the cover of EA Sports' NCAA Football 2009, which will be available for the Wii gaming console for the first time this year. I am urging everyone to go to the site and cast a vote for Purdue Pete! Several reasons: Irony. Nothing says "college football" quite like the Purdue Boilermakers. Pete is the scariest,

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Is Mike Rothstein of the Fort Wayne Journal Gazette a total moron? Or is he just an anti-Notre Dame buffoon? Until recently I generally dismissed Mike as a harmless lightweight who could occasionally turn up a useful nugget of information since he is able to attend portions of Notre Dame football practices as well as press conferences. Even a blind squirrel will sometimes find a nut. But I'm

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Okay, I admit it. I have been known, on rare occasion, to watch American Idol. Last night (and the night before, and a couple of times last week) was one such instance. The American Idol contestants were in "Hollywood" (actually Pasadena) vying for the chance to be one of the Top 24 performers who would get a chance to compete for viewers' votes in the coming weeks. And there he was! Serious

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Just a few very quick thoughts on the recently concluded recruiting cycle. Let's have a big OC Domer welcome to all the members of the Notre Dame graduating class of 2012. Yes, that's right, graduating class of 2012, because unlike many "premiere" football "schools" we at ND actually provide our kids with a world-class education and a meaningful college degree - in four years. There will no

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"Inside Lacrosse" has posted a great season preview of the Notre Dame lacrosse team. Included is this excerpt on Will Yeatman and the high expectations for this season: 1. Will Yeatman is back for more.The sophomore attackman became a sensation in his freshman season - as much for his dual-sport status as a tight end with the football squad as his play on the lacrosse field. With the Irish

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I voted on the way to work this morning, "yes" on Mitt Romney and "no" on everything else (Indian gaming, term limits funny business, transportation and community college funding tweaks). I had hoped to glean from my visit to the polls some insight as to how the day might go. I was very surprised that at 8:00 a.m. I was almost the only person casting a ballot. Poll workers easily outnumbered

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We're primarily a football operation here, but it's worth noting that the Notre Dame men's basketball team is quietly having a very nice season. They haven't gotten much national media attention so far, but that may change now that the Irish are a Top 25 team. Wins over Villanova, Providence and DePaul in the past nine days, have vaulted the Irish to #21 in the USA Today coaches poll and #22

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It's definitely good news / bad news at OC Domer headquarters heading into California's primary election on Tuesday. The good news is that for the first time in a while Californians will actually have a chance to influence the Presidential nomination process in each of the major political parties. For too many years California's primaries were held far too late in the process to make a

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Todd Marinovich, of the USC Trojans and the Oakland Raiders, was known to many as the "Robo-QB" because of how his father molded and programmed him to play the quarterback position from a very early age. But it seems that Notre Dame football coach Charlie Weis is in the process of manufacturing a new generation of Robo-QBs, and the latest model comes off the production line with a

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Brendan Loy has written a very nice analysis of the Presidential election, and his views are quite similar to my own (his views on the race, not on policy issues). His key point: Edwards supporters (and, for that matter, those currently backing Hillary Clinton) ought to seriously consider jumping on the Barack Obama bandwagon, because as best as I can tell, Hillary Clinton is quite possibly the

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Congratulations to the four Notre Dame Lacrosse players who were just named to the Inside Lacrosse top-50 players list for the 2008 season. They are senior goaltender Joey Kemp (#13), Sophomore attackman Will Yeatman (#15), senior defenseman Sean Dougherty (#35), and Senior midfielder Michael Podgajny (#37). Yeatman, of course, is also a tight end for the Fighting Irish football team.

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Old news, I suppose. I've been depressed by the fallout from the GOP primary in South Carolina, and I've been on the road. But it's official: "Today I have withdrawn my candidacy for President of the United States. I hope that my country and my party have benefited from our having made this effort. Jeri and I will always be grateful for the encouragement and friendship of so many wonderful

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I think everyone is anxious to put the 2007 season behind us. The latest batch of recruits is getting ready to sign on the dotted line, and Spring football feels like it is just around the corner. But I don’t want to just forget that the 2007 season ever happened. I don’t want to just block it out of my memory, as if the experience didn’t have a lot to teach us. I think there are some

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Most voters know that we will be electing a new President in November. What many don't realize is that the primary election season which began in Iowa on January 3rd will be over for all practical purposes when the polls close in 22 states (including California) on February 5th. By then, if not well before, the two major political parties will have chosen their nominees and a ridiculously long

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