Sports

On Baseball and Critiquing Things You Love

Katherine Walden is an assistant teaching professor of American studies at Notre Dame and an affiliated faculty member of the Notre Dame Technology Ethics Center. Her research...

RED PENGUINS: Virtual Film Screening and Discussion with Gabe Polsky

Thursday, February 18, 4 p.m. ET —- Complete with gangsters, strippers, and live bears serving beer on a hockey rink, RED PENGUINS (2019) tells the wild forgotten true story of...

Pete Bevacqua ’93, Chairman, NBC Sports Group, and Jack Swarbrick

Pete Bevacqua, Chairman, NBC Sports Group, sits down with Jack Swarbrick, to discuss the future of Media and Sports. Indi Jackson will make a special guest appearance during the...

Shared Read – Black Domers

This fall, all alumni, parents, and friends of Notre Dame are invited to join the affinity groups in unpacking Black Domers: African-American Students at Notre Dame in Their Own...

New ThinkND discussion series brings leaders across industries together to share successes, perspectives

The Inspired Leadership Initiative and the Notre Dame Alumni Association have partnered to launch Inspiring Conversations, a new discussion series that will invite leaders from a...

On Reindeer Herders and Powerlifting

Cara Ocobock is an assistant professor of anthropology at Notre Dame. A biological anthropologist, she is the director of the Human Energetics Laboratory and explores the...

On Muhammad Ali and a Knockout Biography

Jonathan Eig is the author of five books, including biographies of Lou Gehrig, Jackie Robinson, and most recently, Muhammad Ali. All three of them were New York Times bestsellers,...

Sports

Fighting to Build on Tradition

On the Navajo Nation, a territory encompassing 27,000 square miles across Arizona, New Mexico and Utah, sits a lone Catholic school — Saint Michael Indian School. There, 400...

Having Coffee with Clark Power

Clark Power will tell you that, when you talk youth sports in America, there are two stories that need to be heard. One has gotten lots of attention lately; the other goes largely...

Playing for Keeps

It was a brutal game, one of those disheartening affairs when one team is clearly outgunned and overmatched. The other team’s pitcher was throwing bullets. Their batters were...

On Football Rankings and Measuring Efficiency

Brian Fremeau is the creator of the eponymously named Fremeau Efficiency Index, or FEI, a college football rating system based on opponent-adjusted possession efficiency. (Don’t...