The FanHouse - Wisconsin Basketball (Free subscription) | yesterday
by John Walters Filed under: Notre Dame , Daily Domer PALO ALTO, Calif. -- How does Charlie Weis sell this evening's contest with Stanford to his players? My guess is that he tells them to treat it as their bowl game. Think about it. Even if the Irish do head to a bowl (only possible if they beat the Cardinal), they would likely not head to a destination with better weather than they...
NCAA Football FanHouse (Free subscription) | yesterday
by John Walters Filed under: Notre Dame , Daily Domer PALO ALTO, Calif. -- How does Charlie Weis sell this evening's contest with Stanford to his players? My guess is that he tells them to treat it as their bowl game. Think about it. Even if the Irish do head to a bowl (only possible if they beat the Cardinal), they would likely not head to a destination with better weather than they...
NCAA Football FanHouse (Free subscription) | yesterday
by John Walters Filed under: Notre Dame STANFORD, Calif. -- Let it be said that the final handoff that Jimmy Clausen made in his college career was not to Robert Hughes , but to his older brother Rick. And that it was not a football, but Clausen's golden helmet. Although, "to be honest," as Clausen has said many a time the past two months, he has yet to sit down with his family...
NCAA Football FanHouse (Free subscription) | yesterday
by John Walters Filed under: Daily Domer He is college football's consummate team player. At least two nights each week ESPN's Rece Davis anchors my favorite studio show and keeps the banter between Dr. Lou and Mark May both amicable and lively. Davis, 43, is a study in substance over style. He has been encamped in Bristol for 14 years now and grasps the concept that the host is a pulling...
NCAA Football FanHouse (Free subscription) | yesterday
by John Walters Filed under: Notre Dame , Stanford , Daily Domer STANFORD, Calif -- Sunny and perfect here in the Bay Area this morning. Never before in Notre Dame history have the Fighting Irish enjoyed better weather and worse fortune for their November slate of contests. The Irish will have faced Navy and Connecticut in South Bend and Pittsburgh and Stanford on the road with each...
NCAA Football FanHouse (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009
by John Walters Filed under: Notre Dame , Daily Domer SOUTH BEND, Ind. -- School's out. In so many ways. It is a wet and raw and gray Thanksgiving eve day. Classes ended Tuesday for the holiday weekend. The Notre Dame campus is quiet except for the shuffling back and forth by various football players between the Gug and the athletic trainers' offices inside the Joyce Athletic and Convocation...
NCAA Football FanHouse (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009
by John Walters Filed under: Daily Domer SOUTH BEND, Ind -- Let's be clear: C.J.'s Pub, the bar outside which Jimmy Clausen was allegedly sucker punched by a fan in the early hours Sunday morning, is not a "restaurant" or "establishment." It's hardly the place you dine out with your family. It's a great dive pub with Bud Light on tap and deliciously greasy burgers....
SPORTSbyBROOKS (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
Eric Hansen, Notre Dame football beat writer for the SOUTH BEND TRIBUNE, Tweets from ND practice today: Hansen also noted that, “ND players are off limits to the media this week. The next time we’ll hear from them or Weis is late Saturday night.” Then there’s this from AOL FANHOUSE reporter John Walters, who was also at [...]
NCAA Football FanHouse (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009
by John Walters In 1991 Guns 'n Roses introduced the song "Civil War", which included the lyric, "I don't need your civil war." That line was sung by a man named Rose. Eighteen years later, a bowl named Rose most definitely needs your Civil War, Oregon and Oregon State . For the first time in the 113 years in which the game has been played, the winner will head directly...
The FanHouse - Nebraska Football (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
by John Walters Filed under: Notre Dame SOUTH BEND, Ind. -- One day after a report surfaced that Jimmy Clausen was punched by an irate fan , the Irish quarterback is on the field practicing in a tinted visor. Notre Dame is practicing in an indoor facility. According to a report by a Chicago radio station and later ESPN, Clausen was sucker punched in the early hours of Sunday morning...
The FanHouse - Syracuse Football (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
by John Walters Filed under: Notre Dame , Coaching , FanHouse Exclusive Hours after losing to Connecticut on Notre Dame's Senior Day, Fighting Irish coach Charlie Weis sat down at length with John Walters and talked to the FanHouse writer one-on-one about his experience coaching at his alma mater. The following is what transpired between coach and reporter very early Sunday...
The FanHouse - Florida Football (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
by John Walters Filed under: Notre Dame SOUTH BEND, Ind -- Notre Dame quarterback Jimmy Clausen emerged from a fight outside a restaurant/bar with two black eyes in the early hours of Sunday morning, according to a report from a Chicago radio station. A bartender confirmed to FanHouse that the Clausen family was in the restaurant but said that no altercation took place on the premises....
The Blue-Gray Sky (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
There's a must-read by our old friend John Walters on the fanhouse today. Walters caught up with Charlie at the crack of dawn Sunday after the Connecticut loss, and it seems as if our beleaguered coach was ready to unload some pent-up frustrations. SOUTH BEND, Ind. -- The November darkness is unseasonably warm. Charlie Weis steps out of his black Yukon SUV toting two bagels and...
Deadspin (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
AOL Fanhouse writer John Walters has a pretty incredible, candid glimpse of Charlie Weis, in the early morning hours after the Fighting Irish lost to UCONN, where the embattled head coach basically...
Deadspin (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
AOL Fanhouse writer John Walters has a pretty incredible, candid glimpse of Charlie Weis, in the early morning hours after the Fighting Irish lost to UCONN, where the embattled head coach basically...
