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Dr. Phil: Te'o was victim of girlfriend hoax
Dr. Phil McGraw says Ronaiah Tuiasosopo, who masterminded the dead girlfriend hoax involving Manti Te'o, told him the Notre Dame linebacker was not ...
Kelly doesn't know if hoax affected Teo's play
Notre Dame linebacker Manti Te'o didn't show any signs of being affected by the girlfriend hoax leading up to the BCS title game, but his play ...
AP NewsBreak: ND pres defends handling of Te'o
Top administrators at Notre Dame decided within hours of hearing about the Manti Te'o dead girlfriend hoax that it did not involve a crime and within ...
Te'o mentioned 'girlfriend' twice recently
Not once but twice after he supposedly discovered his online girlfriend of three years never even existed, Notre Dame All-American linebacker Manti ...
Story of Te'o girlfriend death apparently a hoax
The wrenching story of Notre Dame football star Manti Te'o's girlfriend dying of leukemia — a loss he said inspired him to play his best all the way ...
No. 2 Notre Dame women defeat Georgetown 79-64
Notre Dame's tough defense and good free-throw shooting were too much for Georgetown. The second-ranked Fighting Irish held the Hoyas' Sugar Rodgers, ...
Indiana father forgives parents, wants to see son
An Indiana man says he forgives his parents for abducting his son nearly 20 years ago and raising the boy themselves, but he doesn't understand why ...
Kelly will return to Notre Dame next season
Notre Dame coach Brian Kelly will be trying for his first BCS championship, instead of a Super Bowl title, next season. The third-year Fighting Irish ...
Alabama AD made a brief stop at Notre Dame
Mal Moore's career was adrift. A quarter century of winning games and titles as an Alabama player and assistant to Bear Bryant had ended, and Moore ...
After a loss, a family learns to widen its embrace
Declan Sullivan would have loved this weekend. For all the doubts his family has confronted in the 27 months since the death of their first-born son, ...
Irish get serious about preparing for Alabama
Top-ranked Notre Dame finally got down to the serious business of getting ready to play defending national champion Alabama in the BCS title game on ...
National titles: Who decides? Mostly, the schools
Quick, name the college football team that has won the most national championships. Alabama? Notre Dame? Princeton? If you gave any of those answers, ...
Notre Dame's Kelly wins AP coach of the year
After two seasons as Notre Dame coach, Brian Kelly decided he wasn't spending enough time doing the best part of his job: coaching players.
No. 1 Notre Dame has underdog in its DNA
The rankings say Notre Dame is No. 1 going into the BCS championship against Alabama. Plenty of folks aren't buying it, starting with the oddsmakers ...
Te'o leads Irish defense, key to perfect season
If Manti Te'o's career at Notre Dame has seemed like something straight out of a Hollywood script, perhaps it's fitting the linebacker is cast as an ...
Griner leads No. 3 Baylor women over No. 5 Irish
Rapper Lil Wayne showed up at Notre Dame to see Skylar Diggins play and watched as Brittney Griner and defending national champion Baylor put on a ...
Notre Dame players focusing on themselves for now
Notre Dame coach Brian Kelly has bigger things to worry about right now than defending national champion Alabama. With the national championship game ...
Notre Dame beats eighth-ranked Kentucky 64-50
Notre Dame's experience and raucous home crowd were too much for eighth-ranked Kentucky and its heralded freshmen. Junior guards Eric Atkins and ...
Freshman QB leads USC against No. 1 Notre Dame
Not many young quarterbacks would even have the audacity to imagine making their first career starts under the circumstances surrounding Max Wittek ...
Powerball jackpot builds to $325M for Saturday
Black Friday shoppers in many cities briefly detoured into lottery retailers, drawn off task by the prospects of winning a $325 million Powerball ...
Kelly follows unusual path to lead Irish to No. 1
Brian Kelly appears to be the coach with all the right answers. Nearly every decision he's made this season has seemed to work out, from picking ...
Little things adding up for Notre Dame's Golson
Notre Dame coach Brian Kelly believes Everett Golson is ready for what awaits him at Southern California. He believes the 6-0, 185-pound sophomore ...
Notre Dame stays unbeaten, then get more good news
No. 3 Notre Dame stayed undefeated with an uncharacteristically easy victory at home and then had the rest of the night to watch as the teams in front ...
No. 3 Notre Dame stays perfect, beats Wake 38-0
Notre Dame got one first-place vote in the coaches' poll last Sunday — head coach Brian Kelly's. He won't be the only one voting the Fighting Irish No