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New dining options open on ND campus Cafe J, student dorm businesses offer new, late night dining options to community By CLAIRE REID Associate News Editor
As the weather warms up and the days get longer, now is a great time to venture across campus to try a new on-campus restaurant or dorm food sale business.
Cafe J opens in the Morris Inn Cafe J is a new coffee shop that opened last month in the Morris Inn. The cafe offers Peet’s Coffee, lattes, cappuccinos, mochas and hot teas as
well as a variety of alcoholic and non-alcoholic cool beverages including Notre Dame Family Wines. Pastries from the University’s executive pastry chef Sinai Vespie are also available for purchase, and the cafe plans to add charcuterie boards, fruit, sandwiches and salads to the menu in two weeks. Micki Kidder, vice president of University enterprises and events, helps oversee the Morris Inn and led the efforts see DINING PAGE 3
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Cafe J employees pose with the pastries they sell at the new, living room-inspired Cafe J in the Morris Inn located at ND. The new cafe opened in February of this year. It accepts flex points and Domer Dollars.
French students translate Fr. Sorin’s original letters By ALYSA GUFFEY Editor-in-Chief
A box of letters w ritten in t he 19t h centur y by Fr. Edwa rd Sorin rema ined in t he possession of t he Cong regation of Holy Cross until 2019 when t hey were ha nded over to Universit y A rchives. During t he relocation, it was discovered t hat ma ny of Sorin’s letters were w ritten in French a nd had not been tra nslated. As a Holy Cross priest, assista nt professor of French a nd self-procla imed Fra ncophile, Fr. Greg Haa ke f inds Sorin to be a fascinating f ig ure. Sorin, a Frenchma n, was a fellow Holy Cross priest a nd founded t he Universit y in 1842. “I’m ver y interested in [Fr. Sorin] a nd his life a nd what he did to found a nd build Notre Da me,” Haa ke sa id. Haa ke sa id he was initia lly shocked by t he number of untra nslated letters in t he a rchives. “W hen I went to t he a rchives for t he f irst time to look at t he letters at t he collection, it was boxes of letters, a nd I cou ldn’t believe it,” he sa id. To tra nslate a good chunk
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of t he letters, t he fa mily of Vernon H. Brinck donated f unds, a nd t hen Haa ke bega n teaching a one-credit workshop course in t he spring 2020 semester. He has taught t he class in t he spring ever since. Senior Ela ine Ca rter, a n accounting a nd French double major, decided to ta ke t he class a f ter being ex posed to t he letters in a prev ious class her sophomore yea r. “W hen t his project was becoming somet hing t he French depa rtment was interested in hav ing students work on … in t he last mont h of my French tra nslation class, t hat’s what we did,” she sa id. “It didn’t work in my schedule until senior yea r, but t hen t he timing worked well, a nd it was rea lly interesting.” This semester, t here a re ten students in t he workshop, a nd students pa ir up to work on a letter toget her. Haa ke sa id he does not require students to work on t he letters outside of class. Sophomore Jack Konrad, a pre-med biolog y major w it h a French supplementa r y major, sa id he enjoys t he unique experience of t he course
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— vast ly dif ferent f rom his ot her classes. “It’s k ind of g reat to ta ke a litt le brea k on Wednesday a f ternoons a nd get toget her a nd just tr y to solve t his litt le pu zzle so to spea k,” Konrad sa id. “But I t hink it actua lly w ill help me in my long-term studies in French because it has done a rea lly good job of show ing me how t he t wo la ng uages relate.” First, t he orig ina l ha ndw ritten letters a re tra nscribed direct ly f rom t he papers a nd t y ped up, Haa ke sa id. At t his point, t hey a re still in French. Then, t he text is tra nslated into English, resu lting in t hree documents: t he orig ina l letter, t he French tra nscription a nd t he English tra nslation. Konrad expla ined how t he goa l of tra nslating is to ensure t he letters a re “tr ue to t he French tra nslation, but at t he sa me time, coherent ly convey t he message in English,” which ca n be a diff icu lt task. “A lot of t he time, just by t he nature of how French is, sentences ca n be a lot more draw n out, a nd t here ca n be a lot of dependent clauses a nd verb ag reements t hat see LETTERS PAGE 5
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In an email to the Saint Mary’s community, COVID Response Team chair Mona Bowe announced changes to the College’s masking and guest policies. Effectively immediately, students are no longer required to mask on campus, including in classrooms. Bowe noted how this new measure would impact students, especially sophomores and first-years. “We are thrilled to be able to
announce this, and celebrate this return to a more normal college experience,” she said. “We are especially happy for our sophomores and first-year students, who can, for the first time, enter a college classroom unmasked.” Bowe explained there are two notable exceptions to the new masking protocol, in addition to prior masking guidelines. “Faculty have the option of requiring the use of masks in see MASKING PAGE 3
Camacho-Haas wins election The 2022-23 Saint Mary’s Student Government Association (SGA) election results were announced Friday morning via email by the Office of Student Involvement and Advocacy (OSIA). The student body president will be Angela Camacho and the student body vice president will be Josie Haas. The Camacho-Haas ticket focused on uplifting the Saint
Mary’s community and listening to student feedback in order to better the community. Camacho, originally from Fort Worth, Texas, is a junior double majoring in sociology and psychology with minors in Spanish and film studies. Haas, also a junior, is majoring in Spanish and secondary education with a minor in English as a second language. Both Camacho and Haas previously held roles in the Residence Hall Association and SGA.
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to design the cafe and curate its food and beverage offerings. “For about the past year we had been contemplating building out a new ... offering in that space,” Kidder said. “The space used to be the hotel’s gift store, which was extremely underutilized and not very visible to hotel guests, and we felt the hotel was missing a coffee shop-type offering.” Students can order from the cafe in-store or using the Grubhub app. Flex Points and Domer Dollars are accepted, an option which Kidder said has attracted a surprising but welcome number of students. “It’s been one of the things I’ve loved to see — more and more students are visiting the cafe,” she said. “What’s been fun is students are enjoying, relaxing and studying in the lobby of the hotel which has brought it to life.” Cafe J is currently open to the public every day from 6 a.m. to 3 p.m., though Kidder said she hopes to eventually lengthen the hours to further accommodate students and hotel guests. As for the cafe’s name, she said the “J” stands for three things. The first is java, and the second is Jerry Hammes, a donor who helped fund the space. “And the third is joy,” Kidder said. “We hope that every guest leaves with a lot of joy from the physical experience, the people who are working and the products they’re enjoying.”
Griffin Kitchen offers latenight quesadillas Located in the basement of Stanford Hall and named for the dorm’s mascot, Griffin Kitchen offers made-to-order shredded chicken and three-cheese quesadillas — known as “Griffidias” — for $3 and $2 respectively. Sophomore Joe Hunt describes himself as the founder,
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manager, supervisor and a cook at Griffin Kitchen. He started the business in January after beginning the planning process last semester. A finance and Spanish major, he said running Griffin Kitchen allows him to combine his finance skills with his passion for food. “I love cooking. I like … cooking fancy things like Beef Wellington and chicken cordon bleu,” he said. “And, I’ve always been kind of envious of Keenan for having Keenan Pizza. I was like, ‘Why doesn’t Stanford have something like that in our basement?’” Originally, Hunt said he wanted to open a Stanford steakhouse but realized he should probably go with something more convenient after considering costs and time commitment. He decided on quesadillas after taking input from fellow Stanford residents. Griffin Kitchen’s current hours are 10 p.m. to 12:30 a.m. Monday through Thursday and 11 p.m. to 1:30 a.m. Friday and Saturday. “The dining halls close at 9 [p.m.] on weekdays and 7 [p.m.] on weekends, so throughout campus, I’ve heard a lot of people struggle to [find things] to eat later in the day,” Hunt said. “Having the opportunity to eat good food rather than going to the Huddle and getting Skittles or something … affects studying and affects health.” He said both Stanford residents and non-residents are enjoying Griffin Kitchen’s convenience, cheap prices and latenight hours. “People have been saying it’s really good food … so I couldn’t be happier with the feedback I’ve been getting,” he said. “It’s been pretty fun.”
Siggy Pizza revives an old favorite
Saturday, Siegfried Hall’s Siggy Pizza offers another late-night option. Students can order pizzas for pickup on the Siggy Pizza website, and their purchases support the South Bend Center for the Homeless. First-year Jakub Drwal said he is the CEO and executive chef at Siggy Pizza. He is responsible for sourcing ingredients and managing fellow Siegfried residents who work at the pizzeria. “We offer four different sauces which can be paired with … pepperoni, sausage or both,” Drwal said. “Our sauces include original — traditional red sauce, garlic, lava — fiery, very hot sauce and monster sauce — a mixture of our garlic and lava sauce.” He said lava sauce with pepperoni is the pizzeria’s topselling combination. Siggy Pizza opened at the beginning of the semester Jan. 15 in the space where the Siegfried Pizzeria operated prior to the pandemic. The original pizzeria was shut down in March 2020 when students were sent home due to the pandemic, and the space remained vacant for over a year. “In the fall of 2021, I approached Fr. Joe Pedersen, Siegfried Hall’s rector, in hopes of receiving permission to restart Siegfried Pizzeria since I saw the need for food options on campus when the dining hall is closed,” Drwal said. “Once permission was granted, I renamed Siegfried Pizzeria to Siggy Pizza.” Since opening, he said he has really enjoyed making pizzas and plans to add “Siggy Shakes” to the menu soon. He hopes the pizzeria and the new shakes attract students to Siegfried from across campus.
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Senior fellow gives lecture By JACK VISCUSO News Writer
On Friday, March 18, undergraduate and graduate students gathered in Jordan Auditorium at the Mendoza College of Business to hear a lecture from Benjamin Bahney titled “Inter-Governmental Competition in Space.” Bahney serves as a senior fellow at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory’s (LLNL) Center for Global Security Research. A federally-funded research program, the LLNL’s efforts encompass a broad range of scientific, political and technological research pertaining to the nation’s nuclear weapons and weapons of mass destruction. Bahney’s research centers on the effects of space, cyber and emerging technologies on strategic stability, deterrence and escalation control. “[The LNNL] was founded as part of the U.S. weapons complex to help sustain these capabilities,” Bahney said. “The institution contains some of the nation’s most exquisite high-performance computing capabilities and laboratories.” Bahney’s lecture discussed how civilian and military interests in space might look by 2032. He opened with a quote from Edward Teller, one of the LLNL’s co-founders who is widely regarded as the father of the hydrogen bomb. “‘You can’t lie about the future.’” Bahney said Teller emphasized that “you can’t intentionally be wrong about how the future might look because the future is ours to create.” Nation-states’ space
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ventures fundamentally boil down to the decisions made by the political, military and intelligence community. “The international environment between the major space players — namely China, Russia and the U.S. — is only growing and becoming more acute,” Bahney said. Bahney pointed to several developments to support this point: Japan has begun debating the possibility of hosting U.S. nuclear weapons on its own soil, Sweden and Finland are seriously considering joining NATO and China has demonstrated that they seek to wield inf luence in their geographic sphere and the entire world. These developments have been closely monitored by nations’ militaries, prompting a fierce global battle to establish hegemony. Bahney first pointed to the Russians, who have begun to display weakening prowess and might in space. Most of Russia’s space energies have been devoted toward falling back on core space capabilities, such as counter-space defense systems and intelligence surveillance, rather than pioneering new technologies. “All the trends we have observed point towards a dark, gloomy future for Russian space cooperation,” Bahney said. “Russia’s growth is hindered by its resource limitations, and their ongoing invasion of Ukraine has prompted severe backlash from the international community.” Bahney said Moscow’s perceived might has actually been revealed to be relatively see LECTURE PAGE 5
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FTT class explores alcohol’s role in media By REYNA LIM News Writer
Spring 2020 marked the introduction of a new Film, Telev ision and Theatre (FTT) course “Drunk on Film: The Psycholog y of Stor y telling w ith A lcohol and its Effects on A lcohol Consumption.” Currently in its fifth semester, the course has become increasingly popular among students of all majors for its uniquely intriguing content and takeaways. The course is co-taught by FTT professor Ted Mandell and psycholog y professor Anré Venter. Combining the studies of film and psycholog y, it is an integration course many students seek to add to their curriculum. The course encourages students to question the culture of alcohol consumption, specifically the ways it is cultivated through media such as film. Venter said the goal of the course is not to tell students not to drink but rather to encourage them to question how they are drinking and why. “So the big question is, ‘W hy do students drink the way that they do? ’” Mandell said. “The stor y we’ve been sold since we were kids in Disney films or Budweiser ads is that drinking is all about communit y and that it brings you friends, romance,
sex, status.” Venter said students are asked to think about the effects of media and discuss how alcohol is present even in the mov ies we watch earliest in life. “Take ‘Beaut y and the Beast,’ when Gaston gets turned dow n by Belle, he gets drunk. Many people don’t remember this scene,” Venter said. “We make the mistake that if we don’t remember such media from our childhood, it won’t shape our attitude when, in realit y, it all does.” Students in the course watch around 20 mov ies and read “Quit Like a Woman” by Holly W hitaker, a book that looks at today’s drinking culture and the road to quitting addiction. W hen Mandell and Venter reached out to W hitaker regarding their course and her book, she gave full support. Venter pointed out the psychological perspective on the matter, highlighting how stor y telling is a ver y important social phenomenon. “The moment you share a stor y w ith other people, it makes it much more real in many ways,” he said. “It’s like the idea of a therapy session where people are articulating their emotions, and when you discuss it w ith them and think about it, you gain emotional and intellectual insight.”
Comparable to opening up in therapy, students are encouraged to share personal insights and stories during class discussions. The course takes place on Zoom, an adjustment made by Venter and Mandell upon seeing an increase in participation when the course took place online in spring 2020. “It was interesting because the course started out in person, and half way through the semester, we went online,” Mandell said. “W hat we found was that when students are online and in Zoom, we feel that they are more w illing to open up and talk about issues like this than when we are together in the classroom. Fortuitously, that worked out for us, and that’s how the class blossomed.” Senior Kiki Carney, who took the course last year, agreed that online learning works well for this particular course. “I think Zoom cultivates a more informal env ironment, and students feel more comfortable as they are in their ow n dorm room or apartment,” she said. Mandell discussed the spectrum of different experience levels w ith alcohol among students in the course. “We have students that are non-drinkers. That’s another aspect of college
culture. W hy is it that the non-drinkers are the outsiders? Is it possible to be the non-drinker and be socially accepted? ” he said. “Think about all the wellness initiatives taken up on campus w ith exercises and diets. We promote all these things wellness-w ise, but at the same time, binge drinking seems to be promoted on tailgate weekends.” Venter described the dangers of binge drinking’s normalization among college students. “If during the four years at college you become a habitual binge drinker on Thursday, Friday, Saturday nights, you’re making a mistake if you’re thinking that when you graduate you’ll stop this behav ior,” he said. “There is this belief among students that you can’t be an alcoholic in college. We’ve normalized this drinking.” At the end of the course, many students feel they have gained the insight to take a step back and reevaluate their approach to drinking culture. Students often also look at media and analyze films from a new perspective. “Students are allowed to think, say and share anything they want regarding their v iews on the specific topic, and no one is judged or ridiculed for holding certain beliefs,” Carney
said. “This course transformed and changed how I perceive the college drinking culture.” Students taking the course can expect week ly assigned films and readings along w ith five ref lections and a final paper. In comparison to its class of 20 students during its first semester, there are around 200 enrolled in the course this semester. However, Venter and Mandell expect to begin limiting the class size. The course is taught during both spring and fall semesters as well as during the summer. Libby O’Brien, who is currently a teaching assistant for the course, described Mandell and Venter’s coteaching as a “power duo.” “It is one of the best classes taught at Notre Dame, and I believe ever ybody takes on a ver y different perspective after taking the class,” she said. “A lthough I know most people won’t necessarily stop drinking because of the things they learn in the class, I do believe that they benefit from the ref lections because they become selfaware of why they drink, how much they drink and what could happen to them as a result.” Contact Reyna Lim at slim6@nd.edu
Professors detail tenets of critical race theory By LIAM PRICE Associate News Editor
The Saint Mary’s Division for Inclusion and Equity hosted a panel via Zoom on Monday to discuss some of the main tenets of the controversial critical race theory. The panelists were Saint Mary’s professors Stacy Davis, Dan Horan and Kelly Faust. The professors set out to clearly define critical race theory and cut through the disagreement surrounding the topic. Each panelist detailed a tenet of critical race theory and argued that the ideas are important in understanding race relations in the United States. Davis, an associate professor of religious studies and gender and women’s studies, spoke first about the idea of racism as a permanent reality in America. “To argue for the permanence of racism is to argue the opposite of a phrase that we hear constantly whenever something bad happens, and it’s, ‘this is not who we are,’” Davis said.
Davis pointed to historical treatments of nonwhites in America. She said stealing land from and excluding Native Americans, Asian Americans and Latin Americans reinforces that racism “is exactly who we are.” Though the Fourteenth Amendment granted citizenship to Black Americans, “we’re still kind of waiting on that amendment,” she said. Police brutality, educational inequalities and many of the other difficulties faced by Black Americans are examples of how they are not treated as full citizens, she explained. Critical race theory plays an important role in acknowledging the realities of American history, Davis said. “It means we can stop feeling like we’re being gaslighted because every time someone says, ‘this is not who we are.’ Folks who are Black and brown can give a laundry list of reasons that this is exactly who we are,” she said.
religious studies, theology and philosophy, described critical race theory’s tenet that the social construction of “whiteness” as property in America with heavy legal and social consequences. Horan explored historical examples of whiteness being used as a means of obtaining rights and privileges in the U.S. He concluded by comparing his experiences as a white man to the case of Ahmaud Arbery, who in 2020 was shot and killed while running along a road in Brunswick, Georgia. “This notion of whiteness as a property that is inalienable and non-transferable is something that’s identified with me,” Horan said. “I carry with me everywhere, that I am not exposed to the same threat danger or discrimination, violence or subjugation as others by virtue of this property that is whiteness.”
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racial inequality in the U.S. exclusively occurs when white Americans also see an advantage in reforms. “Interest convergence is essentially where the interests of Blacks with regards to racial equality will only be accommodated when they converge with the interest of whites,” Faust said. Using the progress made on desegregation as an example, Faust said desegregation aligned with the interest of whites through its advantages to its international standing. “Desegregation allowed the United States to increase our prestige and credibility amid the struggle against communism,” she said. Increases in support of the Black Lives Matter movement by white people following the death of George Floyd in 2020 could also be viewed as an example of interest convergence, Faust said. “This was a point where it finally became popular or at least socially acceptable to embrace Black Lives Matter,” she said.
Critical race theory under fire Discussing the concept’s ongoing controversial status, including a speech Saturday in which former president Donald Trump called on supporters to “lay down their very lives” in fighting critical race theory, the professors expressed frustration with common misunderstandings of the concept. “I was teaching critical race theory for a long time before this happened,” Faust said. “And now all of a sudden, I’ve got students that are more resistant to it than in the past. It’s really unfortunate.” Davis said the uneasiness which critical race theory may cause by exposing the realities of racism in the U.S. — despite occasional progress on racial issues — is important. “The reason I don’t like using that type of ‘less’ language is because it suggests that you don’t have to keep hustling, and you always have to keep hustling,” Davis said, referring to the idea that the U.S. has become “less racist.” Contact Liam Price at lprice3@nd.edu
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could get ver y conf using, ver y fast,” Konrad sa id. The resu lt, he sa id, is t hat one French sentence is of ten tra nslated into t hree to four English sentences. Since t he project bega n, roughly 30 letters have been tra nscribed a nd tra nslated, Haa ke sa id. The nex t step is to hire a historia n, he sa id, to contex tua lize t he letters w it hin a la rger histor y of bot h Sorin’s life a nd Notre Da me’s histor y. “The t wo people who were communicating w it h one a not her understa nd what’s going on. They understa nd t he contex t. It doesn’t have to be stated,” Haa ke. “But someone who’s reading t he letter cold, who doesn’t k now a ny t hing about it, needs some contex t to f ig ure out exact ly what t hey’re ta lk ing about.” Konrad added t hat it ca n be a task in itself to tr y to hypot hesize what was going on outside of t he letters. “It’s k ind of f un to be able to k ind of look at t he letters as a whole a nd t hink about t he situations t hat may have been going on,” he sa id. “You see t hings like inside jokes t hat you’re unawa re of. You see nick na mes t hat give you trouble tra nslating.” Haa ke reca lled one specif ic letter where Sorin was in correspondence w it h a diocesa n priest f rom India na a nd was apologizing for a w rongdoing. The contex t was unclea r, Haa ke sa id, but Sorin’s huma nit y shined t hrough. “It ma kes him ver y rea l. You k now, he’s t his wonderf u l founder of our Universit y, he’s la rger t ha n life, [but] even he sometimes would ma ke a mista ke,” Haa ke sa id. Haa ke sa id t hat he has been “pleasa nt ly surprised” by how easy it has been to get to k now Sorin t hrough t he letters. “I t hin k t hat’s one of t he best pa rts about it is discovering his persona lit y in a ver y aut hentic way because t hese a re a ll a rtifacts f rom his life,” Haa ke sa id. A f ter a sizable a mount of t he letters a re tra nscribed a nd tra nslated, Haa ke sa id t hey w ill be published as a dig ita l a rchive.
modest, opening the door for domestic companies including SpaceX and other nations to occupy this market share. He then turned the audience’s attention toward China. “China has completely transformed their economy in 30 years from a developing state to an impressive middle-income country,” he said. “The nation is at an inf lection point, transitioning from an investment-based economy to a consumerbased economy like the U.S.” Under the leadership of President Xi Jinping, China has embarked on a series of large projects in space to conduct complex operations. “China’s ambitions will put their space program into closer contact with the U.S., unlocking a broad level of security and cooperation challenges,” he said.
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In the United States, military and civilian space interests are beginning to interact more and more. The past few years in particular have witnessed increasing collaboration between SpaceX, Blue Origin and NASA. “While the Russians and Chinese have armed up in space, the U.S. trails behind,” Bahney said. He pointed to the Cuban Missile Crisis as a prime example of the existential risk that spirals from not having sufficient mechanisms to limit other nations’ competition. He said he suggests Washington look to forge new space arms control policies and other mechanisms to ensure that competition remains peaceful. “The pivotal question for us to answer is what our space priorities are going to be,” Bahney said. Contact Jack Viscuso at jviscuso@nd.edu Paid Advertisement
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To the sports department, thank you and I’ll be back Mannion McGinley Assistant Managing Editor
“If you can’t play sports? Write ‘em.” Former Sports Editor Hayden Adams quoted fellow former Sports Editor Ellen Geyer on that point throughout my entire first two years in the department. So that’s what I did and now, I wear those words on my wrist daily. The quote is written on a black bracelet with “Observer Sports” on the other side. The Observer has been the strongest constant in my time here at Notre Dame and the Sports Department quickly became my home within the office. I’ll never forget writing my first Sports Authority the second I finished moving in freshman year. Or training production under Stephen Hannon and a month later at the Observer tailgate, Charlotte Edmonds and Kelli Smith nicknaming me “Baby Stephen” because I had quickly gotten the hang of it. I’ll never forget my first time in a football press box either. First, at Soldier Field, and then again back in the House that Rockne built, a place I stepped into the first time when I was nine. Or the four-day trip to Glendale, Arizona with three of my favorite people on staff, all of whom I couldn’t have more respect for. The Sports Department gave me all of that, and I spent the last year giving my all in return. But now, I’ve officially earned the title of “former” Sports Editor. My days of tracking three spreadsheets at once at any given moment, running department meetings and sending deadline reminders. While I won’t miss those pieces, I’m going to miss picking up last-minute stories, being point person for the Irish Insiders and working with such an amazing department. The late nights in the basement of South Dining Hall will forever be some of my favorite memories. Luckily, I’m not leaving just yet, simply zooming out. After a brief hiatus from Sports (which will include a short stint in Scene, so stay tuned), I’ll come back to writing for the department (I doubt I’ll even make it two weeks). As an Assistant Managing Editor, though, I’m excited to see everything that comes across the back editor desk from all departments. But, I’m especially excited to see the work that comes out of Sports in the next year. And, I want to thank my incredible staff for all the work they did this year. To all of my Associate Sports Editors. Specifically to Emily DeFazio, my fellow productionready ASE. Thank you for stepping up at the end of your freshman year to join my ASEs and sticking with it. Liam Coolican, thank you for coming back from abroad and falling right in step with picking up stories and shifts. Your basketball coverage has been stellar. And, Olivia Schatz. Thank you for believing in me and launching headfirst into an ASE role you didn’t know much about. Additionally, thank you for writing engaging (occasionally biting) and page-turning Sports Authorities and for making remote shifts that much more entertaining — especially if you’re the one working and not me. You’re killing it, and I can’t wait to see you take on more coverage. To Nate Moller, like Brady and Gronk, every time I needed a story taken, you were there with reliable, well-written pieces. There’s not a track moment uncovered or a space on the hockey budget unfilled, not to mention football, basketball and anything else that cropped up. Thank you. To Andrew McGuinness and Maddie Ladd, you both have done amazing work this year and it paid off. I am so lucky I get to see you join the ranks as ASEs. To Jamison Cook and Colin Capece, even with much bigger fish to fry on so many fronts, you made sure your usual content was not missing from this year’s coverage. Thank you for the brilliant angles on everything from Bengal and Baraka Bouts to men’s soccer and coaching columns. You guys did it all. To the Irish Insider squad, Allison Thornton and Maggie Klaers, we did it, ladies. Dare I say, these were the best Insider covers I’ve seen in my three years (read: ever). And they came from an all-girl squad, which is pretty cool too if I do say so myself. Maggie, you, Aidan and Ryan will kill it next year and Allison, we are going to miss you so much. To all of the new writers, production workers and editors and to the incredible writers that make up the existing staff, thank you so much. You made this year a breeze and I couldn’t have asked for a better department. New writers, break out of your shells. Take the piece you’re nervous about, ask the questions you want to ask. There’s power in your pen and you are joining up with a group of people who know how to wield it. Ask them for help. They’ll show you the way as some of them showed me. To “elder” Top-5, for believing in me and trusting me to lead the department. It was one of the greatest experiences of my life. I can’t wait to have another great experience in your shoes. And lastly, to Aidan Thomas, the new Sports Editor. You thought you could fly under the radar at the Observer but if we were a football team, you’d be an every-down back. Anything from short dump passes and picking up blocks, to 96-yard touchdown runs, you were there. I so appreciate you stepping up to join this year’s ASEs. It’s where you belong. Thank you for doing the leg work with the football beat and for running analytics on all things sports. And, (for everyone’s sake) I hope your tenure passes with minimal coaching movement. As always, if any of you need anything, you know where to find me. I’ll probably still be at the Sports Desk, despite my new computer being one seat over. You can contact Mannion at mmcginl3@nd.edu The views expressed in this Inside Column are those of the author and not necessarily those of The Observer.
Andrew Sveda Church and State
Listening to a playlist one night alone in my dorm room, a new song started playing. It began: “Not what my hands have done / can save my guilty soul…” I didn’t even get that far before skipping to the next song. I had heard it many times before and had some particularly fond memories of it. But I really did not want to listen to it that night. “I don’t need this,” I thought. “I already feel bad enough about myself. I need something that makes me feel good. How could a song like this relieve and free me from the heaviness and burden of my sin? I need something to boost my spirits, not to break it to pieces.” So often we deceive ourselves as to what we need. We naturally try to avoid reflection on our own sin at all costs. This has been true in every generation. It is one thing to talk about man’s sinful condition in a general sense. It is another thing to see such darkness in yourself, to understand that when the Bible talks about the depravity of man, it is talking about you personally. Even when we begin to understand something of the heinousness of our sin, there is still a strong urge to put such things out of our mind and run away from Christ rather than coming to Him for grace and forgiveness. When we feel this way, alarm bells should be going off. Something is off in our thinking. One reason people, knowing their sin, do not go to Christ for mercy is because of pride and self-righteousness. Going to Christ with no good of our own is something of an undoing of oneself. It would be the death of us to come to Him like a beggar, to approach the Savior with absolutely nothing, with no good work and no righteousness of our own. But this is your condition. Imagine a person refusing life-saving heart surgery, choosing to rather die than be seen as needy. Everyone in their right mind would call him absolutely foolish. Reader, you are desperately needy — more so than this person, for their illness is physical and temporary while yours is spiritual and the punishment eternal if you do not go to the Savior. One small pin is enough to pop the frail balloon you call your righteousness. The Bible says, “We have all become like one who is unclean, and all our righteous deeds are like a polluted garment. We all fade like a leaf, and our iniquities, like the wind, take us away” (Isaiah 64:6). This is the truth. Don’t lull yourself to sleep with fantasies that you are “a good person.” “The LORD looks down from heaven on the children of man, to see if there are any who understand, who seek after God. They have all turned aside; together they have become corrupt; there is none who does good, not even one” (Psalm 14:2-3; cf. Romans 3:10-12). If you don’t accept this reality now and flee from the wrath to come by repenting and believing in Jesus Christ, you will die in your sins and suffer eternal condemnation in hell.
I never said giving up on trying to save yourself was a painless process. But Jesus said, “whoever would save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake will find it” (Matthew 16:25). There’s no way around it. There’s no alternate way into Heaven for the “truly good people.” There is one door and one way. You must go through that door or you can never enter. “Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven” (Matthew 5:3). Another, though not necessarily mutually exclusive, reaction is utter despair and depression. One feels something of the weight and severity of their sin. How can such a sinful person like me be made clean? Yes, God can forgive people; He has. But, such a person may say, I know the darkness of my own heart. I am too wretched a sinner to be saved. And so the heart sinks into hopeless darkness. If this is you, look to Christ for salvation. Look to what He has done for you on the Cross. Your sins are exceedingly great, but “Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners” (1 Timothy 1:15). “Christ … suffered once for sins, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring us to God,” and His “blood … cleanses us from all sin” (1 Peter 3:18,1 John 1:7). His death was an atonement for real, terrible sins, and “[w]here there is forgiveness of [sins], there is no longer any offering for sin” (Hebrews 10:18). We are saved, wholly and completely, not because of anything we have done but because of what He has done for us. “By grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast” (Ephesians 2:8-9). “But I,” you say. But He! “But God,” says the gospel! He has saved tax collectors, Pharisees, prostitutes and even the chief of sinners (Ephesians 2:4, 1 Timothy 1:15). Go to Him as one of these great sinners and you will find abounding grace and welcome. No longer despair that it is not by your hands that you can save your guilty soul. Rather rejoice that it is precisely not by your works that you are saved, for your righteousness would not last a second before God’s throne. You would have no assurance and peace with God if salvation was not all of grace and all of God. It is the Lord Himself who made “purification for sins” and “[i]t is God who justifies,” and He testified to this by raising Jesus from the dead, who is seated at the right hand of the Father (Hebrews 1:3, Romans 8:33). “Therefore, having been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ” (Romans 5:1). Andrew Sveda is a junior at Notre Dame from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, majoring in political science with a supplementary major in theology. In his free time, he enjoys writing (obviously), reading and playing the piano. He can be reached at asveda@nd.edu or @SvedaAndrew on Twitter. The views expressed in this column are those of the author and not necessarily those of The Observer.
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LETTER TO THE EDITOR
The importance of Ukrainian statehood and why it continues to matter Russia’s br uta l, unprovoked invasion of Uk ra ine has united t he f ree world w it h t he Uk ra inia n people a nd t he Uk ra inia n state. 20,000 foreig n volunteers have joined Uk ra ine’s Leg ion of Territoria l Defense a nd f unding has poured in for huma nita ria n assista nce a nd t he Uk ra inia n mi lita r y. On our ca mpus, t ha n ks to t he generosit y of t he Not re Da me communit y, t he Uk ra inia n Societ y has ra ised over $ 6,700 in suppor t of Cat holic Relief Ser v ices’ huma nita ria n effor ts in Uk ra ine. As Uk ra inia ns ourselves, we a re eterna l ly g ratef u l for t his outpouring of suppor t. In t hese most hea r tbrea k ing days in decades, it has been impossible to ig nore t he blue-a nd-yel low f lags a nd pins adorning our ca mpus. As t he wa r approaches its f if t h week, it is imperat ive t hat t he attack on Uk ra inia n statehood a nd da i ly suf fering of t he Uk ra inia n people not be norma li zed as a not her a f ter t hought in t he scope of current events. W hile t he demonst rat ion of g loba l solida rit y w it h Uk ra ine has been encourag ing, we ca nnot a llow t his passion for t he Uk ra inia n cause to w it her away w it h t ime. Put in’s assau lt on Uk ra ine is more t ha n a not her foreig n wa r — it is a n aut horita ria n attack t hat t hreatens t he libera l democrat ic foundat ion of t he Western world. V ladimir Put in has made his mot ivat ions for attack ing Uk ra ine ex plicit ly clea r. Eight yea rs ago, when Put in’s “litt le g reen men” invaded Crimea a nd Russia init iated a sepa rat ist movement in t he Donbas reg ion of eastern Uk ra ine, Put in cla imed to “act ively defend t he rights of Russia ns” f rom “t he mercy of nat iona list a nd radica l mi lita nts.” His reasoning is f lawed on mu lt iple counts: t hese “Russia ns” established t heir ident it y as Uk ra inia ns by vot ing in suppor t of Uk ra inia n
independence in 1991, a nd t hey enjoy sig nif ica nt ly g reater democrat ic rights in Uk ra ine t ha n t hey wou ld in Russia. In fact, it is t he Put in reg ime t hat wou ld subject t hem to t he mercy of a nat iona list a nd radica l milita nt who fought a br uta l wa r in Chechnya a nd invaded Georg ia. Now, Put in murders t he ver y “Russia ns” whom he cla ims to protect. In t he ea rly hours of Febr ua r y 24, 2022, Put in stated t hat t he Russia n Federat ion wou ld engage in a “specia l milita r y operat ion” to achieve t he “demilita ri zat ion a nd de-Na zif icat ion of Uk ra ine.” Russia’s president is deluded on bot h f ronts. First, Uk ra ine’s quick milita ri zat ion was precisely in response to Put in’s 2014 invasion, mea ning t hat he a ims to reverse Uk ra ine’s defensive response to his ow n act ions. Second, Uk ra ine’s democrat ica lly-elected leader, Volody my r Zelensk y y, is Jew ish; deNa zif icat ion of a state led by a Jew must surely be a dif f icu lt task to accomplish. Fur t hermore, on Ma rch 1, Put in’s missiles ra ined dow n nea r Baby n Ya r, a Uk ra inia n Holocaust memoria l pa rk where tens of t housa nds of Jews were massacred a nd buried in mass g raves. Put in’s cla ims shou ld never be ta ken seriously. The Russia n invasion of Uk ra ine is best understood by a na lyzing rea lit y on eit her side of t he border. In Uk ra ine, we see t he t r ut h. A t heater sheltering over a t housa nd civ ilia ns, blata nt ly labeled “k ids” on t he g round outside, was bombed in Ma riupol. A maternit y hospita l in t he sa me cit y was a lso attacked, k illing t hree civ ilia ns a nd injuring seventeen. Ten people wa it ing in line for bread in Chernihiv were shot a nd k illed by Russia n soldiers. These a re Put in’s wa r crimes, for which he is responsible. In Russia, we see t he suppression of t r ut h a nd t he lies of state propaga nda. Wit hin on ly t he f irst t wo weeks of t he wa r, police a rrested more
t ha n 13,000 protest ing cit i zens. This week, police in Novosibirsk a rrested a ma n holding a bla n k sheet of paper. In a n act of horrif ic disinformat ion, Russia n of f icia ls baselessly cla imed t hat t he Ma riupol maternit y hospita l attack was staged. Underly ing Put in’s reg ime of lies is his “Z” propaga nda ca mpa ig n, which has ra l lied t he Russia n popu lace behind his unjust wa r. It is tel ling t hat he feels t he need to lie to his ow n people about t he deliberate slaughter of Uk ra inia n civ i lia ns in order to ga in domest ic suppor t, a nd simi la rly sha mef u l t hat t he average Russia n believes t he lies he is fed. This is today’s Russia, a nat ion of puppets bui lt upon a cast le of sa nd. Put in’s act ions a re a t hreat to t he ent ire f ree world. W hi le ex pressions of admirat ion a nd unit y w it h Uk ra ine a re va luable, t hey lack sig nif ica nce if forgotten a mont h f rom now. Uk ra ine’s principa l crime is t hat its people va lue libera l democracy a nd st rive to better implement t his foundat ion for governa nce. Put in’s wa r on Uk ra inia n statehood enda ngers t he system of libera l democracy in t he face of t he aut horita ria n t hreat, for libera l democracy holds litt le va lue if it ca nnot even sta nd up to protect its ow n brot hers. Democracy is government by t he w i l l of t he people — if t he Uk ra inia n people seek to govern t hemselves, who is Put in to determine t heir just reg ime ? Christian McKernan junior Marko Gural first-year March 18 The views expressed in this letter to the editor are those of the author and not necessarily those of The Observer.
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By ISA SHEIKH Scene Writer
“Revenge,” Miriam “Midge” Maisel says as the camera reveals her silhouette on stage, cigarette in hand, stage lights right in her face. “Oh, do I want it.” “You should be a bigger man and just let it go,” Maisel thinks aloud. “Well, I’m a woman. So f*ck that.” Launching into a genuinely funny routine about “Shakespearean revenge,” Maisel begins to plot dastardly vengeance: digging up her high school instrument and playing klezmer music next to you 24 hours a day, sneaking into your basement and frying a fish or befriending your only daughter and subsequently setting her up with a poet she’ll marry. There’s a reason why I was glued to my futon last semester in dire need of some cough syrup. The sitcom was enough of a remedy to get me through those unmedicated nights. I was shocked that I hadn’t seen this show earlier — I had missed perhaps one of the most original series in years. The recreated 1950s New York City, the hats and coats, the zany but grounded plot lines and the nostalgic aesthetics create a perfect world to escape into. Its return is more than welcome. The fourth and penultimate season of “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel,” now streaming in its entirety on Amazon Prime, opens with this scene of the titular character (an Emmy-winning portrayal by Rachel Brosnahan) on stage at The Gaslight. We were introduced to the seedy Greenwich Village coffeehouse and club in the very first episode of the series, when Mrs. Maisel would bake a brisket each week so her husband
By MATHEUS HERNDL Scene Writer
In a decade filled with sequels and reboots, few new intellectual properties made an impact on the gaming industry like 2017’s Horizon Zero Dawn. Zero Dawn takes place over a thousand years in a future where humanity had reverted into tribal societies that hunted mysterious animal-like machines that now populate the planet after a cataclysmic event. The protagonist, Aloy, must investigate how the old world came to an end whilst discovering her mysterious past to prevent another apocalypse. Zero Dawn was an instant critical and commercial success and so a sequel was in store, but how do you improve upon a near-perfect game? The answer: improve on everything. Horizon Forbidden West does what every great sequel should, build upon the strengths of the first game while developing on what did not work in the original. In almost every department, Forbidden West one-ups its predecessor except in one key area: its story. As an open world game, the map is an important character, and it can only be described as stunning. The map stretches from western Utah all the way to the sunken ruins of San Francisco. The diversity of the map is just as impressive, featuring arid deserts, lush
Joel (Michael Zegen) could get a slot on stage that night and perform a lazy routine while Midge sat and dutifully made notes on which lines worked better than most. It’s the same club where she launched her own comedy career in a wild performance the night Joel decided to end their marriage. Back to the beginning. Embittered once more, this season sees Midge once more struggling with her unglamorous career, coping with her family’s shenanigans, a confused romantic future and much more. While it may be a return to square one following the fallout of the previous season and can at moments feel redundant, it works. Creator and showrunner Amy Sherman-Palladino of “Gilmore Girls” is still writing and directing as wittily as ever. There are more than enough inventive plot lines to keep the audience glued to the screen, including an emcee gig that Midge takes at a less-than-legal establishment and the involvement of the mob in procuring an office space. Even the mundane, from Midge walking down a busy street to a scene of her father writing a review of a play at the typewriter, is endlessly watchable. While the dialogue is written masterfully, the series could not have a better cast. In particular, Tony Shalhoub marvels in another Emmy-winning role as Midge’s buttoned-down father, Abe, the former Columbia math professor embarking on a career shift himself. Marin Hinkle, playing Midge’s mother Rose, is hilarious as a woman far too proper to understand any of Midge’s antics. Zegen, playing the estranged husband who is introduced to us as such an egregious villain, continues to make Joel a compelling character as he faces his own romantic prospects while
opening a club of his own in Chinatown. Kevin Pollak and Caroline Aaron are laugh-out-loud funny as Joel’s parents and some of the best line deliveries of the season, both sardonic and emotional, go to Alex Borstein, who plays Midge’s butch trouble-ridden manager Susie. Jane Lynch also shines in her recurring role as a washed-up comic. Many of Mrs. Maisel’s problems are never as real as they would be in real life — she may be broke, but she can buy back her old apartment; she might be a working mother, but she never has to take care of her children; her husband left her, but she has prospects! And that’s why it’s so easy to escape into this absolutely delightful world. Unlike other successful entertainment projects that might revel in tension and anxiety, sitting down to watch an episode of “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” is the perfectly witty, adroit, emotionally intelligent escape from the far-too-real and un-colorcoordinated realities of reality. And goodness is Tony Shalhoub fantastic.
green jungles, snowy mountains and coastal beach areas. A new addition is the diving mask, which allows the players to explore underwater locations. The beauty of the open world is only emphasized by the graphics. Although I was playing on a standard PS4, this is one of the best-looking games on the platform. The character models and animations are another huge upgrade from the original, Aloy is probably one of the most realistic and well animated video game protagonists to this day. Her facial expressions are noticeably better than the last game. Forbidden is similar to Zero Dawn in gameplay, the key difference is the combat pacing, which is changed by the introduction of a myriad of new weapons and gadgets. The RPG elements from the first game have also been vastly expanded. Aloy now has 6 skill trees that determine everything from her ability to stealthily take down enemies to her to control of machines. Similarly, the melee combat has been completely revamped with the introduction wof combo and special moves to help Aloy deal with armored human enemies. But the selling point of this franchise is the hostile machines that Aloy must hunt for resources. Forbidden West boasts an impressive roster of 43 machines,
bringing back all the fan favorites from the original game whilst introducing 22 new fearsome killer robots. Forbidden West encourages players to prepare and plan before facing machines, every robot has its own unique weaknesses and weak spots that you must exploit to take them down, adding a layer of strategy that wasn’t present before. Forbidden West falls short of Zero Dawn is in its story. The plot of the first game was near perfect, featuring an intriguing mystery that perfectly connects to Aloy’s origin as well as the coming apocalypse. The problem here is that by the end of Zero Dawn, almost all the questions regarding the machines and why humanity fell are answered. Uncovering these mysteries was my favorite aspect of the first game.
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“The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” Starring: Rachel Brosnahan, Tony Shalhoub Director: Amy Sherman-Palladino If you like: “Gilmore Girls,” “Monk,” “Hacks,” Mel Brooks’s Jewish sense of comedy
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Horoscope | Eugenia Last Happy Birthday: How you approach life, love, happiness and what’s meaningful to you will contribute to your security and comfort for years to come. Contemplate the consequences before you make a move, and you’ll make a better decision. Don’t limit the possibilities; make use of what’s available. An idea planned and executed with patience and attention to detail will encourage success. Your numbers are 5, 12, 18, 23, 34, 37, 48. ARIES (March 21-April 19): Live in the moment. Don’t waste time pleasing someone who sees a fault in everything. Lighten up, and put your thoughts and energy into what you can do, will do and have done. Life is what you make it, so do things your way. TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Headway requires discipline. Adjust to what’s going on around you, and use any opportunity you get to explore and expand something that interests you. Check out what you need to do to start something new or finish what you’ve left undone. GEMINI (May 21-June 20):Consider whether you are heading in the right direction. Talk to someone in the know about what you’d like to do. Sign up for a course or scour the internet for information, and you’ll gain insight into possibilities. Romance is featured. CANCER ( June 21-July 22): Invest in yourself. Be willing to go the distance to ensure you get the most out of what you have to offer. Don’t let what others do shatter your confidence or cause you to question the things you want to pursue. LEO ( July 23-Aug. 22): Get in the game, play to win and don’t worry about what others do or say. Make changes that put your mind at ease and make your life easier. Focus on love, self-improvement and stability. Don’t let outside influences disrupt your day. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Rely on experience to help evaluate sensitive situations. Listen, and respond with compassion; you’ll make a difference that brings about positive change. Revisit connections, make amends, let go of the past and move forward. Peace of mind is priceless. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Do something that makes you happy, motivates you or encourages spending more time with someone you love. Set a personal goal, and distance yourself from situations that are wastes of money or time. SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Don’t share secrets. Stay focused on something that you enjoy doing. An innovative idea will give you a new lease on life and a pursuit that enables you to improve intellectually and financially. Don’t ignore change; embrace the opportunity. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Stay out of the line of fire. Someone will twist and turn things around to satisfy their needs. Keep your facts straight, and focus on your needs. Refuse to let anyone interfere with your plans or take advantage of you. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): File away information others share, and it will give you the edge regarding their likes, dislikes and reliability. Search for a unique outlet to use your skills and money, and you’ll figure out a way to enrich your life. AQUARIUS ( Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Plan your next move. A safety net will put your mind at ease regarding financial and emotional stability. A joint venture or shared expenses with someone you love and trust appears promising. Share your thoughts, and protect your interests. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Leave nothing to chance. Let experience lead the way and intuition step in when necessary. Be willing to fight for what’s right and walk away from no-win situations or those who take a different path. Be true to yourself. Birthday Baby: You are outspoken, original and assertive. You are enchanting and trendy.
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Breaking down the Selection Show By TOM ZWILLER Sports Writer
In a weekend full of action across sports including men’s and women’s March Madness, NBA action, NHL action, and NFL trades, one event went slightly under the radar: the NCA A Div ision I hockey selection show. The selection show, which took place on Sunday, March 20 at 6:30 p.m. on ESPNU, is where teams and fans alike find out the bracket for the upcoming tournament. Sixteen teams compete for the chance to make the final Frozen Four weekend and the opportunit y for college hockey glor y. Notre Dame received the No. 3 seed in the A lbany regional, and a challenging path awaits the Irish.
Notre Dame’s Path The Irish are coming off a close loss to Michigan 1-2. The Irish are currently one of the countr y’s top defensive teams, allow ing 2.11 goals per game. Notre Dame has featured an abilit y to beat opponents in many ways. The 2.11 goals allowed display their suffocating defense, and the Irish particularly thrive when killing penalties. Offensively, the Irish have plent y of depth. Five players scored 10+ goals for Notre Dame, and an additional two skaters dished out 20 assists. W hen they are on, they are a tough team to beat. But the Irish have also suffered blowout losses, 5-1 to Minnesota and 4-1 to Ohio State among others. They went 2-5 in seven games that they gave up 4+ goals. It’s what makes it so hard to pick games for Notre Dame. They’re one of those teams that could w in the whole thing or be out after the first round. For Notre Dame, they start the tournament by play ing North Dakota and most likely play Minnesota State in the second round. W hile the odds of the Irish beating the Mavericks are not that great but let us say the Irish sur v ive and advance. In my opinion, their most likely opponent would be Minnesota. Minnesota beat ND in the season series, 3-1 by a total margin of seven goals. Again, let’s say Notre Dame advanced where, based on seeding, they would face Michigan in the national
championship. In the regular season, Notre Dame swept Michigan 4-0 (14-8 goal differential), but two of those games went into overtime. And in the Big 10 playoffs, Michigan was able to beat Notre Dame. But a w in is certainly possible. Notre Dame’s ceiling, ev idenced by four w ins over Michigan, is good enough to w in the tournament. However, inconsistencies or a cold streak could also see the Irish feature a quick ex it. Hav ing looked at Notre Dame’s path, here’s a look at the other teams in the region.
Albany Region: In Notre Dame’s regional lies the number t wo overall seed and a team that might be the most complete in hockey. W hile I thought Minnesota State would be the first seed, Michigan’s performance in the conference playoffs was enough to get them past Minnesota State. Make no mistake, though; the Mavericks are a lethal team, the only team w ith a top-two scoring offense and defense (4.17, 1.27). The RPI difference (Ratings Percentage Index) bet ween Michigan and Minnesota State was .0007. The difference bet ween Minnesota State and Western Michigan, the third-best team by RPI, is .0291. A mere hair separates Michigan and Minnesota. Their opponent and 15thoverall seed is Har vard, who won an auto bid by beating Quinnipiac 3-2 in OT. Har vard is a hot team, hav ing won 10 of their 14 since Februar y. Expect the Crimson to have a scrappy defense as they rank top-10 in the nation. A lso in the quadrant is No. 7 North Dakota, who lost to Western Michigan 4-2 in the NCHC semi-finals. The Fighting Hawks boast a record of 23-13-1 this season and by RPI are 7th in the countr y (.5720). It’s a tough but w innable region for Notre Dame. If the Irish w in t w ice in A lbany, they’ll advance to the Frozen Four in Boston.
Zwiller: The quarterback carousel continues on Tom Zwiller Sports Writer
Between break and then school, I have not been able to talk about the crazy NFL offseason. March 8th saw Russel Wilson traded, March 9th Carson Wentz traded. Later in the week, Tom Brady came back from the dead, and this weekend Deshaun Watson traded to the Browns. Today, I will cover the QB moves to make up for the lost time. Later in the week, I will turn to other interesting nonQB transactions.
Russell Wilson This was a move that I detailed way back in March of 2021, where I said that Russell would likely not trade teams because of the salary cap. However, I was undoubtedly less surprised to see him dealt this season. The unhappiness Wilson had experienced combined with Seattle’s lack of success made sense that Seattle would deal Wilson. The Seahawks traded Wilson to the Denver Broncos (making him the first-ever QB to play for a team he beat in the Super Bowl) and got a good haul in return. The Broncos sent two first-round picks; two second-round picks, QB Drew Lock and TE Noah Fant and DE Shelby Harris. In return, the Broncos got Wilson and a fourth-round pick. I love this trade for the Broncos. The Broncos offense ranked 18th with Teddy Bridgewater (19th by ZLO) and Drew Lock (47th) at the helm. Wilson, who ranked 16th in a down year, should be a significant improvement that allows the offense to improve dramatically. In addition, Nathaniel Hackett (the former Green Bay Packers offensive coordinator) should be able to bring elements of the Matt LeFleur offense to Denver. I think that the Broncos will miss Noah Fant (48th as a pass-catcher, 9th as a TE) and Shelby Harris (30th DE), but getting rid of Lock and his 1.45 million salary cap was helpful, to both sides. Seattle gets an A. That A is 100% graded on a curve because it is hard to win a trade when you send away the face of your franchise. The Broncos get an A- because I would have liked to have seen them give up a little less.
Carson Wentz Contact Tom Zwiller at tzwiller@hcc-nd.edu The views expressed in this column are those of the author and not necessarily those of The Observer.
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most confusing of all the transactions on the Colts’ side. The Commanders had been reported to have wanted Russell Wilson, and once he had been dealt to Denver, it made sense that the Commanders would turn their attention elsewhere. So, the Colts sent Carson Wentz and a 2022 secondround pick. The Commanders sent a 2022 third-rounder and a 2022 second, and a 2023 third (it can turn into a second if Wentz plays 70% of his snaps). For the Commanders, I honestly think this was a good pickup. They got Wentz relatively cheap and now have a solidly average QB as their starter (Wentz ranks 18th as a pure passer). Last season, Taylor Heinicke, the starter for 15 games for the WFT, was ranked 33rd. Call it a B+. The Colts are a little more confusing. When Wentz was initially traded, I predicted that Wentz would have a Passer Rating of 99.05. This season, Wentz had an RTG of 94.6, so while he may have come up short, he still performed well. Since the beginning, I have said that the Colts had to have had a second move coming down the pipeline. I sincerely doubt that the Colts would simply send away a QB who performed well to have no one at the spot. Initially, I figured that QB would have been Jimmy Garoppolo, as Trey Lance has spent his rookie year mainly on the bench, and the 49ers would like to try out their young prospect. However, I think it could just as easily be Baker Mayfield with all the Deshaun Watson drama (more on that in a bit).
Tom Brady Tom Brady un-retiring before Tampa Bay could even play one snap without him killed me inside. As a Panthers fan, we have only had to play Brady twice a year for two years, but the prospect of facing him for another year is daunting. With Brady back, there is no reason that Tampa is not the automatic favorite to win the division. The roster is loaded, and with Brady coming back, I expect players like Gronk (who only wanted to play for a contender) to come back.
declined to charge the Texans QB. Legally speaking, he is innocent. Now, the 22 civil suits filed against Watson remain, those will likely be settled, and we will never get an answer as to what happened. In addition, I imagine Watson will at least be suspended for six games, and I could see it going to as many as eight. He has not been suspended thus far because the Texans had zero interest in playing him. The Browns, of course, will look to start Watson, which will result in a suspension being handed out by the league office. Just because there was a lack of a legal charge does not mean the NFL cannot suspend someone. The Browns sent away three first-round picks (including this year’s 13th pick) and a future third and fourth-round pick. The Texans sent Watson and a fifth. This trade gets an automatic A on the Texans’ side. The Texans have a cheap young QB in Davis Mills to build around and have the assets to do so. They got rid of Watson and the negative PR surrounding him. In addition, they are only on the hook for 16.2 million of Watson’s gargantuan contract. The Browns get an A on the football side of things (the morality grade is slightly different). With Amari Cooper and Watson, the Browns are now the best team in the AFC North, in my opinion. Winning the North is another question, seeing as Watson could easily miss half the season with a suspension.
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Deshaun Watson Sigh. You write a whole column about this one. First things first, I will not immediately jump to the football side of things. The grand jury in charge of the Watson case
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Observer Athlete of the Week: Olivia Miles, Cormac Ryan deliver iconic March performances By AIDAN THOMAS Sports Editor
March Madness began this week, leading to the opportunit y for big-stage performances. However, the Irish spring sports were also in action. A nd they weren’t about to let the players on the hardwood steal all the glor y. Here’s how the Athlete of the Week voting turned out.
However, Ryan followed that up w ith a career day in the round of 64. He took nine three-pointers and made seven of them. Backed by those seven triples, Ryan poured in 29 points, a career-high. That sparked Notre Dame to a v ictor y over sixthseeded A labama and into the round of 32. For an outstanding performance, followed by a career-best effort, Ryan earned his first Men’s Athlete of the Week
Men’s Athlete of the Week: Cormac Ryan, Notre Dame men’s basketball
Honorable Mention: Liam Entenmann, Notre Dame lacrosse
As far as easy selections go, this one ranked prett y high. Cormac Ryan delivered a gutsy effort in the First Four against Rutgers. His 16 points and three steals were a key factor in Notre Dame’s 89-87 doubleovertime v ictor y. One of those steals was a critical one late in overtime to help put the Irish back in the lead.
W hile Ryan’s performance dominated headlines, junior goaltender Liam Entenmann held it dow n for the Irish lacrosse squad. The No. 15 Irish toppled the No. 17 Michigan Wolverines, 12-7. Entenmann’s defensive effort sparked the v ictor y, as he delivered a 19-save performance. It represented a career-high performance
for Entenmann, which earned him his first nomination and the Men’s Athlete of the Week Honorable Mention.
Women’s Athlete of the Week: Olivia Miles, Notre Dame women’s basketball Women’s Athlete of the Week features yet another iconic March Madness performance. Freshman guard Oliv ia Miles stepped up in the round of 64 and delivered a triple-double. Not only did it boost the Irish to a firstround v ictor y over UMass, but the performance put Miles into the Irish record books. She became just the third Notre Dame woman to post multiple triple-doubles in her career. It was also just the tenth triple-double in Notre Dame women’s basketball histor y. A historic performance in a pressure situation earned Paid Advertisement
Oliv ia Miles her fifth nomination for the award and the Women’s Athlete of the Week.
Honorable Mention: Shannon Becker, Notre Dame Softball Notre Dame softball took to the diamond on five occasions last week. In four of those games, freshman pitcher Shannon Becker made an appearance in the pitcher’s circle. And on none of those occasions did Becker allow a run. She delivered eleven innings of shutout softball, giv ing up eight hits and t wo walks and struck out nine. She nailed the door shut on several games, notching t wo saves. Becker also picked up the w in w ith five innings of t wo-hit ball against Pittsburgh. Becker now sits w ith a 7-1 record and a spark ling 0.88 ERA. Her efforts this week earned her the Women’s Athlete of the Week
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Team of the Week: Notre Dame Softball As aforementioned, the Irish softball team played five times this week. They were v ictorious in all five, claiming t wo-midweek v ictories and then sweeping Pitt to extend their w inning streak to six games. They also improved to 4-2 in ACC play. The Irish gave up just nine runs over five games, starting w ith an 18-0 v ictor y over Detroit Mercy. Follow ing that, the Irish toppled Western Michigan 7-2. After w inning the opener 7-5 over the Panthers, Notre Dame then slammed their conference opponents t w ice, 11-0 and 8-2. Overall, they outscored their opponents 51-9 over five games and earned the team of the week for the second time this spring. Contact Aidan Thomas at athoma28@nd.edu
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The Red Raiders came into the contest holding opponents to the second-lowest field goal percentage among major-conference teams. Notre Dame shot just 32.7% from the field on the night, after relying on hot shooting through their first two NCAA tournament wins. They had shot better than 50% in their victories over Rutgers and Alabama to open the tournament. It was an incredibly balanced scoring attack in the first half for the Irish — each of Notre Dame’s seven rotation players made exactly one field goal. The team as a whole shot just 25% from the floor, but they remained within just a point thanks to a strong defensive effort. The Irish took an early 7-6 lead but subsequently went cold from the field. They didn’t score for more than 6 minutes, allowing the Red Raiders to go on a 6-0 run. A three from senior guard Dane Goodwin finally broke the drought, and senior forward Nate Laszewski followed that with a triple of his own to tie the game. Texas Tech once again went ahead by six near the end of the first half, but a three from senior guard Cormac Ryan, his first points of the night after a career-high 29 point performance against Alabama, and a buzzer-beating layup from freshman guard Blake Wesley reduced the lead just a point heading into halftime. The Irish entered the locker room trailing 26-25. Goodwin began to heat up in the second half for the Irish. He finished with a team-high 14 points, 11 of which came in the second period, and also grabbed 8 rebounds. After Texas Tech opened another 6
point lead with 12:49 to play, Goodwin’s three-pointer keyed an 11-2 run to put Notre Dame up by three. It was their first lead of the second half, but it wouldn’t last long. “I’m glad we went out fighting,” Goodwin said. “We really gave ourselves a chance and fought through it to the end, and that’s what you ask for.” The Red Raiders immediately responded with six straight points, but Goodwin again had the answer. The Irish maintained this slim lead until there were under two minutes to play, but Texas Tech scored nine consecutive points to put the game away. “Everybody was down. I just wanted to make sure everybody keeps their heads up,” senior guard Prentiss Hubb said after the game. “I thought we had a great year through all the ups and downs.” The Red Raiders didn’t hit a field goal for more than six minutes down the stretch, but the Irish continually put them on the free-throw line. Free throws ultimately proved to be the difference in the game. The Red Raiders knocked down 13 of 14 free-throw attempts in the second half, whereas the Irish only hit 4 of 9. “I’m disappointed because I don’t get to coach this nucleus anymore, and, man, were they energizing to work with every day,” Brey said. Notre Dame now heads back to South Bend and turns their attention to next year. The entire roster — with the exception of graduate transfer Paul Atkinson, Jr. — has the opportunity to return next year. “I told them. I said, we have a bunch of guys here that have to make some decisions,” Brey said. “And the big thing is no one has to make that decision fast.” Contact Liam Coolican at lcoolica@nd.edu
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drop and had a good look on goal, but Entenmann made a great save to keep the Wolverines off the board. The Irish had some good looks on the following possession, but they were unable to score. The Wolverines had a great look moments later with a twoon-two chance on goal and Entenmann out of position, but Entenmann was able to retreat and get back in time to make a fantastic diving save. The Irish had a string of shots in the middle part of the first quarter, but Wolverine goalie Shane Carr stood strong in net, preventing the Irish from adding to their lead. The Irish had 11 shots over the first ten minutes of the game but just the one goal to show for it. The Wolverines tied the score up moments later with Ryan Cohen burying one in the back of the net with 4:06 to play in the first quarter. The Wolverines then took the lead right after the media timeout off a goal from Michael Boehm. The Irish had a string of shots at the end of the first quarter, but Carr denied the Irish yet again to preserve the Wolverines’ lead at the end of the first quarter at 2-1. Head coach Kevin Corrigan discussed how he kept his team level-headed despite trailing after the first quarter of play. “We said forget about the score. Let’s concentrate on the play of the game because the play of the game is going our way. The score did not in that quarter. If we continue to play that way, it’s not going to be 2-1 every quarter. We just said don’t worry about the scoreboard,” Corrigan said. A penalty early in the second quarter on the Wolverines gave the Irish an advantage, and they finally found the back of the net to tie the game up at two apiece. The goal was scored by freshman attack Jeffrey Ricciardelli. The Irish capitalized a couple of minutes later with graduate student midfield Wheaton Jackoboice slinging a shot past Carr to give the Irish a 3-2 lead. Then, Notre Dame continued to pour it on with Chris Kavanagh scoring to give the Irish a 4-2 lead. The Irish then broke through again off the stick of sophomore attack Bryce Walker with just over five minutes to play in the second quarter. Jackoboice capped off the second quarter for the Irish, scoring on the team’s final possession to give the Irish a 6-2 lead at the break. The Wolverines generated some great opportunities in the second quarter, but Entenmann made seven saves over the course of the quarter to hold the Wolverines scoreless in the second. After the game, Corrigan discussed Entenmann’s play and the mindset he saw from Entenmann on the field on
Saturday. “He played really well. He was seeing the ball well,” Corrigan said. “He’s been feeling a lot of pressure. It’s a tough position because even if you do everything right, every goal that gets scored goes by you. And that can mess with a guy. Mentally that takes a lot to weather than when the team is not winning. I am really happy for him. He had a great day, but I am happy to that he was able to work his way out of this pressure and got himself in the right frame of mind.” On the first Irish possession of the half, graduate student midfielder David Lipka scored to give the Irish offense scored yet again to increase the lead to 7-2. The Wolverines were not about to go down without a fight, though, and they finally scored on their following possession. Entenmann was able to make two saves, but Aidan Mulholland found a way to sneak it past Entenmann and bring the score to 7-3. The Wolverines then tacked another one on minutes later to bring the score to 7-4. After the Wolverine goals, the Wolverines kept the pressure on the Irish, dominating possession and generating multiple shots on goals. Entenmann continued to play well, though, and the Irish finally got a good look on offense to score and increase the lead to 8-4. The goal was scored by Chris Kavanagh. The Irish came out of the gates firing in the fourth quarter with Eric Dobson scoring his second goal of the day to give the Irish a 9-4 lead with just under fourteen minutes to play. Chris Kavanagh then scored his third goal of the game moments later to give the Irish a 10-4 lead. Corrigan acknowledged how integral Chris and Pat Kavanagh are to the performance of his team. “[Chris] and Pat are starting to settle in. We are using a couple of other guys on the attack that I think have taken a little bit of pressure off them. Pat and Chris are both really good players, and we need them to make plays for us,” Corrigan said. Freshman attack Will Angrick and Walker tacked on goals over the next couple of minutes to give the Irish a comfortable 12-4 lead. The Wolverines scored two goals back-to-back off the sticks of Jacob Jackson and Michael Boehm to bring the score to 12-6 with just under nine minutes to play. Josh Zawada then scored for the Wolverines with six and a half minutes to play to bring the Wolverines closer at 12-7. The Wolverines had the momentum, but the Irish were able to slow down the game and keep possession to hold on for the 12-7 win. After a string of losses before this game, Corrigan was proud of his team’s performance on Saturday to get back into the win column. “You lose two or three in a row, and you think you need to make winning plays. The whole key to making winning plays is
to not think about winning. It’s thinking about making the right play in that moment. Wins and losses take care of themselves if you can stay focused on the moment,” Corrigan said. Josh Zawada of the Wolverines is the leading point-getter in the NCAA, but the defense was spectacular for the Irish on Saturday, holding Zawada of the Wolverines to just one goal. Corrigan praised the play of his defense. “I thought our defense played well today. [Goalie] Liam [Entenmann] did great, but they gave him a lot of shots that he likes to see. I was really pleased with their play,” Corrigan said. The Irish will travel to Charlottesville next weekend to take on the No. 2 Virginia Cavaliers to open ACC play.on the same page and that we are communicating to one another,” she said. “When we get into ourselves, it’s being organized and communicating to one another so that we can attack the cage collectively,” Halfpenny said. “I am really excited to build off of that against a really strong Yale team that is off to a hot start.” The Irish have had some frustrating losses this year, with four of their five losses being by two goals or less. Halfpenny believes that her team has learned from these losses and improved significantly because of the close losses. “The cliche goes that wins are wins and losses are learns,” Halfpenny said. “They’re only learns if you actually improve from them, and we really feel as though our team has got our wins and our learns. Our learns have translated into outstanding focus and on field leadership in our team with a determination to make adjustments and really focus on the growths areas of our game.” Halfpenny feels that her team has stressed these growth areas and learned a lot by playing difficult opponents. “Whether it was tightening up how we were coming off picks and screens, or if it was tightening our spacing, or tightening up our transition game,” Halfpenny said. “Whatever that was, playing at a high level and strong schedule both in and out of conference we feel has put us in a position where we really are battle tested. We understand how to respond to a multitude of situations now.” Halfpenny has been blown away with the approach her team has brought with them this season. “The season is a journey, and it’s been a journey of growth for this year’s team. I’ve been so impressed with the way they’ve approached that and how they’ve had a mindset of growth and a mindset of pride in their game,” Halfpenny said. Contact Nate Moller at nmoller2@nd.edu
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first Notre Dame player to accomplish the feat was Skylar DigginsSmith in 2012. “This year I’ve required her to do a lot,” Ivey said of her First-Team All-ACC point guard. “She’s had to take on carrying a team, carrying a program as a freshman, which is a very hard task. But I knew that she was capable of handling it.” The Sooners (25-8, 12-6 Big 12) have averaged over 83 points per game this season and are led by guards Taylor Robertson and Madi Williams, who both average over 17 points per game. Roberston has shot 45% from three this season, good for fifth in the nation. Ivey called Robertson, who leads the county with almost 3.7 3-pointers per game, “the best 3-point shooter in the country.” “We’ve never seen a shooter like Robertson, so we have a hard task,” she said. “And, also, Madi Williams, she can score a variety of ways. 13-seed IUPUI hung with
4-seed Oklahoma for the majority of its first NCAA Tournament appearance. The Jaguars cut the lead to four with 24 seconds to play before the Sooners iced the game from the free-throw line. Williams and Roberston led the way with 21- and 22-point performances Saturday night, respectively. The rest of the Sooners’ starters combined for just 16 points. Oklahoma would have a prolific guard trio of Ana Llanusa was still healthy. The redshirt senior guard was averaging 17.3 ppg before the Sooners lost her to a leg injury in early January. As it is, Ivey knows the Irish are in for a dogfight. “We’ll definitely come to stay true to our style and our brand of basketball, so we’re going to try to get out and run with OU tomorrow night,” she said. Whoever survives the matchup will play the winner of top-seed NC State and 9-seed Kansas State. In their only meeting with the No. 3 Wolfpack in early February, the Irish grabbed their best win of the season with a three-point home victory, Ivey’s first victory over a top-five opponent as Notre Dame
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continued to put runs on the board. The Cardinals scored one in the fifth, two in the sixth and in what turned out to be the backbreaker for the Irish, five in the seventh to take a 16-9 lead. Notre Dame fought back with two in the eight. But it wasn’t enough, as Louisville emerged from the slugfest with a 16-11 win.
Irish drop game two after late pitching collapse Game two of the series was a nearly polar opposite of Friday’s game. It featured a duel between two pitchers performing at an extremely high level. Notre Dame, looking to respond after the tough loss, had graduate student ace John Michael Bertrand on the mound, and he delivered an outstanding showing. Bertrand twirled six shutout innings before Louisville scratched one run across in the seventh. Despite the late run, he finished the day having given up just four hits across 6.1 innings. The Irish offense didn’t take advantage of Bertrand’s excellent outing. Louisville starter Jared Poland, excellent in his own right, shutout the Irish over seven innings. He yielded just three hits and struck out ten in seven scoreless innings. With Notre Dame trailing 1-0 heading into the eighth, Brannigan continued his strong weekend, hitting a 434-foot solo shot to centerfield and tying the score. In the bottom of the eighth, Louisville broke open the game with a massive inning. On the backs of a grand slam and a two-run home run, the Cardinals scored seven runs off three different Irish pitchers. Notre Dame could not respond in the ninth. With another lategame surge, Louisville clinched the series in a game that was
head coach. ACC Rookie of the Year Sonia Citron knows advancing past the Sooners in their backyard won’t be easy.
“But we just got to find a way to get our own energy, the freshman guard said, “And play how we play at home.” Tip-off is scheduled for 6 p.m. Paid Advertisement
Cardinals use clutch home run to seal sweep Louisville struck first in the final game of the series, using a wild pitch from Notre Dame graduate student Austin Temple to take a 1-0 lead in the first. Temple seemed to settle down after that and held the Cardinals hitless over the next four innings, which included striking out the side in a dominant fourth inning on the mound. Notre Dame used small ball to take the lead in the fourth. The Irish pushed two runs across on a walk, a single, an error, a fielder’s choice and a sacrifice fly. That 2-1 advantage would hold until the bottom of the sixth. After stifling the Louisville bats for five innings, Temple tired, giving up a pair of singles to start the sixth. Graduate student Ryan McLinskey replaced Temple mid-inning. After the pitching change, the Cardinals used a double to drive in both runners and scored one more on a single later in the inning to go up 4-2. Notre Dame rallied once more, despite the deficit. In the seventh, the Irish walked in a run and scored two more on a sacrifice fly and a clutch single from senior first baseman Carter Putz to take a 5-4 lead. As was the case all weekend, though, Notre Dame’s bullpen could not shut Louisville down late in the game. A critical twoout, three-run home run in the bottom of the eighth was enough to give Louisville a 7-5 victory and a sweep of the No. 1 Irish. Notre Dame will get a chance to regroup at home against Northwestern on Tuesday at 4 p.m. before taking on Virginia Tech in a home series this weekend. Contact Matthew Crow at mcrow@nd.edu
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Irish look to move past Sooners By GREG McKENNA Sports Writer
There were plenty of empty seats when Notre Dame downed UMass in Norman, Oklahoma, with an offensive blitz Saturday night in the first round of the NCAA Tournament. Most of those will likely be filled Monday night, and a majority of people packed in the Lloyd Noble Center won’t be rooting for Notre Dame when head coach Niele Ivey and her Irish take on hosts Oklahoma. “We have to play our style of basketball,” Ivey said Sunday. “But [also] have to just try to drown out the noise and just make sure that we’re locked in, even as far as the game, because it’s going to be a game of runs, and we have to make sure that we are locked in.” The Irish (23-8, 12-5 ACC) went 10-7 away from home this season, compared to 13-1 at Purcell Pavilion. “Fortunately, for being in the ACC, we’ve had many tough road opponents,” Ivey added, “and we’ve been in crazy environments at UConn, at Georgia Tech. So we are prepared for it, but, again, you have
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to sustain and try to take the crowd out of it with your performance.” The Irish might be to silence the Sooners’ fans if they can replicate their sizzling offensive display Saturday night in their 89-78 win over the Minutewomen. The Irish shot 57.6% from the field and over 41% from beyond the arc. Sophomore forward Maddy Westbeld, graduate student center Maya Dodson and senior guard Dara Mabrey combined for 55 points. Westbeld led Notre Dame with 19 points on 8-of-11 shooting from the field. Mabrey shot 5-of-8 from 3 and finished with 18 points to match Dodson. Reflecting Sunday, Westbeld was pleased the Irish were able to open the game on a 10-2 run. “We needed that,” she said. “We’ve been slow to come out the last couple of games. So that was great for us. And I think going forward we’re just going to keep the momentum going.” Olivia Miles became the second player to record multiple tripledoubles in her Irish career with 12 points, 11 assists and 11 rebounds against the Minutewomen. The see W BBALL PAGE 15
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Irish senior guard Cormac Ryan looks to pass during Notre Dame’s 89-87 First Four win over Rutgers on Wednesday in Dayton, Ohio.
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The No. 15/16 Notre Dame Fighting Irish beat the No. 17/19 Michigan Wolverines 12-7 this past weekend at Arlotta Stadium behind a career day from junior goalie Liam Entenmann, who finished the game with 19 saves. Freshman Chris Kavanagh led the Irish on offense with three goals and an assist. The Irish dominated for the majority of the first quarter, but they didn’t have much to show for it, scoring only one goal on 13 shots over the first fifteen minutes. The lone Irish goal in the first quarter was scored early with the Irish winning the drop to start the game. The Irish then possessed the ball for about a minute before an unassisted goal by sophomore midfielder Eric Dobson gave the Irish an early advantage. Michigan won the ensuing
The top-ranked Notre Dame baseball team had a disappointing weekend, dropping three games at the hands of ACC opponent Louisville. Notre Dame entered the series on a ten-game winning streak. However, bullpen struggles plagued the Irish throughout the weekend as they fell to 12-4 on the season and 2-3 in conference play.
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Notre Dame’s tournament run came to an end Sunday night at the hands of Texas Tech. The Irish, despite holding a threepoint lead with two minutes to go, couldn’t overcome the Red Raider’s stifling defense and fell 59-53 in the round of 32. “We hung in there. We had our chances,” head coach Mike Brey said. “But they made a few more plays. And they’re really gifted and they are a great defensive team.” The Irish had multiple chances to go ahead over the final two minutes, but two critical turnovers by freshman guard Blake Wesley allowed Texas Tech to close the game out and advance to the Sweet 16. “I know he had some tough ones, but I live with it because he’s our best creator, especially against those physical defensive guys,” Brey said of Wesley. He finished the contest with 11 points on 3-14 shooting, along with eight rebounds.
Louisville takes a highscoring opener
RYAN VIGILANTE | The Observer
Irish junior goalie Liam Entenmann saves a shot during Notre Dame’s 12-7 win over Michigan on Saturday in Arlotta Stadium.
Friday night’s series opener was a high-scoring affair, as both sides scored runs early and often. Notre Dame started strong at the plate. A pair of singles and senior designated hitter Jack Zyska’s fourth home run of the season gave the Irish 3-0 lead in the top of the first. That lead was quickly erased. After the Irish outburst, Louisville jumped all over Irish starting pitcher Aidan Tyrell for
five runs in their half of the inning. Most of the damage was done on a three-run home run. Tyrell would last only one inning before being replaced by senior Alex Rao. He became the first in a string of Notre Dame relievers unable to withstand the Cardinals’ offense. Junior third baseman Jack Brannigan singled home a run for Notre Dame in the top half of the third. Then, a Louisville error added another and tied the game at 5-5. Once again, though, the Cardinals had a quick response, scoring three runs in the third to reclaim the lead. The Notre Dame bats went to work again in the fifth. Brannigan and senior right fielder Brooks Coetzee hit backto-back singles that scored two. Following that, graduate student catcher David Lamanna crushed a gap shot double to score both and give the Irish a 9-8 lead. However, Louisville see BASEBALL PAGE 15