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Volume 46, Issue 37 | wednesday, October 10, 2012 | ndsmcobserver.com
‘College GameDay’ returns to Notre Dame ESPN pregame show will come to campus this weekend for the first time since 2005 By ALLAN JOSEPH Editor-in-Chief
Almost exactly seven years ago to the day, ESPN’s popular pregame show “College GameDay” visited campus to broadcast live before Notre Dame hosted USC in the infamous “Bush Push” game. Today, after the fortunes of the Irish football program have fallen and risen again, the first of the approximately 50 cast and crew of “GameDay” begin arriving on campus from all over the country to prepare for Saturday’s national broadcast. “It’s great. It’s been way, way, way too long since we’ve been there,” ESPN analyst and announcer Kirk Herbstreit said. “It’s nice to see that they have a high-profile game at home to allow us to come in there and just add to the atmosphere hopefully there in South Bend on Saturday,” Tom Engle, producer of “GameDay,” said he and his
crew were excited to return to South Bend. “The tradition that Notre Dame has, not only with football but as a University, it’s a special place. Any time we get the opportunity to come back there is great,” Engle said in a phone interview with The Observer. “It’s too bad it’s been as long as it’s been since we’ve been there, but I think it’s a good sign for Notre Dame that we’re coming back. That means obviously they’re doing something well on the field.” Engle said ESPN makes its decision about where to host “GameDay” each week based solely on its opinion of what the biggest game of the week is. While ABC and ESPN (who are both owned by Disney) broadcast many games each week and NBC has exclusive rights to all Notre Dame home games, Engle said that did not matter. see GAMEDAY PAGE 5
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Brazilian band visits campus By LEILA GREEN News Writer
Fort y members of t he Bra zilian yout h band Meninos do Morumbi arrived on campus Tuesday to v isit t he Universit y and perform during t he ha lf time show on Saturday at t he Notre Dame-Stanford footba ll game. In English, Meninos do Morumbi means “K ids of Morumbi,” t he neighborhood in São Paulo, Bra zil, where t he band is based. The students w ill remain on campus until Sunday and are lodging at t he Sacred Heart Parish Center. According to t he Notre Dame Band website, in 2011, 66 members of t he Notre Dame Band toured Bra zil and performed for Meninos do Morumbi in Sao Paulo, t he countr y’s largest cit y and Dr. Ken Dye, director of
Belles volleyball rallies for cure By REBECCA O’NEIL News Writer
Photo courtesy of Meninos do Morumbi
Members of the youth band Meninos do Morumbi perform in Sao Paulo, Brazil. The band is visiting the Notre Dame campus this week.
bands, said he enjoyed t he v isit to Bra zil. “They were ver y gracious hosts and shared t heir exciting music w it h our band,” Dye said.
The band later inv ited t he yout h band to Notre Dame to perform and experience campus life. Dye said he see BAND PAGE 7
The Saint Mary’s volleyball team’s annual “Dig for the Cure” has evolved into something more aggressive — and more personal. The team will host the event, now titled “Crush for the Cure,” at 7 p.m. tonight in the Angela Athletic Facility to raise money for a Saint Mary’s alumna and lymphoma patient, Anne Blair Payne. Payne graduated in 2002 as an education major and was a member of Saint Mary’s basketball team for all four years of her time at Saint Mary’s. “She had just come back for a 10-year reunion this past June,” Julie Schroeder-Biek, Saint Mary’s athletic director said. “The next week I got a call that she went for a run and had severe chest pain.” Shortly thereafter, doctors found a large tumor in Payne’s
lung they believed to be lung cancer. They said there was little they could do. Even so, Payne’s brother told her she would “crush it” and triumph. After treatment, the tumor shrunk and the doctors discovered that the cancer was not in her lungs, but located in her lymph nodes. “It was a relief, relatively,” Schroeder-Biek said. None of the athletes present at Saint Mary’s during Payne’s career are still enrolled at Saint Mary’s, but Schroeder-Biek said she feels as if she’s watched the “Once a Belle, always a Belle” motto come to life. “The teammates she had then are here for her now,” SchroederBiek said. “They hold her hand during [chemotherapy] treatments. When she shaved her head, they were right there with see VOLLEYBALL PAGE 4
Ask and You Shall Receive DREAMCATCHERS PAGE 3
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