Sun Bowl

EL PASO, Texas — Lesson learned. A while ago, Harrison Smith was caught being a little too excited over his own success. All it took was being called out once for him to get the message. Friday, there were plenty of reasons for Notre Dame's 6-...

EL PASO, Texas _ Winning was nice. But the way Notre Dame beat Miami in Friday's Sun Bowl is what will serve the Irish program best down the road. Don't look at 33-17. The final score was barely indicative of the Irish dominance. Tune into 30-3, the...

EL PASO, Texas — Miami knew it. But there wasn't a darn thing the Hurricanes were able to do about it. That's when it's obvious that Michael Floyd is special. Miami's defense knew that the Notre Dame football team's offense revolved around the 6-...

Friday's Sun Bowl game between Notre Dame and Miami has the potential to be among the coldest in the 77 year history of the game.  Snow showers on Thursday dumped several inches of snow on the Sun Bowl turf.  At 11:30 AM MT, stadium crews with plows and...

EL PASO, Texas — Only one football team wanted to be here Friday. And it wasn't Miami. Notre Dame's 33-17 Sun Bowl rout of the Hurricanes left little doubt of the big-picture direction of the Irish program. Notre Dame's offense was effective. The...

SOUTH BEND — Eventually, Notre Dame's quarterback reality show will likely play out as the centerpiece of Irish spring football practice, as had been long anticipated. Tuesday, though, less then 24 hours before the Irish kick off with the first...

My husband and I are longtime University of Notre Dame football fans and we take an active interest in the team and its players. I thoroughly enjoyed reading Brian Castello's recent daily diary in the Sports section each day the team was in El Paso for...

SOUTH BEND - He high-fived Ben Hansbrough on national TV Monday night, presumably with enough care that he didn't tilt the sizzling shooting touch of the senior guard on the Notre Dame men's basketball team. Jack Swarbrick's job, though, still entails...

The best walk-on story in Notre Dame Football lore keeps getting better.  Senior kicker David Ruffer has earned a scholarship for his stellar play. Notre Dame head coach Brian Kelly confirmed the news Friday. Ruffer first entered the scene in 2009,...

It's national signing day, and 23 players have signed their national letters of intent to play football for Notre Dame. Notre Dame adds six defensive linemen, four defensive backs, four linebackers, three offensive linemen, two wide receivers, one...

Editor’s note: Former Notre Dame nose guard Ian Williams shares his thoughts on the 2011 NFL Draft, the process leading up to it and all things Notre Dame each week through the end of April. After I played my last game in the Sun Bowl on Dec. 31, I...

Emory Bellard, a former Texas A&M and Mississippi State football coach credited with developing the wishbone offense when he was an assistant at the University of Texas, died Thursday. He was 83. Bellard died at a care facility in Georgetown in central...