As a player, coach, parent, student, alum or just plain fan, this is the best of times to be involved with the Trinity High School football program. Even with six – six! – KHSAA classes, the Shamrocks are in a class by themselves. They are well on their way to an unbeaten – no, make […]

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The National Football League was born in the 1920s, that giddy era when the prohibition of alcohol turned out to be the best thing to ever happen to organized crime. It was a time when movies and the radio shrunk the nation, when flappers danced the Black Bottom in speakeasies, and when baseball, college football, […]

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By the power invested in me by CatholicSportsNet.com, I hereby declare Texas Christian University to be the 2010 champion of major-college football. If they want it, the Horned Frogs will be sent the coveted Fehder Trophy, assuming our beloved boss can find something suitable at Wal-Mart.
I was more impressed with TCU’s 21-19 victory over Wisconsin […]

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I believe the Rev. John I. Jenkins, president of Notre Dame, when he says the university did not participate in a cover-up while investigating the suicide of a St. Mary’s College student who had claimed members of the football team fondled her breasts against her will.
I believe it because Notre Dame is one of the […]

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So now it’s clear that anybody who votes for Auburn’s Cam Newton for the Heisman Trophy is paying no attention whatsoever to the Heisman’s Trust stated definition for a Heisman winner: “The Heisman Memorial Trophy annually recognizes the outstanding college football player whose performance best exhibits the pursuit of excellence with integrity.”
It’s the last […]

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“We brought the fight back in the Fighting Irish.”
— Notre Dame coach Brian Kelly

For the first time in forever, the Notre Dame […]

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Ordinarily I am not much of a tourist when I go on the road. Oh, if some famous or historic place happens to get in my way, I will pause to take a look. Usually, though, I’m too preoccupied with what I have to do.
It was different when I made my first trip to cover […]

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If you believe, as I do, that the day is swiftly approaching when the BCS conferences will leave the NCAA to form a consortium of super-powers, then you have to wonder where that will leave the Big East, that unwieldy collection of 16 public and private universities who all have different opinions about football.
Eight Big […]

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At least we now know this much about Brian Kelly: He’s no Ara Parseghian. Not yet, anyhow. In 1964, his first season as the head coach at Notre Dame, Parseghian turned a team that had been 2-7 the previous year into one that lost only one game and almost won the national title. In that […]

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Most rivalries I can understand. Take Kentucky-Louisville, for example. It’s largely a rural vs. city thing, and each side has stereotypes of the other that they will trot out at the slightest provocation. Sometimes it’s fun, sometimes it’s ugly. But at least it’s fairly easy to comprehend.
But the St. Xavier-Trinity rivalry baffles me because so […]

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