Brian Kelly

Louis Nix sauntered up to the podium following the Blue-Gold game, a place usually reserved for head coach Brian Kelly and the Irish QB, a fact not lost on Lou. "Yeah, official quarterback spot", Nix joked.  "I made it." Nix's quarterbacking debut......

For a guy who comes across as a button-down football conservative, Bears general manager Phil Emery continues to take bold risks that defined his first year on the job. For such a humble man, Emery sure seems intent on proving he is the smartest guy in...

When a Notre Dame student videographer reported to work Oct. 27 on a day gusty enough for the National Weather Service to issue a wind advisory, he claimed video coordinator Tim Collins informed him practice would be outdoors "contrary to his judgment.''...

SOUTH BEND -- Taste the pie once, can't wait for the next bite. Even if it came with a bitter aftertaste. Sampling the BCS National Championship Game, despite the 42-14 thumping administered by Alabama, has fueled the Notre Dame football team's desire...

Idle thoughts while waiting for the dryer to finish off my favorite pair of jeans: - Should I feel a little bit guilty about wearing those jeans into a school for a reading program when all of the kids are in their uniforms? - Does anybody else...

When the Lions and their fans look at how dominating the Bears defense and its scheme has been, they have to think, "That should have been us." In 2006, Matt Millen hired Rod Marinelli as head coach of the Lions. Then in 2008, the Lions became the...

Eight weeks of an evolution process allowed the Notre Dame offense to forge an identity. Run the ball. Smashmouth. Rely on the line and enjoy the view. Full-speed ahead. When push came to shove — and it did an awful lot Saturday — the...

Memo to Notre Dame coach Brian Kelly: You lost. Alabama made your team look like Division II Grand Valley State in comparison during the BCS championship game Monday night that wasn't your finest hour or three of coaching. You panicked offensively after...

Turning heads Saturday night at Soldier Field was a dynamic former South Carolina star high school quarterback who reminded Notre Dame why it should think national title the way everybody used to when the Irish played Miami. Yeah, Tony Rice was there...

In death, as on the final day of his life, Declan Sullivan's voice again was ignored by those at Notre Dame entrusted to listen. On Page 39 of the university's so-called independent investigation into the scissors-lift accident Oct. 27 that killed the...

NORMAN, Okla. -- Legends often grow from games the stature of Saturday night's college football showdown at Memorial Stadium, so naturally Notre Dame tradition came to mind as the Irish took Owen Field against Oklahoma.   They were missing a gifted...

One of the texts Friday came from a Notre Dame colleague of coach Brian Kelly. "What the (heck) is he thinking? Thought he knew this place better,'' it read. Another message from a longtime athletic administrator with experience hiring and firing BCS-...