Sun Bowl

EL PASO, Texas - Freshman Tommy Rees passed for 201 yards and two touchdowns to Michael Floyd as Notre Dame beat Miami 33-17 in the Sun Bowl on Friday, making Brian Kelly the first Fighting Irish coach to win a bowl game in his first season. After a 20-...

SOUTH BEND -- If Notre Dame had a football game this Saturday, the Irish might be looking for a fill-in at quarterback and at middle linebacker. As it stands, the knee sprains suffered by QB Tommy Rees and linebacker Manti Te’o in Friday’s...

SOUTH BEND - It turns out the final lingering image of Kyle Rudolph in a Notre Dame uniform will be the standout tight end campaigning to stay in a game after he had suffered a debilitating hamstring injury. Rudolph is taking his toughness and talent to...

EL PASO, Texas — They came. They refused to shiver. They hammered the Hurricanes. It's only a college football rivalry when both teams are competitive. That didn't happen Friday. It was supposed to be a battle between a couple of pit bulls. A...

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...