“We sent shockwaves throughout the league,” Irish nose tackle Howard Cross III said ... Mike Berardino covers Notre Dame football for the South Bend Tribune and NDInsider.com.

Storied programs collide when Ohio State and Notre Dame meet for the national championship. Aside from the bigger historical picture of this ... traveled to South Bend and escaped with a win ...

Cross is the elder statesman of the Bergen-based trio, a Notre Dame grad student with senior ... too long since that trophy has come back to South Bend,” said Angeli, a junior who grew up ...

We sent shockwaves,” senior defensive tackle Howard Cross III said. “Before this, it was what we can’t do. Now, I really feel like after this year it’s really like, what Notre Dame can do.

South Bend resident Chuck Sweeney was referee of 1958 NFL title game, known as "The Greatest Game Ever Played." Sweeney had played football for Notre Dame under coach Elmer Layden, who became NFL ...

You could just as easily throw Cross ... Notre Dame is once again facing turnover as a big-name transfer moves on. Both Leonard and Sam Hartman turned out to be success stories in South Bend ...

And there’s enough cross-pollination between ... Ohio State tight ends coach Keenan Bailey is a Notre Dame graduate and former football staffer in South Bend. It’s all enough to see the ...

ATLANTA -- Rocco Spindler still remembers the feeling that permeated the air in South Bend, Indiana, during late November in 2021. The Notre Dame offensive lineman -- then a freshman -- and his ...

AND HE COULD JUST BE NOTRE DAME’S LUCKY CHARM ... HIS TRAVELS HAVE TAKEN HIM FROM SOUTH BEND, INDIANA TO COLLEGE STATION TO THE COLLEGE FOOTBALL PLAYOFF, EVEN TO THE SET OF COLLEGE GAMEDAY ...

Once Leonard finally left the celebratory confines, what he found inside the tunnel was a crowd of Notre Dame fans giving ... are confident," Cross, who has been in South Bend since 2019, said.

There is a ton of talent heading towards the NFL draft from Notre Dame's roster ... Golden Domers to fall off the draft board out of South Bend. Benjamin Morrison was almost a consensus top ...