Ron Powlus

SOUTH BEND -- Never underestimate the significance of presence. It's as important to the DNA of a quarterback as a quick release and the ability to elude. It tells everyone in the room, "I'm 'the man.'" It gives football coaches the confidence to hand...

Hope Mullery dreams of being a cheerleader for the University of Notre Dame. That’s not surprising. The fourth-grade student who lives in Danville, Pa., is one in a line of big-time Notre Dame fans, according to Joselle DeRemer, her mother....

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - Tim Brown’s Heisman Trophy had roughly 3½ years to accumulate dust by the time Theo Riddick came roaring into the world. The Notre Dame junior wide receiver and aspiring returnman admits he hasn’t seen much of Brown, a...

SOUTH BEND - Dee Dowis will be watching Saturday, he hopes, from the beginning. The former Air Force quarterback is coaching his 11-year-old son in a baseball tournament, which he hopes won’t cut into his tuning into his alma mater taking on...

Sophomore QB Andrew Hendrix made the most triumphant debut for a Notre Dame QB since Ron Powlus’ four-touchdown arrival in 1994. Before we go anointing Hendrix with two Heismans…let’s not forget he’s NOT the starter, and barring...

SOUTH BEND - If Brian Kelly has his own decided schematic advantage tucked away in the breast pocket of one of his perfectly pressed suits, this is the week to untuck and flaunt it. There doesn’t seem to be a mathematical possibility that could...

SOUTH BEND — What did Kevin Rogers see in Donovan McNabb 18 years ago that the rest of college football missed? Rogers, a former Notre Dame assistant (1999-2001), was the offensive coordinator at Syracuse in 1993 when McNabb was a senior at Mount...

SOUTH BEND - Brian Kelly kept his opening remarks about Saturday's University of Tulsa football matchup short and shocking. It took the first-year Notre Dame head football coach all of eight seconds Tuesday to launch into a favorable comparison between...

The mystique of Johnny Manziel has grown to the legendary status of Bigfoot or the chupacabra. He's the Paul Bunyan of college football, reaching almost an iconic status. His moniker — Johnny Football — even invokes an almost hero-like...

Longtime ESPN college football analyst Beano Cook passed away Wednesday night at the age of 81 in Pittsburgh, Pa. Cook spent 27 years working for ESPN as a college football commentator most recently working as a guest on ESPN Radio and their podcast on...

Charlie Weis completed his first coaching staff at Kansas on Thursday by hiring Wisconsin assistant DeMontie Cross to coach the linebackers. Cross spent last season coaching the Badgers' special teams and safeties. Before that, the former Missouri safety...

TV SPORTS Men's College Basketball-Cincinnati at Wright State, 6 p.m. (ESPN2); Florida International at Maryland, 6:30 p.m. (ESPN); USC-Upstate at Ohio State, 6:30 p.m. (Big 10 Network); Tennessee at College of Charleston, 8 p.m. (ESPN2) NHL Hockey-...