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Notre Dame Fighting Irish
University	University of Notre Dame
Conference(s)	Big East / Independent / CCHA
NCAA	Division 1
Athletics director	Jack Swarbrick
Location	Notre Dame, Indiana
Varsity teams	23
Football stadium	Notre Dame Stadium
Basketball arena	Edmund P. Joyce Center
Baseball stadium	Frank Eck Stadium
Other arenas	Compton Family Center
Mascot	Leprechaun
Nickname	Fighting Irish
Fight song	Notre Dame Victory March
Colors	Gold and Navy Blue
Homepage	Notre Dame Athletics

The Notre Dame Fighting Irish are the varsity sports teams of the University of Notre Dame. The Fighting Irish participate in 23 NCAA Division I intercollegiate sports. The Irish participate in the NCAA's Division I in all sports, with many teams competing in the Big East Conference. The school colors are blue and gold and the mascot is the Leprechaun.

Moniker[link]

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Just exactly where the moniker "Fighting Irish" came from is a matter of much debate and legend. One possibility is that the nickname is inherited from Irish immigrant soldiers who fought in the Civil War with the Union's Irish Brigade. Notre Dame's claim to the nickname would seem to come from the presence of Fr. William Corby, CSC, the third president of Notre Dame at the Battle of Gettysburg. Fr. Corby served as chaplain of the Irish Brigade and granted general absolution to the troops in the midst of the battle. This is commemorated in the painting "Absolution Under Fire," part of Notre Dame's permanent art collection. The athletes and teams at Notre Dame were known by many different unofficial nicknames throughout the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

During the Knute Rockne football era, Notre Dame had several unofficial nicknames, among them the "Rovers" and the "Ramblers". These names reflected the teams' propensity to travel the nation to play its football contests, long before such national travel became the collegiate norm. Later, Notre Dame was known unofficially as the "Terriers," after the Irish breed of the dog, and for some years, an Irish Terrier would be found on the ND football sidelines.

There are several other legends of how Notre Dame came to be the "Fighting Irish." One story suggests the moniker was born in 1899 during a game between Notre Dame and Northwestern. The Irish were leading 5-0 at halftime when the Wildcat fans began to chant, "Kill the Fighting Irish, kill the Fighting Irish," as the second half opened.^[1] Another tale has the nickname originating at halftime of the Notre Dame-Michigan game in 1909. With his team trailing, one Notre Dame player yelled to his teammates —who had names like Dolan, Kelly, Donnelly, Glynn, Duffy and Ryan— "What's the matter with you guys? You're all Irish and you're not fighting worth a lick." Notre Dame came back to win the game and the press, after overhearing the remark, reported the game as a victory for the "Fighting Irish."

The most generally accepted explanation by the University is that the press coined the nickname in the 1920s as a characterization of Notre Dame athletic teams, their never-say-die fighting spirit and the Irish qualities of grit, determination and tenacity. Notre Dame alumnus Francis Wallace popularized the Fighting Irish nickname in his New York Daily News columns in the 1920s with respect to the university. In 1927 Fr. Matthew Walsh, CSC adopted the nickname as the official moniker of the University's sports teams.^{[citation needed]}

Conference Affiliation[link]

Notre Dame is a member of the Big East Conference in all sports except for the following:

• Football, in which it maintains its status as one of a handful of Division I FBS Independents.
• Men's hockey competes in the Central Collegiate Hockey Association (CCHA). The CCHA will disband after the 2012–13 season due to a major realignment of hockey conferences. The Notre Dame team will join Hockey East effective in July 2013.
• Men's and women's fencing competes in the Midwest Fencing Conference.

According to men's basketball Coach Mike Brey, Notre Dame seriously considered joining the Big Ten Conference in 2003, with the decision to not proceed occurring at the "11th hour."^[2] Since 2008, the Big East's football coaches have pushed the conference to deliver an ultimatum to Notre Dame to either affiliate its football team with the Big East or leave the conference entirely, according to then-Connecticut head football coach Randy Edsall.^[3] Such an ultimatum is speculated by some to have the potential to "save" the Big East, as Notre Dame would likely join the Big Ten and perhaps satisfy that conference's desire for expansion;^[4] the Big East would likely be "all done" if the Big Ten were to pull two or more teams from it.^[3] Notre Dame athletic director Jack Swarbrick has stated, however, that the university will only join the Big Ten if the conference severely damages the Big East by pulling teams from it; "[i]n other words, if the Big Ten adds just a single member, it won't be Notre Dame."^[5]

National Championships[link]

Through the summer of 2010, Notre Dame has won 56 national championships since it started competing in athletics. Since the NCAA has formed, Notre Dame has recorded 26 national championships, 18 were won by men's teams, 5 by women's teams, and 4 by combined teams.

Notre Dame's championships occurred in the following sports:^[6]

• Football: 1924, 1929, 1930, 1943, 1946, 1947, 1949, 1966, 1973, 1977, 1988
• Fencing: (men's) 1977, 1978, 1986, (women's) 1987, (Combined) 1994, 2003, 2005, 2011
• Women's soccer: 1995, 2004, 2010
• Men's tennis: 1944, 1959
• Women's basketball: 2001
• Men's cross country: 1957
• Men's golf: 1944

Football[link]

• Head Coach: Brian Kelly
• Stadium: Notre Dame Stadium
• National Championships: 1 unanimous, 10 shared (1924 shared, 1929 shared, 1930 shared, 1943, 1946 shared, 1947 shared, 1949 shared, 1966 shared, 1973 shared, 1977 shared, 1988 shared)

Notre Dame Stadium

The school has a comprehensive and nationally competitive Division I athletic program, but it is most famous for its football program. Notre Dame fielded its first football team in 1887. With eleven NCAA football championships, over 800 all time wins, seven Heisman Trophy winners, famous head coaches, a 73.6% winning percentage and the most consensus All-Americans of any school, Notre Dame football is one of the most storied programs both on the gridiron and college athletics in general. Recently, Notre Dame has struggled, going through several head coaches and setting the all-time bowl losing streak of nine straight with the loss to LSU in the 2007 Sugar Bowl before beating Hawaii in the 2008 Hawaii Bowl. Notre Dame is also the only team, including professional ones, in the nation with every home game being on national broadcast television.

In addition to having the oldest university marching band in the country, the school has many rivalries in football, the most famous ones being with USC, Navy, Michigan State, Army, Purdue, and Michigan. Notre Dame played in arguably the greatest, although certainly not the most-watched (due to Notre Dame games' already having been broadcast nationally that season as many times as allowed, ABC had to relegate its broadcast to a regional one), college football game in history: the famous (or infamous) 10-10 tie against Michigan State at Spartan Stadium on November 19, 1966. Other Notre Dame rivalries include those with Stanford, Boston College and Pittsburgh. Former rivalries include a very intense rivalry in the 1980s with Miami (Catholics vs. Convicts), and a rivalry with Penn State, which was renewed and played on September 9, 2006, and again during the 2007 season. The football program is also known for ending the Oklahoma NCAA record winning streak of 47 games. The streak-ending game was a 7–0 victory for the Fighting Irish on November 9, 1957. Incidentally, Oklahoma's 28-21 loss to Notre Dame to open the 1953 season was the last loss before the beginning of the streak.

Basketball[link]

Men's[link]

• Head Coach: Mike Brey
• Arena: Purcell Pavilion at the Joyce Center
• Big East Titles: 1 (2000 West)
• National Championships: 2 (1927*, 1936*)
• Final Fours: 1 (1978)

* Pre-tournament era Helms Trophy

The men's basketball team, coached by Mike Brey since 2000, has made 28 NCAA Tournament appearances and made it to the Final Four in 1978 under its legendary coach Digger Phelps. They are also known for ending UCLA's 88-game winning streak in 1974, a streak which had begun after Notre Dame had previously ended UCLA's 45-game winning streak in 1971.

Women's[link]

• Head Coach: Muffet McGraw
• Arena: Purcell Pavilion at the Joyce Center
• Big East Titles: 2 (2001 and 2012 Regular Season)
• National Championships: 1 (2001)
• Final Fours: 4 (1997, 2001, 2011, 2012)

Notre Dame's women's basketball team, coached by Muffet McGraw, won the National Championship in 2001 by beating Purdue 68-66. The 2001 team was led by 6-foot-5 center Ruth Riley, who is still active in the WNBA. Notre Dame has made it to the Sweet Sixteen in 6 out of the last 11 seasons, and has had 20 win seasons in 13 out of the past 14 seasons. McGraw has led the Irish to 14 NCAA tournament appearances including a current streak of 12 straight. McGraw would take the Irish back to the Final Four in 2011, beating Pat Summitt's Tennessee Lady Volunteers; the program's first win against the Lady Vols in 21 tries. That win was followed by an upset of the number one-ranked UConn Huskies (making Notre Dame the first team ever to beat both Tennessee and UConn in the same tournament) to advance the Irish to the 2011 championship game.

Fencing[link]

The Notre Dame men's and women's fencing teams have won 8 national titles — the men's team won titles in 1977, 1978 and 1986 while the women's team won the 1987 title. After the NCAA replaced the individual men's and women's national titles with a combined fencing championship, Notre Dame won national titles in 1994, 2003, 2005 and 2011.

Ice hockey[link]

• Head Coach: Jeff Jackson
• Arena: Compton Family Ice Arena^[7] (Formerly at Joyce Center, 1968–2011)
• Conference Titles (CCHA): 2 (2007, 2009)
• Frozen Four Appearances: 2 (2008, 2011)

Notre Dame's men's ice hockey team, coached by Jeff Jackson and captained by T.J. Jindra, won both the Central Collegiate Hockey Association (CCHA) season and tournament championships in 2007 with a record of 28-6-3. They were the #2 overall seed in the 2007 NCAA Men's Hockey Tournament, behind Minnesota, and were the #1 seed in the Midwest bracket. They lost to Michigan State in the second round of the NCAA tournament.

Notre Dame was a #4 seed in the 2008 NCAA Tournament and faced #1 seed New Hampshire. They beat New Hampshire 7-3 and then faced Michigan State, the same team that knocked them out of the tournament last year. The Irish though defeated the Spartans this time 3-1 and earned their first trip in school history to the Frozen Four. In the semifinal they defeated the overall #1 seeded Michigan 5–4 in overtime earning them their first ever national championship berth against Boston College, in which they were defeated 4–1.

Lacrosse[link]

Men's[link]

• Head Coach: Kevin Corrigan
• Field: Arlotta Stadium, Loftus Sports Center
• Conference Titles (MLA): 8 (1982, 1984, 1986, 1988, 1990, 1992, 1993)
• Conference Titles (GWLL): 12 (1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2007, 2008, 2009)
• NCAA Tournament Appearances: 16 (1990, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011)
• Final Four Appearances: 2 (2001, 2010)

The Notre Dame men's lacrosse team — which began competing in the Big East men's lacrosse conference in 2010 — has made the NCAA lacrosse tournament 16 times in the history of the program, reaching the national semifinals (Final Four) in 2001 and 2010 and the national championship game in 2010, in which it lost to Duke by one goal in overtime, 6-5. In 2009, the Irish went undefeated in the regular season, reached #2 in national polls, and finished with an overall record of 15-1.

Women's[link]

The Notre Dame women's lacrosse team reached the NCAA semifinal round (Final Four) in 2006.

Soccer[link]

Women's[link]

• Head Coach: Randy Waldrum
• Field: Alumni Field
• Conference Titles (MCC)*: 4 (1991, 1992, 1993, 1994)
• Conference Titles (Big East): 10 (1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2005, 2006, 2008)
• National Championships: 3 (1995, 2004, 2010)
• College Cup Appearances: 17 (1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010)

*Notre Dame was a member of the Midwestern Collegiate Conference in soccer prior to joining the Big East in most sports.

Notre Dame's women's soccer team won the National Championship in 1995, 2004 and 2010 and were the runner-up in 1994, 1996, 1999, 2006, and 2008. Notre Dame is one of only three schools with multiple national titles, the others being North Carolina (20) and Portland (2). Notre Dame also ranks second in all-time title game appearances (8) behind North Carolina (22). ND's women's soccer program started in 1988 under coach Chris Petrucelli. Their 1995 Big East title was the university's first in any sport. That same year, Petrucelli's squad, under the leadership of Cindy Daws, won the program's first national title, defeating Portland 1–0. Notre Dame's current coach, Randy Waldrum, took over the program in 1999 and has maintained the Irish's success, winning the national title in 2004 by beating UCLA 4–3 as well as capturing six Big East titles. Waldrum's 2010 squad won the school's third national title, and became the lowest ranked team to do so, beating undefeated Stanford in a 1–0 decision. Three Notre Dame players have won the Hermann Trophy, given to the United States' best male and female collegiate soccer players. They are Cindy Daws (1996), Anne Makinen (2000) and Kerri Hanks (2006, 2008). Hanks is one of only four players to win the award twice. Notre Dame is also one of only two schools with three or more different Hermann Trophy recipients.^[8]

Notable non varsity sports[link]

Rugby[link]

Founded in 1961, the Notre Dame rugby club was one of the oldest college rugby clubs in the Midwest, before the club was disbanded in 1995.^[9] Notre Dame reinstated rugby in 2007, however, due in part to the "explosive growth of rugby in the nation's Catholic high schools" and Notre Dame's desire to offer a program to attract rugby-playing students.^[10] Notre Dame began the 2007-08 season in Division 2, but their 8-1-1 record merited a promotion to Division 1 in the spring of 2008.^[11]

The increasing popularity of rugby in the United States and the announcement that rugby would return to the Summer Olympics led Notre Dame to upgrade the designation of its rugby program from club to Olympic.^[12] Notre Dame now plays in the College Premier Division, and finished the 2010-11 season ranked 19th in the nation.^[13] Notre Dame's rugby program has the support and commitment of the school and alumni, with an endowment fund rumored to be over $1 million.^[14] The team is coached by Sean O'Leary, who has also coached the US U-17 national team. Notre Dame also plays every year in the Collegiate Rugby Championship (CRC). The CRC is the highest profile college rugby competition in the United States, broadcast live on NBC each year. Notre Dame finished 10th in the 2011 CRC, with wins over Boston College, Ohio State and Navy.

Other sports[link]

John A. Kromkowski, (BA '60)(MA '61)(Phd '72), won the National Intercollegiate Men's Singles Table Tennis championship in 1959 defeating Paul S. Kochanowski (BA `61) 3–0. Playing together Kromkowski and Kochanowski won the Men's Doubles championship that year and they won the "Teams".^[15]

Pageantry[link]

Team Colors: Blue and Gold

Outfitter: Adidas

Fight Song: Notre Dame Victory March

Alma mater: Notre Dame, Our Mother

Nicknames: Fighting Irish

Rivalries: Michigan Wolverines, USC Trojans, & Navy Midshipmen

Mascot: The Leprechaun

Marching Band: The Band of the Fighting Irish

Athletic directors[link]

References[link]

External links[link]

• Notre Dame Fighting Irish Official Athletic Website
• Notre Dame Fighting Irish Video on FoxSports.com
• College Football IA Independents Standings on ESPN.com

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Mick Boogie, born Mick Batsyke in Youngstown, Ohio, is an American DJ and mixtape composer.

Mick Boogie and grew up in Poland, Ohio. His interest in music began at an early age. He learned to play the piano and the drums through school programs. His hiphop career began when his mother purchased a turntable for him. In 1996, he enrolled in John Carroll University and has since earned his bachelor's and master's degrees in marketing from the university. While studying, Mick worked as a radio DJ for WJCU 88.7, and later two FM stations: Columbus' Power 107.5 and Cleveland's Z107.9.

His collaborations have included working with Jay-Z, Eminem and Mobb Deep,^[1] and his production credits include the 2007 Kidz in the Hall release, Detention.^[2]

For several seasons, Boogie was official DJ for the Cleveland Cavaliers basketball team.^[3][4]

Boogie's 2006 mixtape The Pre-Up, hosted by Eminem and The Alchemist (an early release of some tracks from Eminem Presents: the Re-Up), was cited by Rolling Stone as one of the top five hip hop mix CDs of the year.^[5] In 2007, Boogie worked with Little Brother on the mixtape And Justus for All.^[6] In 2008, Boogie collaborated with Talib Kweli on Talib Kweli & Mick Boogie Present: The MCEO Mixtape, which was distributed free on certain websites.^[7] May 2009 brought along yet another mixtape from Mick Boogie, entitled The Daytona 500 EP.^[8] Mick Boogie has presided over several critically acclaimed mash-ups, including Adele 1988 (which combines Adele's debut album with artists ranging from Naledge to Big Pooh)[1] and Viva La Hova,[2] which mashed up Jay-Z and Coldplay. In 2011, inspired by the A Tribe Called Quest documentary Beats, Rhymes, & Life, Mick Boogie released Excursions: A Tribe Called Quest mixtape. [3]

In 2012, inspired by the induction of the Beastie Boys' into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Mick released Grand Royal, a mixtape of rarities.

"In honor of the Beastie Boys being inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame last week… I thought it’s finally the right time to do a Beasties mixtape. It’s something I’ve wanted to do for a long time… something people have asked me to do for a long time, actually… but I wanted it to mean something. Now, it’s finally the right time. I present to you Grand Royal. 80 minutes of my favorite Beastie Boys rarities, remixes, demos, live versions, out-takes, and more. If you’re a Beasties fan, I guarantee you find something new and exciting on this mix!" (Mick Boogie 2012)

References[link]

http://mickboogie.com/2012/04/beastie-boys-grand-royal/

External links[link]

• Mick Boogie's Official Website
• Mick Boogie's Mixtape Discography at MixTapeKings.com
• Press Play: DJ Mick Boogie Interview with TheKoalition.com