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By Jeffery Green | @Jeffery_AGreen Sports Capital Journalism Program ATLANTA – There was frustration throughout the dressing room. There was anger and sadness in their eyes. For the Fighting Irish of Notre Dame, there had been a month with an unprecedented series of celebrations from their campus to the Sugar Bowl to the Orange Bowl. …

By Jeffery Green | @Jeffery_Agreen Sports Capital Journalism Program ATLANTA – They were roommates once, multiple colleges and years ago, at a time when their dreams exceeded their credentials. Will Howard and Riley Leonard were paired at the Manning Passing Academy in 2023 and 2024, a connection between young quarterbacks formed a friendship that will …

By Jeffery Green | @Jeffery_Agreen Sports Capital Journalism Program ATLANTA – Near the start of Notre Dame’s Media Day appearance at the Georgia World Congress Center, a crowd was gathering in front of Jack Kiser’s podium. Not all of the listeners were members of the media. Defensive teammates swarmed around Kiser, who smiled as they …

By Cort Street | @cort_street Sports Capital Journalism MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. – On an everlasting night that had seemed unreachable in late summer, the Notre Dame Fighting Irish fans in Hard Rock Stadium shared in the ecstasy of a program that had anticipated this return to glory for so long — and had so consistently …

By Cort Street Sports Capital Journalism Program | @cort_street NEW ORLEANS – Decades of postseason disappointment had become synonymous with the Notre Dame Fighting Irish football program. Nearly a decade of championship culture was the identity of the Georgia Bulldogs. But under the lights of the Caesars Superdome in the College Football Playoff Quarterfinal at …