Mike Berardino

1 week ago | southbendtribune.com | Mike Berardino

SOUTH BEND —Six weeks before training camp opens on July 31, Notre Dame football coach Marcus Freeman used the P-word in a recent interview with Joel Klatt, lead football analyst for Fox and host of “Big Noon Conversations.”That word wasn’t “podcast.” It was “panicking,” as in precisely what Freeman hopes his team will avoid in the Aug. 31 season opener at Miami in prime time.  “I look at that big game and say, ‘OK, what do I need to do to prepare this team for that big one?’ “ Freeman said.

1 week ago | ndinsider.com | Mike Berardino

SOUTH BEND —Six weeks before training camp opens on July 31, Notre Dame football coach Marcus Freeman used the P-word in a recent interview with Joel Klatt, lead football analyst for Fox and host of “Big Noon Conversations.”That word wasn’t “podcast.” It was “panicking,” as in precisely what Freeman hopes his team will avoid in the Aug. 31 season opener at Miami in prime time.  “I look at that big game and say, ‘OK, what do I need to do to prepare this team for that big one?’ “ Freeman said.

1 week ago | indystar.com | Mike Berardino

SOUTH BEND —Six weeks before training camp opens on July 31, Notre Dame football coach Marcus Freeman used the P-word in a recent interview with Joel Klatt, lead football analyst for Fox and host of “Big Noon Conversations.”That word wasn’t “podcast.” It was “panicking,” as in precisely what Freeman hopes his team will avoid in the Aug. 31 season opener at Miami in prime time.  “I look at that big game and say, ‘OK, what do I need to do to prepare this team for that big one?’ “ Freeman said.

2 weeks ago | southbendtribune.com | Mike Berardino

LAPORTE ― NorthWood baseball's surprise run to the IHSAA 3A state semifinals ended Saturday night, June 14, with a 4-0 loss to top-ranked Andrean at Scheiber Field. The teams went a combined 1-for-19 with runners in scoring position, but a spate of ill-timed hiccups kept the upstart Panthers from reaching the first state final in program history. “I have to believe Andrean wasn’t expecting that kind of fight out of us,” NorthWood coach Zach Benko said.

2 weeks ago | southbendtribune.com | Mike Berardino

SOUTH BEND—For the second straight summer, Notre Dame football has lost a projected starter in the trenches to pectoral surgery. Defensive end Jordan Botelho, who missed the final 13 games last season with a torn patellar tendon in his right knee, recently underwent pectoral surgery, a source confirmed Friday afternoon. According to Irish Sports Daily, Botelho suffered the injury while training on his own. The sixth-year edge rusher from Honolulu is expected to miss about four months.