It's a code every New Jersey wise guy accepts. You can be brash, arrogant and even obnoxious and still be admired as long as you back it up. That's what Notre Dame athletic director Jack Swarbrick, in essence, told Charlie Weis when he announced Weis would be back for a fifth season but is guaranteed nothing beyond.
Josh Mayo made eight three-pointers and scored 30 points as UIC defeated Vanderbilt 74-55 on Wednesday night in Nashville, Tenn.
Top-ranked North Carolina was impressive in what it hopes will be the first of three games at Ford Field.
Neil Hayes: It has been a tough couple years for Notre Dame fans, perhaps the toughest in the program's storied history, and today's's announcement that Charlie Weis will be back for a fifth season didn't appear to greatly improve anybody's mood.
Notre Dame athletic director announced this morning that coach Charlie Weis will return to Notre Dame next season. Swarbrick met with Weis in California on Tuesday to review Notre Dames 6-6 season, which ended with five losses in seven games. Weis' career record is 28-21.
Illinois was looking for a chance to prove its unbeaten start was a harbinger of good things to come, and not a fluke. The Illini got that opportunity when Clemson came to Assembly Hall for an ACC/Big Ten Challenge game Tuesday night. But they weren't quite up to the challenge, falling to the Tigers 76-74.
The last 12 seconds of Loyola's cliffhanger Tuesday against William and Mary ''felt like an eternity,'' forward Darrin Williams said, with teammate Andy Polka missing two free throws with Loyola's lead at 64-61.
Several media outlets reported Tuesday that coach Charlie Weis will return to Notre Dame for a fifth year. Neither Notre Dame director of football media relations director Brian Hardin nor senior associate athletics director John Heisler were able to confirm the reports. Athletics director Jack Swarbrick attended a fund-raising function and was not in the office Tuesday.
Kyle Singler had 20 points and 12 rebounds, and No. 4 Duke beat No. 9 Purdue 76-60 on Tuesday night to remain unbeaten in the ACC/Big Ten Challenge in West Lafayette, Ind.
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. -- James Johnson scored 15 of his 21 points in the first half, and No. 15 Wake Forest routed Indiana 83-58 on Wednesday night.
Statement From Notre Dame Athletics Director Jack Swarbrick Concerning Football Program
Reports from various news outlets claim that Notre Dame athletics director Jack Swarbrick will announce sometime in the next 24 hours that Charlie Weis will return for another year.
The arrival of freshman twin towers Kyle Rowley and John Shurna could be the start of something good for Northwestern basketball.
Skeptics with questions about Illinois will get some answers when the Illini take on Clemson in the ACC/Big Ten Challenge tonight (6:30, ESPN2).
Trevon Hughes sank a leaning floater in the lane with nine-tenths of a second left, and Wisconsin survived a late rally by Virginia Tech to earn a 74-72 victory Monday in Blacksburg, Va., in the opening game of the ACC/Big Ten Challenge.
Analysis: Two days after the Irish were bludgeoned 38-3 by USC, it's time to unzip the body bag on Notre Dame's regular season and begin the autopsy. First-year athletic director Jack Swarbrick is scrubbing his hands in anticipation of overseeing the postmortem examination. Swarbrick is the wild card in this process.
Western Kentucky found a way to stop Samardo Samuels and No. 3 Louisville.
BERWICK, Pa. -- Fans of Penn State can smell like the school for just $60.
The game wasn't as competitive as the oddsmakers who made USC a 32-point favorite expected it to be. If the Trojans are the standard bearers, then Notre Dame remains light years away from joining its age-old rival atop the college football world after a 38-3 annihilation Saturday night at the Coliseum.
NEW YORK -- Oklahoma is ahead of Texas in the BCS standings and headed to the Big 12 championship game with an inside track to the national title.
SOUTH BEND, Ind. -- Kyle McAlarney scored 32 points and Ryan Ayers had a career-high 19 points to lead No. 8 Notre Dame to its school-record 39th straight home victory, beating Furman 93-61 on Sunday.
SOUTH PADRE ISLAND, Texas -- Just call them the refuse-to-lose gang. And call Mike Tisdale ''Mr. Clutch.''
A melee broke out about an hour before the game when Notre Dame and USC players began pushing and shoving as the Irish ran out of the tunnel for warmups. Coaches and officials eventually separated the teams. Notre Dame defensive end Pat Kuntz said USC players purposely blocked the entrance to the visitors' locker room. ''They were going to try to bully us, and we weren't going to stand for it,'' Kuntz said. ''We were going to fight back.'' ... Athletic director Jack Swarbrick said because he and coach Charlie Weis are on the road, they might not meet to discuss the season until a week from Monday. ... Wide receiver Robby Parris suffered a leg injury in practice and did not travel with the team. Parris' injury, coupled with the knee injury freshman Michael Floyd suffered against Navy, meant the Irish had only three scholarship receivers available -- Golden Tate, Duval Kamara and David Grimes. ... Kyle McCarthy became the first Notre Dame defensive back to record 100 tackles in a season. ... Running back Armando Allen left the game before halftime after suffering a leg injury and was on crutches afterward. ... Special-teams standout Mike Anello injured his right leg while making the tackle on Notre Dame's first punt. Although the severity of the injury was not immediately known, the former walk-on from Orland Park had a brace put on his leg and was carted off the field. ... Brandon Walker's 41-yard field goal with 11:45 left prevented Notre Dame from being shut out in back-to-back games against USC for the first time since 1932-33.
Notre Dame junior forward Luke Harangody is out indefinitely with pneumonia.
LOS ANGELES -- If this was the end for Charlie Weis, then the beginning of the end occurred in the heat and humidity of practice before the 2007 season.
LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. -- Marquis Gray scored 12 points to lead No. 5 Michigan State to a 65-57 win over Wichita State Sunday in the Old Spice Classic.
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. -- Glory Johnson tied a career high with 19 points and No. 9 Tennessee rolled to an 88-67 victory against DePaul on Sunday.
SOUTH BEND, Ind. -- When it comes to the signature team in college football, there's really little question.
Sylvester Croom came to Mississippi State with much fanfare, deemed by many a pioneer, the first black man hired to be head coach of a Southeastern Conference football team.
What if Bill Self had stayed? It's one of those intriguing but unanswerable questions of sports. What if Lou Brock had been in the Cubs' outfield in 1969? What if the Blackhawks had locked up Jeremy Roenick, Chris Chelios and Ed Belfour for the long haul?
DePaul freshman Jeremiah Kelly got an earful from coach Jerry Wainwright as the Blue Demons were trying to hold off a furious Indiana State rally in the closing two minutes Saturday.
New Hampshire capitalized on three Southern Illinois turnovers and a blocked-punt return for a touchdown to beat SIU 29-20 on Saturday in Carbondale, Ill., in the first round of the Football Championship Subdivision playoffs.
Jeremiah Masoli threw for 274 yards and three touchdowns, and Oregon all but crushed Oregon State's hopes of going to the Rose Bowl with a 65-38 victory in the annual Civil War rivalry game Saturday in Corvallis, Ore.
With 7-foot center Scott VanderMeer bossing the box, guard Josh Mayo and forward Tori Boyd found it easier to score during UIC's 77-67 victory Saturday night over Central Michigan at the Pavilion.
J.R. Blount and Darrin Williams combined for four free throws in the final 16 seconds as Loyola held on for a 58-53 victory Saturday over Holy Cross.
The outcome of Saturday night's Notre Dame-Southern California game was decided early. What remains in doubt is Charlie Weis' job security with the Fighting Irish. Mark Sanchez passed for 267 yards and two touchdowns, USC's hard-hitting defense thoroughly dominated Notre Dame, and the fifth-ranked Trojans rolled to a 38-3 victory over the Irish and their beleaguered coach.
Golden Tate has emerged as Notre Dame's most dynamic and consistent playmaker. The sophomore receiver is one of the few Irish players who will be the physical equal of his USC counterpart tonight. Tate also has developed an uncanny grasp of the obvious. ''Outside our locker room, I don't think many people think we can win,'' he said.
SOUTH PADRE ISLAND, Texas -- The Orange and Blue beat goes on.
Forward Dar Tucker scored 26 points and freshman guard Jeremiah Kelly added 11 as DePaul held off a late Indiana State rally to claim a 75-70 men's college basketball victory on Saturday.
Blake Griffin had 18 points, including the go-ahead free throws in overtime, and matched a career high with 21 rebounds to help No. 11 Oklahoma rally past No. 10 Purdue 87-82 on Friday in the championship of the NIT Season Tip-Off in New York.
TUSCALOOSA, Ala. -- A six-game Iron Bowl losing streak and the in-state rivalry make today's Alabama-Auburn game much more than a tuneup for No. 2 Florida and the Southeastern Conference championship game for the Tide.
LeSean McCoy scored his second touchdown with 52 seconds left to finish off a career-high 183-yard rushing performance, and host Pittsburgh beat rival West Virginia 19-15 on Friday to make Cincinnati the Big East champions.
Buzz Williams remained undefeated in his first season as Marquette coach after the No. 15 Golden Eagles rolled to an easy 73-43 victory over Northern Iowa on Saturday night at the Sears Centre in Hoffman Estates.
Neil Hayes: You could feel the angst in the room and the uncertainty everywhere. Normally confident people appeared less so during a strange and sometimes disorienting Thanksgiving week in and around Notre Dame's football complex.
Greivis Vasquez and Dave Neal each scored 17 points, and unranked Maryland hustled its way to an 80-62 upset of No. 5 Michigan State on Thursday night at the Old Spice Classic in Lake Buena Vista, Fla.
As they bask in the sun at South Padre Island, Texas, the Illini are giving thanks for many things. They include not only health and prosperity, but also the workmen who repaired the Convention Center after Hurricane Dolly tore its roof off in late July.
LAHAINA, Hawaii -- Kyle McAlarney's 39-point scoring explosion left an impression on North Carolina coach Roy Williams.
DePaul has adopted a ''premium'' ticket-pricing plan for individual men's basketball games against longtime rivals Notre Dame and Marquette at Allstate Arena.
SOUTH BEND, Ind. -- Jimmy Clausen must make big plays against USC's press defense if Notre Dame has any chance of winning -- or even keeping Saturday night's game at No. 5 USC (7 p.m., ESPN, 890-AM) competitive.
