I recently received two e-mails from readers that I thought were worth passing along. First, Mblemieux provides a status report on the beginning of Drew Neitzel’s professional career in Germany: The Basketball Bundesliga began recently and Neitzel played in both of the Artland Dragons loses. Against Alba Berlin, Drew had nine points in 20 minutes. [...]
Posts Tagged ‘notre dame’
Reader Correspondence of a Random Nature
Posted in reader feedback, tagged bundesliga, drew neitzel, notre dame on October 5, 2008 | 5 Comments »
The Notre Dame passing attack: A play in three acts
Posted in game recap, tagged football, notre dame on September 20, 2008 | 19 Comments »
A lot of the headlines about this game will focus on Javon Ringer. And that’s cool. He was an absolute workhorse again today and racked up a second straight 200-yard game, this time against a BCS conference-quality foe (insert joke here about Notre Dame and the BCS, but they’re clearly a notch up from EMU). [...]
Letting the opposition do the heavy statistical lifting for us
Posted in links, tagged football, notre dame on September 20, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Rakes of Mallow has a phenomenal post up breaking down Michigan State’s tendencies and performance on first down through three games. Excerpt: Most impressive about these stats is the number of times Sparty rushed on first down for four yards or more. Almost 65% of the time MSU gained 4+ yards by carrying the rock [...]
Pregame reading
Posted in links, tagged football, notre dame on September 19, 2008 | 4 Comments »
A couple game previews from an Irish perspective: Blue Gray Sky fears Javon Ringer, Greg Jones, and Otis Wiley–but not the passing game or our cornerbacks. A reasonable take–although Hoyer’s really only had one shot to show what he can do with Dell and Cunningham (the Cal game). Rakes of Mallow says the key for [...]
Michigan State-Notre Dame Links and Discussion Thread
Posted in football discussion, links, tagged football, javon ringer, notre dame on September 18, 2008 | 2 Comments »
A few links from opposition territory: A defense of the indefensible: Charlie Weis (guest post at Rivalry, Esq.). Michigan’s miscues against the Irish set to a whimsical musical score (The House Rock Built). Attempting to debunk the idea that Michigan handed the game to Notre Dame (Kelly Green). There’s not much in the way of [...]
The Michigan State Ringers
Posted in football discussion, stats analysis, tagged football, javon ringer, notre dame on September 14, 2008 | 5 Comments »
In the early years of organized baseball, before team mascots became as formalized as they are today, teams would sometimes be referred to by the name (or nickname) of their star player. For example, the Cleveland “Naps” were named after future Hall-of-Famer Napoleon Lajoe. Based on the numbers below, perhaps the MSU football team should [...]
