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Notre Dame's post-bowl injury report includes Manti Te'o and Tommy Rees.

Something clicked with Notre Dame's defense at the end of the season. Perhaps it was defensive coordinator Bob Diaco sequestering himself from the media and focusing on a solution. Maybe it was senior linebacker Brian Smith realizing his time was run...

Not since Notre Dame's national championship season in 1988 has the Fighting Irish defense hammered out such dominating performances in back-to-back weeks. The latest, a 27-3 drubbing of Army on Saturday at Yankee Stadium, pushed Notre Dame (6-5) int...

SOUTH BEND, Ind. -- Notre Dame linebacker Manti Te'o was named one of the 16 semifinalists for the 2010 Bednarik Award on Monday, which honors the nation's top defensive player. Read the entire story....

Notre Dame linebacker Manti Te'o was named one of the 16 semifinalists for the 2010 Bednarik Award on Monday.

What Notre Dame football coach Brian Kelly found particularly distressing after Saturday's 37-14 loss to Stanford was that the Irish were incapable of establishing the run early and unwilling to take advantage of drop-eight coverage later on. "We...

SOUTH BEND, Ind. -- Not since his first season as a Division-I head football coach in 2004 has Brian Kelly lost three consecutive games. Thanks to Notre Dame's glaring impotence Saturday against Stanford, Kelly's reliving his darkest days. It too...

SOUTH BEND, Ind. -- His team's full-blown identity crisis prompted Notre Dame coach Brian Kelly to hesitantly drag out an adjective that became a punch line during Charlie Weis' tenure. "Then, if you really look at it, what we've been talking abo...

SOUTH BEND, Ind. -- Three days after an eviscerating defeat in overtime at Michigan State, a moment of levity Tuesday provided insight as to how much Notre Dame's confidence has been shaken. With No. 16 Stanford's cross-country trek to South Bend...

SOUTH BEND, Ind. -- Anthony McDonald's tweaked right knee is more serious than he originally thought and the junior inside linebacker, who was battling for a starting role alongside Manti Te'o, won't be available for Notre Dame's Sept. 4 season opene...

A knee injury will keep Notre Dame linebacker Anthony McDonald out of the season opener vs. Purdue.

SOUTH BEND, Ind. -- The Notre Dame football team clocked in for its first fall practice on Saturday fully understanding first-year coach Brian Kelly's expectations. Unlike the system-shocking spring, the Fighting Irish appeared well prepared for...

Brian Kelly didn't waste time this spring breaking down his Notre Dame players in order to begin a challenging remodel in South Bend. The target of his first sledgehammer blow, well, that was the surprise. The first-year coach ripped into lineback...