Tag: Geoffrey Clark

The experience of covering a baseball game at Fenway Park

It’s hard not to be excited about an opportunity like this.

BOSTON — Whenever I cover an event on location for this site, I try to keep that fact on the down low except for a single shot of my view. But with the opportunity to cover Notre Dame’s game against Boston College at Fenway Park, I simply can’t help but flex that a bit.

I took the main photo for this post myself, so you have an idea of what it looks like from my vantage point as I write this. Also, when your pass grants you field access to a historic venue like this, you take full advantage as I did:

I also had an ulterior motive behind this action. Two weeks ago, I learned that I was being inducted into my grammar school’s athletic association Hall of Fame for my social media and marketing work with that association.

The ceremony in which my induction would be celebrated conflicted with this game, so I had to miss my big moment. Making it more bittersweet is that the school is about to close after 111 years.

I felt it was only fair to reveal why I couldn’t make my induction, so I did:

That’s enough bragging though. I have a game to cover. Time to see if the Irish can close the regular season on a high note.

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Thank you Fighting Irish Wire family

A thank you to all of you loyal readers and the fantastic staff at Fighting Irish Wire.

Today is my one year anniversary with Fighting Irish Wire and I just wanted to thank all of you, the readers, for allowing this Buckeye to be part of the Notre Dame family. I also wanted to thank Patrick Sturgeon and Nick Shepkowski for bringing me in to be a part of this fantastic organization and my fellow contributors Geoffrey Clark and Jeff Feyerer.

Over the course of the last year, I have written almost 700 articles and you have read them over for more than 1 million views. I don’t do it for that at all, I do it for my love of college football, to bring you the latest news surrounding Notre Dame athletics.

So, I just wanted to again, thank you the readers for making my time with Fighting Irish Wire so enjoyable. I look forward to bringing you more of the best Notre Dame content out there.

Play (write) like a champion today.

-Michael Chen

Some Personal Thoughts as We Begin Celebrating Christmas

There’s no doubt about it: 2020 has been hard on all of us. Whether big or small, COVID-19 is a real presence in our lives.

There’s no doubt about it: 2020 has been hard on all of us. Whether big or small, COVID-19 is a real presence in our lives. Even with two vaccines slowly beginning to be rolled out, they’ve come too late to prevent many of us from spending Christmas away from our loved ones. It’s one more loss in a year that’s taken so many things away from us.

I was no exception to any of this. On Easter, I lost my 95-year-old grandmother, the wife of a proud Notre Dame alumnus whose ties to the university are why I embrace the gold and blue. Over the summer, the uncertainty caused by the virus led my fiancee and I to postpone our Nov. 7 wedding and our life together by a year, though that allowed me to cover an Irish upset of Clemson that ranks near the top of games in the program’s history. On Oct. 14, we had to mourn the sudden death of my fiancee’s father who, despite being an avowed Notre Dame hater and loyalist to Nick Saban and Alabama, gave me his blessing to propose to his daughter the year before.

But through all of that and much more, I had Fighting Irish Wire to come back to, and it’s a community I’ve been proud to be a part of. I want to thank Nick Shepkowski for bringing me aboard a year ago and running this site as smoothly and professionally as possible. I also want to thank Michael Chen and Jeff Feyerer for writing with such quality that I’ve been encouraged to raise my own game. Special thanks also goes to Patrick Sturgeon, our managing editor, for his leadership and always giving us guidance to make this a site with content to rival that of more prominent outlets in sports journalism.

Most of all, I want to thank the readers for coming back here, trusting us and spreading the word about us. You make it worth the time we spend to inform you of all things Notre Dame. We always wonder what it is we’ll write next that resonates with a lot of people. Because of you, we’ve had pieces make rounds all over the internet, and that gives us great pride and gratification.

Wherever you are, stay safe as we celebrate a holiday season none of us has experienced before. We want 2021 to be a year in which you continue to come back here. More importantly, we want it to be a year in which we’re able to keep doing things we love and get back at least some of what we had in 2019. Until then, Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays!

Notre Dame/South Florida Game Predictions

Can Notre Dame do something they’ve only done 12 times the last 30 years? We’ll find out Saturday

When Notre Dame welcomes South Florida to South Bend on Saturday the Irish will be looking to do something for the third year in a row but for what would be just the 12th time in the last 30 seasons.

That is start the year 2-0.

Under Brian Kelly, Notre Dame has done exactly that five of his ten years, including the last two seasons.  From 1990-2009 however the Irish did that just seven times in those 20 seasons under the watch of Charlie Weis, Tyrone Willingham, Bob Davie and Lou Holtz.

It’s not the most difficult of opponents coming to Notre Dame Stadium but then again, we said that in September of 2011 when South Florida visited, too.

So what happens this weekend?  Here’s what the staff at Fighting Irish Wire thinks headed into the game weekend:

First up Geoffrey Clark (1-0)

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