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Notre Dame will face Army in 2024 Shamrock Series at Yankee Stadium

There are historical ties to this game.

This year will mark 100 years since the game that gave birth to the famed Four Horsemen moniker took place. This is cause for celebration, so why not do it during the annual Shamrock Series?

Notre Dame and Army, the teams involved in the Four Horsemen game, will face each other Nov. 23 in New York, the city where the game took place. The Shamrock Series is returning to Yankee Stadium for the third time, and it’s the third time the Irish will face the Knights in the annual off-site home game. These teams also met at Yankee Stadium in the 2010 game.

It would be surprising if the buildup for this game didn’t feature many references to the Four Horsemen. They played a big part in making Notre Dame the legendary program it’s been for much of its history. The least they can do is do those gentlemen homage as part of the hype machine.

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Wait – Notre Dame football is playing at Yankee Stadium in 2024?

Notre Dame headed back to the Bronx?

Sunday afternoon it was announced that Notre Dame will play in the Sun Bowl against Oregon State.  It’s the second trip to El Paso all-time for the Fighting Irish and it’ll be the third time they’ve ever taken on the Beavers.

The way Notre Dame wound up in the Sun Bowl is certainly interesting and worth sharing more.  However, there is also somewhat seemingly bigger news out of this that was also revealed Sunday.

It would appear that Notre Dame will be playing at Yankee Stadium towards the start of the 2024 season.

Sun Bowl executive director Bernie Olivas was doing an interview with Colin Deaver of KTSM-TV on Sunday, discussing how Notre Dame wound up in El Paso.  He also revealed the Yankee Stadium news.  Check it out below:

Now who is Notre Dame playing in the Bronx and when is that game taking place are the questions?

Notre Dame is set to open the season on Aug. 30 at Texas A&M before opening the home slate on Sept. 7 vs. Northern Illinois.

Oct. 5, Nov. 2, and Nov. 23 are currently Saturdays that remain open on Notre Dame’s 2024 schedule.  Stay tuned as this develops.

Related: Notre Dame’s entire 2024 schedule

Devastating Canadian wildfires made for an eerie scene at Yankee Stadium

A spooky haze descended upon Yankee Stadium as a result of the destructive Canadian wildfires.

Smoke from the devastating Canadian wildfires made its way to Yankee Stadium on Tuesday and caused quite the sinister scene.

As of Tuesday, more than 6.3 million Canadian acres have been burned in 2023, marking a horrific beginning to wildfire season. Eastern Canada, in particular, has been hit hard, with approximately 14,000 people forced to evacuate Quebec due to 150 fires in the area.

Thanks to the wind currents, wildfire smoke has made its way across the northeastern United States, causing hazy conditions and worse air quality from the midwest to as far south as South Carolina. As a result, when the New York Yankees lined up to play their Tuesday night game against the Chicago White Sox, cloudy skies and smoky-smelling air were reported in the region.

Yeah, that’s quite the eerie scene. Hopefully the wildfires can be contained in short order soon enough.

Here’s how Yankee Stadium looked as smoke from the devastating Canadian wildfires made its way across the region.

Baseball fans mocked the New York Yankees celebrating 100th anniversary of stadium that opened in 2009

This is not how anniversaries work

The New York Yankees opened the original Yankee Stadium on this date, April 18, in 1923. The club moved out of its iconic home in 2008.

There was video evidence of this and everything. It’s on MLB’s website. Mariano Rivera recorded the final outs, Frank Sinatara’s New York, New York blared over the speakers. It was a whole to-do.

In 2009, the Yankees began play at the brand new, $2.3 billion Yankee Stadium built one block from where the house that Ruth built stood.

It is now 2023. The Bronx Bombers have played in new Yankee Stadium for more than a decade. Which means they have not played at old Yankee Stadium in just as long.

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These facts are important because April 18, 2023 would’ve been the 100th anniversary of old Yankee Stadium. But that building no longer exists. There’s video of it being destroyed and everything.

So instead it’s just a random Tuesday in April where the Yankees host the Los Angeles Angels. But these are the Yankees we’re talking about, so of course they had to go over the top and make it seem like they can still say they’ve played at Yankee Stadium for 100 years.

It would be fair to say they’ve played 100 years at two homes which are both called Yankee Stadium. That’s about it.

Baseball fans were not letting this one go.

The 10 best stadiums to watch bowl games in, ranked

The best bowl locations for 2022.

It’s bowl season in college football — 42 (!) games that include those that will crown a national champion in the sport.

We’ve given you the 10 worst-named bowls (Mayo Bowl, ew) and edible stuff you can dump on winning coaches (mayo, ew).

Now? Let’s dive into the venues. Many of these games will be played at stadiums that host professional football… and some that are homes for baseball. So we decided to rank the 10 best for the season, in case you want to plan a last-minute trip to one of these venues to watch your favorite team play a … er, exhibition game.

Let’s dive in.

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Notre Dame football: Shamrock Series history

Which Shamrock Series game was the best one?

For the 11th time in program history Notre Dame is officially taking a home game to a road location as the [autotag]Shamrock Series[/autotag] is set to take place this Saturday night in Las Vegas as the Irish play “host” to BYU.  As you’re likely aware, Notre Dame has done extremely well all-time in these games going 10-0 to date with really only a couple even being competitive.

Saturday will feature a game against one of the better opponents Notre Dame will have played in this series however with the 3-1 Cougars.

Notre Dame has worn alternate uniforms for the game on nine occasions,  a tradition that wasn’t a part of things when the series began back in 2009.  Here is a quick look back at Notre Dame’s all-time showings in the Shamrock Series.

Rangers manager wrongly blamed Gleyber Torres’ walk-off HR on the Yankees’ ‘Little League ballpark’

It was a HR in 26 of 30 ballparks.

The New York Yankees took Game 1 of Sunday’s doubleheader with the Texas Rangers, 2-1, in dramatic fashion. And in the process, Rangers manager Chris Woodward managed to get himself crushed by Yankees fans.

It’s no secret across baseball that the right-field wall to Yankee Stadium is notoriously short. It’s been that way since the stadium opened, and left-handed betters absolutely feast on that short porch. It’s how Anthony Rizzo made history earlier this season with the least powerful three-homer game of the Statcast era. Everyone knows about it.

But in Gleyber Torres’ case, it was probably a bit unfair to dismiss his heroics as merely a gift from Yankee Stadium.

With the score tied in the bottom of the ninth, Torres took a 3-1 sinker the opposite way for a walk-off home run over that right-field wall. Now, I can understand the frustration about a ton of Yankee Stadium home runs. But Woodward probably should have at least looked at the measurements before calling Torres’ home run an “easy out in 99 percent of ballparks.”

Torres’ home run went 369 feet at 106.5 mph off the bat. It would have been a home run in 26 of the 30 MLB ballparks — not an out in 99 percent of ballparks. So, as much as Woodward didn’t want to blame John King for allowing the home run, his pitcher just has to execute better next time. It wasn’t the stadium’s fault. Both teams played there.

Just to be sure, though, Giancarlo Stanton hit a 461-foot home run in Game 2.

Yankees fans, of course, had plenty of “Little League park” jokes after those remarks.

Anthony Rizzo managed to pull off the least powerful 3-HR game thanks to Yankee Stadium

He’s loving the Little League field.

Home runs are down across all of baseball, but I don’t think we’re going to hear MLB home run leader Anthony Rizzo complain about that anytime soon. He seems to be enjoying the short porch to right field at Yankee Stadium just fine.

Rizzo hit three home runs in Tuesday’s 12-8 win over the Baltimore Orioles. And while a three-homer game is always noteworthy, Rizzo found a way to make some history in the process.

No player in the Statcast era has pulled off a three-homer game with a shorter average home run distance than what Rizzo had on Tuesday (350 feet). His first home run of the game was measured at 345 feet, and it would only have been a home run at … Yankee Stadium.

Conveniently for Rizzo, he *was* playing at Yankee Stadium.

His third home run of the game was especially hilarious as it barely creeped in beside the foul pole at 327 feet.

The Orioles broadcast practically had a meltdown over it. But hey, history is history — he’ll take it.

MLB fans had plenty of thoughts about Yankee Stadium — one of our worst-ranked ballparks — following the “historic” night for Rizzo .