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The Best Game I've Ever Heard

12:18 PM ET 07.18

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When you think of Notre Dame, how often do you think of basketball? Well, having had one of my brothers be a full-time four-year manager for the Irish basketball team, my family typically thinks of basketball before football. During those four years, we would call the local South Bend radio station, be put on hold, hook our phone up to a speaker, and listen to the basketball game.Thus, we listened to a battle between Notre Dame and Georgetown not to be forgotten. For some reason, the Georgetown games were always the worst, by worst I mean best. In this particular case,…

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The Best Game I've Ever Watched Three Minutes of - GMU-UCONN

12:13 PM ET 07.18

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Truth be told, I only saw the last three minutes of this one.My parents and I had gone up to the Twin Cities to stay with my brother and his wife and watch the Regional Semifinals and Final of the NCAA. We witnessed Georgetown beating Villanova, Florida beating Boston College, and then the obvious Florida over Georgetown. But I remember little about those games, except being impressed by the big dude for Georgetown who was only a sophmore (Roy Hibbert).What I do remember first off was the drive home from the semifinal games. On the radio we listened to UCONN scrape out an…

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Second Best Game I've Ever Seen - ND-USC

12:00 PM ET 07.18

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Again, a story of my father and I, but this time, we were cheering for the same team.I eagerly anticipated the 2005 meeting between Notre Dame and USC all season, and talked it up to my friends all week prior. And all week prior I was ridiculed, and told it would be a blowout. But I knew differently, not this year.I started the day out at my best friend's house playing some video games, but when gametime came, I convinced him, not a huge sports guy, to turn of the video games and watch some real competition. As the Fighting Irish came out of the tunnel I started to…

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