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Notre Dame Outdoes Super Bowl Shuffle

To: Fr. John Jenkins, C.S.C., President, University of Notre Dame From: John Walters, '88 Re: Ever Being Able to Wear ND Gear in Public Again Dear Fr. Jenkins, Hasn't the Class of 2010 suffered enough? Four straight losses to USC. Two home losses to Navy. The 3-9 season. A first-round NCAA tournament loss to Old...

Digger Phelps Is a Maniac on the Floor

I imagine ESPN college basketball analyst Jay Bilas prepares for a telecast by studiously reviewing his notes. Back in Bristol, Doug Gottlieb has people slap him in the face John Henderson-style. And Digger Phelps, after he picks out a tie and a matching highlighter, likes to dance. Via Buster Sports, Digger busts a move...

Izzo's Best Coaching Job: Quieting Critics

INDIANAPOLIS -- On his tippy toes, he might be 5-10, very easy to lose in the enormity of a football stadium where faces look like matrix dots and crowd noise drifts to the ozone. But no one strikes a larger pose in the Midwest today than Tom Izzo, public defender of the Big Ten's battered self-esteem. If trends and...

Dick Vitale, Digger Phelps, Jay Bilas Have Heated Argument Over St. Mary's

Say what you will for Dick Vitale, he's certainly passionate about college basketball. But does his passion get in the way of his ability to analyze the sport objectively? His colleagues Digger Phelps and Jay Bilas seemed to suggest so on ESPN Sunday night. Asked to name a team that didn't deserve its NCAA Tournament...

Digger Phelps Bumps, Grinds and Jives

Digger Phelps is one of ESPN's most colorful characters. I mean that literally, too. The guy matches his highlighters to his ties. Which, all ridiculousness aside, seems like it would be really difficult to manage in terms of a long-term dress code. Well, Digger only added to his colorful notoriety Saturday night, when he...

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05/24/12 Digger Phelps Source: CBS - WREG NewsChannel 3 - Memphis TN Our first guest today knows something about success.
05/22/12 PSA debate: "Some people are going to get killed" Source: CBS News (CBS News) The chief medical officer of the American Cancer Society Tuesday warned about the dangers of over-testing for prostate cancer.
05/15/12 Ex-ND coach, councilman get testy over watch plan Source: The Republic - Columbus IN Former Notre Dame basketball coach Digger Phelps got into a testy exchange with South Bend city council members after urging them to help create neighborhood watch teams to deal with a spike in youth violence.
05/10/12 Digger Phelps, community rally for Stop Youth Violence... Source: NBC - WNDU 16 - South Bend IN Former Irish coach Digger Phelps organized a town hall meeting Thursday to discuss his Stop Youth Violence campaign.
05/08/12 Police investigate to see if South Bend shootings are... Source: South Bend Tribune - South Bend IN When Digger Phelps hosts a town hall meeting Thursday at The Salvation Army 's Kroc Center to discuss solutions to youth violence in the city, he won't have to look far to illustrate recent examples of it.

Background on digger phelps

Richard "Digger" Phelps (born July 4, 1941) is a former American college basketball coach, most notably of the Notre Dame Fighting Irish men's basketball team from 1971 to 1991. Since 1993, he has served as an analyst on ESPN.

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