Three area high schools join AP prep program

Three area high schools joined Indiana's Advanced Placement Training and Incentive Program, created to increase college- and career-readiness, administered by the University of Notre Dame.

Ex-Notre Dame QB Gunner Kiel headed to Cincinnati

COLUMBUS, Ind. | Former Notre Dame quarterback Gunner Kiel has found another landing spot -- Cincinnati.

Duke looking to pull off upset against Notre Dame

NORFOLK, Va. | The best phrase Duke coach Joanne P. McCallie to describe doing the unexpected is "the tingle."

Late lay-in lifts Irish over UConn for women's Big East tournament title

HARTFORD, Conn. | Skylar Diggins cut the final strand off the net and twirled it around. Finally, Notre Dame had its first Big East tournament championship.

Short Subject Success: Retirement brings new career for local playwright

Anthony "Joe" Seed still remembers the five years he worked as a journalist, including his span as a reporter at The Hammond Times in 1976, and some of the stories published that grabbed the interest of readers.

OFFBEAT: Ed Asner here for one-man show about FDR

Phil Potempa's daily entertainment news column.

No. 2 Notre Dame beats No. 22 Syracuse

SOUTH BEND | After second-ranked Notre Dame fell behind by 15 points early to No. 22 Syracuse, Skylar Diggins scored 21 points in the first half to get the Fighting Irish back in the game and then told Kayla McBride at halftime she was counting on her.

No. 25 Irish rout Cincinnati 62-41

SOUTH BEND | Notre Dame is hoping its stellar defense and rebounding can lead it to a Big East title.

REGION COLLEGIANS: Noll grad Tony Hollingsworth proving his worth at UIC

It didn’t take long for Tony Hollingsworth to break onto the scene at the University of Illinois-Chicago.

Te'o provides answers, but more may be asked

NEW YORK | Manti Te'o tried to put one of the strangest sports stories in memory behind him, insisting he was the target of an elaborate online hoax in which he fell for a fake woman created by pranksters, then admitting his own lies made the bizarre ordeal worse.

Former T.F. North, Notre Dame star Mirko Jurkovic dies after long battle with cancer

Even being well aware that he was in a fight he likely was going to lose, former T.F. North and Notre Dame football star Mirko Jurkovic stood toe-to-toe until the end.

No rest for Swarbrick as playoff talks continue

MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. | College football coaches typically have a brief 24-hour rule to either celebrate or commiserate about the outcome of an important game, then move on.

Hot temps, hotter prices in South Beach

Station 21 bartender Leah Jones pours a drink as people watch Notre Dame play Alabama on Monday night in the BCS Championship on television in the restaurant in Crown Point.

Hot temps, hotter prices in South Beach

People watch Notre Dame play Alabama in the BCS Championship on televisions at Station 21 in Crown Point.

Hot temps, hotter prices in South Beach

Mike Finnerty, right, reacts to a Notre Dame play Monday night while watching Notre Dame against Alabama in the BCS Championship at Station 21 in Crown Point.

Dr. Lou examines how Irish, Crimson Tide match up

The statistic — the one that proclaims Notre Dame's defense the stingiest in the country with its 10.3 points per-game average — makes a strong case standing on its own.

Irish set to battle Alabama for national championship

MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. | On the day before the biggest day of his football coaching life, Notre Dame’s Brian Kelly professionally navigated a press conference in which photographers jostled for position to take his picture in front of the national championship trophy, a cell phone provided a fe…

AL LESAR COLUMN: Can Kelly cap dream season?

MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. | Maybe this one really is too big to ponder the big picture.

Motta has shown gradual growth

Inside Zeke Motta’s helmet, scraggly facial hair has slowly formed into an unkempt beard. Each whisker has seen win after win accumulate in the Notre Dame 2012 season and formed a hair follicle fad.

Kiel OK waiting to ‘show what I have’

MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. | He impersonated Alabama quarterback AJ McCarron the past couple of weeks, rather convincingly according to his Notre Dame football teammates.