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Waking up Rudy's echoes

By Jeff Merron
Special to Page 2

Tuesday, November 26, 2002

Notre Dame football is back in the limelight, and the Irish are anxiously making New Year's bowl plans for the first time in years. With the big game at USC looming Saturday night, it's one of the last chances for this senior class has to add to the Fighting Irish legacy. This, inevitably, brings to mind "Rudy," the 1993 biopic about the ultimate underdog, Notre Dame walk-on Dan "Rudy" Ruettiger. The intro to the inspiring classic says the movie "is based on a true story." But scriptwriter Ang ...

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