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Irish victory no sign of South Bend resurrection

By Pat Forde
ESPN.com

Saturday, September 13, 2008

SOUTH BEND, Ind. -- Notre Dame traditionally produces a new "spirit shirt" every season, and tens of thousands of them can be seen on campus every football Saturday. This year's version reads, in part: "Notre Dame will rise again." As resurrections go, this is not exactly a Lazarus production. There is little here to inspire reverence. The head coach is on crutches. The quarterback threw for 11 second-half yards Saturday. The longest running play of the season is 18 yards. The Fighting Iri ...

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