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By Eric Hansen

Wednesday, September 9, 2009

His days are longer, his patience sometimes shallower this season, but Notre Dame head football coach Charlie Weis never forgets a special player. Even in the midst of Weis' preparations for Saturday's date with arch-rival Michigan, it didn't escape him that former Irish All-America wide receiver Jeff Samardzija was recalled by the Chicago Cubs on Tuesday, marking the 24-year-old pitcher's sixth trip on the shuttle between Wrigley Field and Class AAA Iowa this season. Nor did the pitcher's s ...

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