The Raiders, 4-13 this season, are desperate for a quarterback and intend to be competitive as soon as they can.

Theismann played at Notre Dame during the Ara Parseghian era and although its been a half-century since he wore the famed gold helmet, he still keeps a close tab on the Fighting Irish football team.

In college football, games and legacies can be decided by a matter of inches. Throughout much of college football history, ...

The Observer revisits Notre Dame’s 1973, 1977 and 1988 championships, highlighting parallels to the team’s 2024 title pursuit.

Notre Dame has been treated to more consensus national championships (11) than any other school, spanning three Knute Rockne squads (1924, ’29, ’30), Frank Leahy’s dynasty (’43, ’46, ’47, ’49), Ara ...

Various coaches have taken the Irish to that mountaintop, including greats such as Knute Rockne, Frank Leahy, Ara Parseghian, Devine and Holtz. Freeman is looking to join that prestigious group.

The year was 1964, and the Fighting Irish, after struggling for about a decade in the wake of coach Frank Leahy’s departure, were coming back to life under the direction of an eager outsider — a ...

Akron's Ara Parseghian won two national championships. Decades after watching his school win the 1973 national championship while he was a Notre Dame student, Dave Kaminski still calls the ...

Ara Parseghian, Dan Devine, and Lou Holtz — to win a national championship in their third year. He'd also be he first Black coach to win a college football national championship. As noted by USA ...

were coming back to life under the direction of an eager outsider -- a Protestant of Armenian descent named Ara Parseghian -- who had toppled Notre Dame four consecutive years while he was ...

While Leahy was the first coach to earn a title in his third season, Ara Parseghian really was the one to start the trend when he became the second Notre Dame head coach to follow that career path.