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Ok, I know most of you are really getting pumped up for this upcoming ND football season. Don't get me wrong, I am too. But before we forget, there is some preparation we all need to do prior to the 2006 kickoff. You've all probably made sure all weddings, funerals, class reunions and child births are all scheduled or rescheduled around the 12 gamedays this fall. Good...that's very good. You've learned well, grasshopper. However, don't forget about the most important thing. Taking the time and care to prepare your liver for the celebratory festivities during this exciting season.

With that being said, I'd like you all to take a break from all the hype and hoopla to prime the four lobes of your liver. (If you're a TRUE ND fan, you may be one of the mystical few that actually have grown a 5th lobe, specifically for those long pregame festivities before night games.)

On the very last free weekend you have to spend with your wife or girlfriend, take her out to dinner and a movie. More specifically, take her out to see the opening of what is sure to be an instant classic on the cable channel "AMC". Yes, that's right, opening August 25th is the one, ...the only, ...the absolute PERFECT movie ever conceived. From the makers of "Super Troopers" comes a movie entirely about the 5th and final food group, or what some of us have labeled "Liquid Bread". Yes, that's right, BEER.

Yes, "Beerfest". A movie about beer, drinking beer, competing with beer, beer science, women in beer costumes, beer...beer...beer. The only thing missing is beer being served in the movie theatres (although some are doing that now.)

So, before you start warming up your "W" hand gestures for gameday, and even before you start creatively practicing your "F bomb" skills that will be surely directed toward Mark May



and his baffling knowledge of college football. Be sure you at least go see this movie first.

Click the image below, or the image at the top to watch the movie trailer.

Back home to Indiana!

If you left the state of Indiana to play football on the collegiate level, and it was before the 2005 season, I bet you're smacking yourself in the head. Former Penn High School (Mishawaka, IN) academic all-state offensive lineman Thomas Bemenderfer was probably thinking the same thing this week as he transferred to the Irish from Northwestern. Northwestern is set to tackle a tough and emotional season after losing their head coach Randy Walker to a heart attack.

Bemenderfer is listed at 6-5, 280, and was Northwestern's top offensive line reserve in his first year. He'll have to sit out a year, and will have 3 years of eligibility remaining.

0-6...remember that!

Okay, so a new post since the post of the "Purple Emmy Winners". It was a scanned image, and I'm not sure why it's doing that, it looked fine before I posted it. So back to some college football news. First off, Lee Corso released his top 10 predictions for the college football season to a local newspaper. I guess he didn't learn much from last year.
http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/ncaa/article/
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Second, rolling off the tongue, Corso, Herbstreit, and Fowler are expanding their College Gameday coverage to a full 2 hours. So, Clutch, phone will ring at 9:55am on saturday throughout the fall, just a friendly heads up. What, were looking at a possible championship year, come on!

Third, Gary Gray, of some high school I don't know, decommitted from USC (no, not the girls from Southern California, South Carolina) after taking an unofficial visit to ND. Gray is listed by scout.com as the #6 rated CB in the country. He plans on taking an official visit to both campus' in the fall. He picked the Michigan game for his South Bend trip, so might as well call this one in the bag. I'm sorry, but even Steve Spurrier can't compete against that.
http://www.goupstate.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060716/PSPORTS02/60716004/-1/PSPORTS