1993 Notre Dame football

1993 Notre Dame Football: Champions Uncrowned

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The 1993 Notre Dame football team was coming off a Top 5 finish in 1992, where the Irish finished 9-1-1 in the regular season and then blasted Texas A&M in the Cotton Bowl. Under the leadership of head coach Lou Holtz, Notre Dame had been to a major bowl game every year since 1987, won the national title in 1988 and finished #2 in 1989. Even though expectations weren’t high for 1993, that’s all relative and “low expectations” still meant a Top 10 preseason ranking.

1993 Sports: The Year Of The Walkoff

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This is part of a series of sports history articles aimed at preserving the best moments of the modern sports era, from 1976 to the present. The focus is team sports—college & pro basketball and football, major league baseball and hockey.
This article offers a snapshot of 1993 sports, one that might be called the year of the walkoff. The NBA Finals ended on a walkoff trey, and the World Series ended with a walkoff home run.

Windy City Run: 1993 Chicago Bulls, White Sox & Notre Dame Football

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1993 was a good sports year for Chicago in general and especially for the large elements of the Windy City fan base that root for Notre Dame football. Michael Jordan’s Bulls won their third straight NBA title, the White Sox won the AL West (this was the last year before realignment created a Central Division in each league) and Notre Dame rolled to an Orange Bowl victory and what should have been a national championship. We should probably even be more specific about where it was a good year for Chicago—you’d have to be on the South Side and in the Irish neighborhoods. The Notebook takes a look back on how the year unfolded.