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  • Notre Dame’s 49-14 Victory Over Army Keeps Irish On Path For College Football Playoff Berth

    Notre Dame’s 49-14 Victory Over Army Keeps Irish On Path For College Football Playoff Berth

    After Notre Dame’s stunning home loss to Northern Illinois on Sept. 7, head coach Marcus Freeman didn’t mince words. He wasn’t about to hide his disgust.

    “This is as low as it gets,” he said.

    On Saturday night, 11 weeks later, that disappointing defeat seemed like a distance memory. In front of a pro-Notre Dame crowd at Yankee Stadium, the Fighting Irish defeated Army, 49-14, winning their ninth consecutive game. Notre Dame (10-1) handed Army (9-1) its first loss this year and snapped the Black Knights’ Football Bowl Subdivision-leading 13-game winning streak.

    Entering Saturday, Army was one of the feel-good stories of the season. Despite only having one transfer on its roster (a backup center) and forgoing Name, Image and Likeness deals, the Black Knights won their first nine games by an average of more than 23 points and achieved their highest ranking in the Associated Press poll since 1962. But they did so against the second-easiest schedule in FBS, according to ESPN. And on Saturday, there was a wide gulf between Army and Notre Dame, a team that is hitting its stride at the right time.

    With one regular season game remaining next Saturday at unranked USC, Notre Dame is in prime position to secure one of 12 berths in the College Football Playoff.

    The Fighting Irish are No. 6 in the CFP rankings and should move up a spot when the rankings are released on Tuesday because No. 5 Indiana lost earlier in the day at Ohio State. The Fighting Irish, one of three independent programs in FBS, aren’t eligible to receive a top-four seed and first round bye because those spots are reserved for conference champions. But they are hoping to get seeded from fifth through eighth, meaning they would host a first round game at Notre Dame Stadium on Dec. 20 or 21.

    It is a stunning reversal for a program that was reeling two months ago. After an impressive season-opening victory at Texas A&M, Notre Dame looked like a different team the next week, losing to Northern Illinois, a 28-point underdog. It was reminiscent of two years ago when Notre Dame lost to Marshall and Stanford at home in Freeman’s first season as head coach at any level.

    “It’s the entire program that underachieved today,” Freeman said after the Northern Illinois game.

    Perhaps that loss motivated the Fighting Irish to not overlook their opponents. Or maybe they are just living up to their potential. Whatever the case, they have for the most part been dominant.

    Since that Northern Illinois loss, the Fighting Irish have won their last nine games by an average of 32.6 points per game. Saturday’s victory was arguably the best of the season against an Army team that had only trailed for just over five minutes all season, when it fell behind North Texas, 3-0, two weeks ago. Notre Dame scored on its first possession against the Black Knights and never trailed the rest of the way.

    Quarterback Riley Leonard, a first-year transfer from Duke, completed 10 of 13 passes for 148 yards and two touchdowns and ran for 30 yards on eight carries. With the Fighting Irish ahead 35-7 late in the third quarter, backup Steve Angeli replaced Leonard, giving the senior some much-needed rest.

    Since throwing two interceptions in the Northern Illinois loss, Leonard has completed 66.5% of his passes for 14 touchdowns and one interception and run for 592 yards (6.7 yards per carry) and 12 touchdowns.

    Meanwhile, Jeremiyah Love ran for 130 yards and two touchdowns on just seven carries, including a 68-yard touchdown run on the first possession of the second half to give the Fighting Irish a 35-7 lead. Love has run for a touchdown in 11 consecutive games, tying a school record that has stood for 50 years.

    Jadarian Price added 53 rushing yards and two touchdowns, while true freshman Aneyas Williams had a 58-yard touchdown run in the fourth quarter.

    Before Saturday, Army had held its opponents to 82.6 rushing yards per game (3.2 yards per carry) and yielded just three rushing touchdowns. But the Fighting Irish had 273 rushing yards on 29 carries (9.4 yards per carry) and ran for five touchdowns.

    Notre Dame’s coaches have been judicious with their running backs, not giving anyone too much of a workload. Love has 850 yards on just 121 carries, while Leonard has rushed 112 times for 671 yards and Price has 77 carries for 540 yards.

    “Everybody in the running back room trusts in the plan that (running backs coach Deland McCullough) has for us,” Love said. “He’s a great coach. He’s going to do what’s best for us.”

    Love was asked how the offense has evolved since September.

    “I would say we’ve grown a lot in our mentality, man,” he said. “Everybody on the offensive side of the ball is really dogs, man. Coach Freeman calls us savages, man. That’s really what we are. We’re just continuing to grow every single week and get better.”

    Notre Dame’s defense has been just as impressive. In its first nine games, Army had an FBS-best 334.9 rushing yards per game (6.2 yards per carry) and 35 rushing touchdowns. But the Black Knights had only 207 rushing yards on 58 carries (3.6 yards per carry).

    Notre Dame’s defense entered the game allowing 11.4 points per game (third in FBS) and 277.1 yards per game (sixth in the nation) even though junior cornerback Benjamin Morrison, a potential first round pick in next year’s NFL draft, sustained a season-ending hip injury on Oct. 12 against Stanford. Defensive linemen Boubacar Traore and Jordan Botelho are out with season-ending injuries, too. And defensive tackle Howard Cross III missed his second consecutive game on Saturday.

    In recent years, Army at times has held its own against major programs. The Black Knights lost in overtime against then-No. 5 Oklahoma in 2018 and then-No. 7 Michigan a year later. Still, Army had no answers on Saturday against Notre Dame, which improved to 12-0 in the Shamrock Series, a tradition that began in 2009 in which the Fighting Irish play an opponent in a neutral field setting.

    “They are really athletic and extremely well-coached,” Army coach Jeff Monken said. “I mean, in every phase, they outclassed us.”

    With one more regular season game remaining, the Fighting Irish have proven to be among the nation’s best teams and have a chance to secure a likely first round CFP playoff game with a victory over USC next Saturday. Of course, a road game against a talented opponent like the Trojans is not a given win. Still, Notre Dame has shown since the Northern Illinois loss that it does not overlook opponents any longer.

    “We’ve improved, but what we’re starting to be is more consistent,” Freeman said. “That’s the sign of great teams, great businesses, great people, is the consistency…That’s what I think we’ve seen the past couple of weeks. We’ve had to improve. We had a lot to improve from that Northern Illinois performance, and we have been. Now you’ve seen a consistent football team, and we’ve got to continue to be that.”

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  • On Sports: Steelers’ path to AFC North title gets a little more challenging

    On Sports: Steelers’ path to AFC North title gets a little more challenging

    Today’s “On Sports” features a familiar face returning to the AFC North, a familiar face getting cheers at PPG Paints Arena and some recognition for the unbeaten Pitt Panthers football team.

    Remember him?

    Diontae Johnson has found his way back to the AFC North.

    The Carolina Panthers traded the former Pittsburgh Steelers’ wide receiver and a sixth-round pick in 2025 to Baltimore for a fifth-round pick in 2025 on Tuesday.

    Johnson, who has 30 catches for 357 yards and three touchdowns this season, spent five seasons with the Steelers after they drafted the former Toledo standout in the third round in 2019. While with the the Steelers, he totaled 391 receptions for 4,363 yards and 25 touchdowns.

    In March, the Steelers sent Johnson — their most tenured receiver — and a seventh-round pick to the Carolina for cornerback Donte Jackson and a sixth-round choice. Johnson is in the final year of a three-year, $35.18 million contract. He did not play in Sunday’s 28-14 loss to the Denver Broncos because of a rib injury.

    Johnson will be a welcomed addition to a dynamic Ravens offense that was looking for additional pass-catching help. As evidenced below.

    The Ravens have the NFL’s most productive offense, averaging 452.1 yards (first in NFL) and also 30.3 points (second NFL).

    QB Lamar Jackson has thrown for 2,099 yards (fifth) and RB Derrick Henry is the league’s leading rusher with 946 yards.

    Johnson will help complement WR Zay Flowers (41-527 yards), WR Rashod Bateman (22-422), TE Isaiah Likely (24-271) and TE Mark Andrews (22-263).

    Johnson’s addition does not solve the Ravens’ struggles in pass defense, however. That unit is last in the NFL and allows 291.4 yards per game.

    There’s also this intriguing storyline:

    Fleury gets his flowers

    It was a special night at PPG Paints Arena on Tuesday as former Penguins goalie Marc-Andre Fleury made what is expected to be his final appearance in Pittsburgh, helping the Minnesota Wild to a 5-3 victory.

    Fleury made 26 saves in the victory.

    He received a standing ovation and a visit from a couple former teammates after the game.

    The Penguins’ social media team highlighted several memorable moments throughout the day on X.

    Pregame “Flower” display:

    Fleury and friends:

    Rookie season:

    Bidding farewell:

    Honors at Pitt

    It’s midseason watch list … well, season … and it pays to be a member of the undefeated Pitt football team.

    Several Panthers are appearing on watch lists, though the real awards will have to wait until the season’s conclusion.

    • Quarterback Eli Holstein was named a candidate for the Davey O’Brien Award for national quarterback of the year.

    Holstein has completed 64% of his passes (138 of 215) for 1,808 yards and 17 touchdowns with five interceptions.

    He ranks 14th nationally in touchdown passes (17) and 20th in pass efficiency (156.3 rating).

    • Sophomore LB Kyle Louis was named to Chuck Bednarik Award Midseason Watch List on Tuesday. The award is presented to the defensive player of the year.

    He has accumulated 60 tackles, 8½ tackles for loss, three quarterback sacks, eight QB hurries, three interceptions (one returned for a TD) and a forced fumble.

    In Thursday’s 41-13 win over Syracuse, Louis had a 59-yard interception return for a touchdown.

    Among Pitt alumni, Defensive tackle Aaron Donald won the Chuck Bednarik Award in 2013, while defensive end Hugh Green (1980) and running back Tony Dorsett (1976) won the Maxwell Award (college player of the year).

    • Senior kicker Ben Sauls, was tabbed the Midseason Lou Groza Award Winner by Pro Football Focus on Tuesday.

    Sauls has converted all 12 of his field goal attempts and all 33 extra-point tries this season.

    PFF, a sports analytics site highlighted “who deserves all of college football’s major awards if the season ended today” in its midseason report. Sauls was the pick for college football’s top kicker.

    He has made 14 consecutive field goals dating to last season, eclipsing the 29-year-old school record set by Chris Ferencik in 1995.

    • Pitt sophomore linebacker Rasheem Biles was named ACC Linebacker of the Week for the first time for his effort against Syracuse. He had a 35-yard interception return for a touchdown and added a game-high 12 tackles, including a 15-yard sack, and two quarterback hurries.

    The 18th-ranked Panthers (7-0) play at No. 20 SMU at 8 p.m. Saturday.

    Bill Hartlep is the TribLive sports editor. A Pittsburgh native and Point Park graduate, he joined the Trib in 2004, covering high school sports. He held various editing roles before assuming his current position in 2019. He can be reached at bhartlep@triblive.com.



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  • The Path To General Counsel Of A Professional Sports Team

    The Path To General Counsel Of A Professional Sports Team

    The legal profession is a mixed bag. While many lawyers earn relatively high salaries, the job also comes with heavy workloads and considerable stress. The challenges of the job can be mitigated if one is fortunate enough to do legal work in an industry that interests them. Not surprisingly then, legal counsel for a professional sports team is a highly coveted role. But who gets those jobs?

    The Research

    In 2017, co-authors and I published an academic article analyzing the responsibilities, demographics and qualifications of the individuals holding the highest ranking in-house legal position (typically referred to as the General Counsel) at each of the teams in the NFL, MLB, NBA, and NHL, commonly referred to as the “Big Four.” That article was part of similar work analyzing General Managers in the NFL, MLB, and NBA, as well as Division I Athletic Directors.

    We recently updated our analysis of General Counsels, including by expanding the analysis to include MLS (Disclosure: From 2018-2021, I was General Counsel of D.C. United of MLS). We also explored the role of in-house counsel at WNBA and NWSL clubs. However, WNBA clubs generally either do not have in-house counsel or share counsel with an NBA club. Similarly, of the 12 NWSL teams that played in 2023, seven had no counsel and three shared counsel with an MLS affiliated club. Only the Washington Spirit and Kansas City Current had their own counsel.

    Our analysis looked at the General Counsels’ age, race/ethnicity, gender, law school, and various aspects of their prior experience.

    Age

    The most common age decile for General Counsels in the Big Four is 40-49, representing 34.5% of General Counsels in 2017 and 38.4% of General Counsels in 2023. Otherwise, General Counsels are just as likely to be over 60 (12.4% in 2023) as under 40 (12.5%).

    In contrast, no MLS club has a General Counsel over 60 and 30% of them are under 40. The variance between the Big Four and MLS is indicative of the differences in pay and prestige between MLS and the other leagues.

    Race/Ethnicity

    The number of non-white General Counsels in the Big Four increased from 16 in 2017 (14.2% of the total) to 26 in 2023 (22.5%). Notably, the NHL went from having zero Black General Counsels to five. At the same time, the number of white General Counsels has remained relatively steady at 97 in 2017 and 93 in 2023.

    MLS clubs have been more diverse in their hiring. Nine of the league’s 28 General Counsels are racial or ethnic minorities, including two Asian-American, four Black, and three Hispanic/Latino General Counsels.

    For comparison purposes, in 2023, the American Bar Association found that 79% of attorneys were white, 6% were Asian-American, 6% were Hispanic, 5% were Black, and 3% were multiracial.

    Gender

    The leagues’ diversity efforts are noticeable on the gender front as well. The number of female General Counsels in the Big Four increased from 21 in 2017 (18.5%) to 39 (32.5%). The leagues have roughly the same number of female General Counsels: NFL – 9; MLB – 10; NBA – 9; and NHL – 11.

    Yet, MLS once again has even better representation. Twelve of its 28 General Counsels (43%) are women.

    Law School

    While the value of law school rankings has been questioned in recent years, they still seem to carry weight in the legal industry. Indeed, the industry is notorious for its preference for graduates of highly-ranked law schools and the sports industry is no different. In 2017, 64.7% of General Counsels in the Big Four came from a top 50 ranked law school. In 2023, it was 59.7%. Moreover, in both years, approximately 28% of General Counsels came from top 10 law schools. Only about 15% of General Counsels graduated from law schools ranked lower than the top 100.

    Perhaps not surprisingly, Harvard Law School consistently leads the ranks, having had eight alumni as General Counsel in the Big Four in 2017 and nine in 2023. This result can largely be attributed to Professor Peter Carfagna, who organizes the sports law curriculum at Harvard for the specific purpose of preparing students to be in-house counsel at professional sports teams.

    MLS General Counsels are slightly less academically elite. Only 49% of their General Counsel come from top 50 schools, though 27% are still from the top 10.

    Law Firm Experience

    Experience at a law firm is generally a prerequisite to becoming a General Counsel for a professional sports team. In 2017, 88.5% of Big Four General Counsels had spent time in private practice and in 2023, it was 83.5%.

    The size of those law firms may matter also. In 2017, 42.7% of Big Four General Counsels had spent time at a law firm with at least 500 attorneys, which includes the most prestigious and powerful firms. In 2023, that number increased to 47.6%. In both years, only 14.5% of General Counsels had spent time at law firms with less than 26 lawyers.

    There are several law firms that regularly do work with sports leagues and teams and thus are excellent training grounds for future General Counsels. In 2023, 19 Big Four General Counsels spent time at Proskauer Rose LLP (6), Covington & Burling LLP (4), Latham & Watkins LLP (4), Foley & Lardner LLP (1), Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP (1), or Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP (1).

    General Counsels for MLS clubs tend to have similar experience levels at large and small law firms as their Big Four counterparts. Additionally, three MLS General Counsels worked at the aforementioned firms with robust sports law practices.

    Industry Experience

    As one would expect, experience as lower ranked counsel at either a sports team or league is helpful in becoming a General Counsel. In 2023, 32 Big Four General Counsels (26.7%) had spent time as counsel for a team before ascending to their current role. Seven had also spent time as a lawyer at a league, including some who later spent time with teams before becoming General Counsel of one.

    MLS clubs similarly pull from the ranks of other teams and leagues. Nine of its General Counsels spent time as counsel previously, including seven from a Big Four team. Moreover, six General Counsels in MLS spent time at a league office, with three of them having worked at the NFL. Indeed, the NFL’s Management Council is one of the most powerful legal organizations in sports.

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    The surest way to become General Counsel of a professional sports team is to graduate from Harvard Law School and then work at one of the few prestigious law firms that regularly does sports law work. Far easier said than done. The data nonetheless reveals that the position is available for those from less well trod paths, they may just have to work a little bit harder.

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  • Control the path and power of hurricanes like Helene? Forget it, scientists say

    Control the path and power of hurricanes like Helene? Forget it, scientists say

    Hurricanes are humanity’s reminder of the uncontrollable, chaotic power of Earth’s weather.

    Milton’s powerful push toward Florida just days after Helene devastated large parts of the Southeast likely has some in the region wondering if they are being targeted. In some corners of the Internet, Helene has already sparked conspiracy theories and disinformation suggesting the government somehow aimed the hurricane at Republican voters.

    Besides discounting common sense, such theories disregard weather history that shows the hurricanes are hitting many of the same areas they have for centuries. They also presume an ability for humans to quickly reshape the weather far beyond relatively puny efforts such as cloud seeding.

    “If meteorologists could stop hurricanes, we would stop hurricanes,” Kristen Corbosiero, a professor of atmospheric and environmental sciences at the University at Albany. “If we could control the weather, we would not want the kind of death and destruction that’s happened.”

    Here’s a look at what humans can and can’t do when it comes to weather:

    A fully developed hurricane releases heat energy that is the equivalent of a 10-megaton nuclear bomb every 20 minutes — more than all the energy used at a given time by humanity, according to National Hurricane Center tropical analysis chief Chris Landsea.

    And scientists are now finding many ways climate change is making hurricanes worse, with warmer oceans that add energy and more water in the warming atmosphere to fall as rain, said Chris Field, director of the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment.

    “The amount of energy a hurricane generates is insane,” said Colorado State University hurricane researcher Phil Klotzbach. It’s the height of human arrogance to think people have the power to change them, he said.

    But that hasn’t stopped people from trying, or at least thinking about trying.

    Jim Fleming of Colby College has studied historical efforts to control the weather and thinks humans have nowhere near the practical technology to get there. He described an attempt in 1947 in which General Electric partnered with the U.S. military to drop dry ice from Air Force jets into the path of a hurricane in an attempt to weaken it. It didn’t work.

    “The typical science goes like understanding, prediction and then possibly control,” Fleming said, noting that the atmosphere is far more powerful and complex than most proposals to control it. “It goes back into Greek mythology to think you can control the powers of the heavens, but also it’s a failed idea.”

    In the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s, the federal government briefly tried Project STORMFURY. The idea was to seed a hurricane to replace its eyewall with a larger one that would make the storm bigger in size but weaker in intensity. Tests were inconclusive and researchers realized if they made the storm larger, people who wouldn’t have been hurt by the storm would now be in danger, which is an ethical and liability problem, the project director once said.

    For decades, the National Hurricane Center and its parent agency, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, have been asked about nuclear-bombing a hurricane. But the bombs aren’t powerful enough, and it would add the problem of radioactive fallout, Corbosiero said.

    Bringing cooling icebergs or seeding or adding water-absorbing substances also are ideas that just don’t work, NOAA scientists said.

    Failed historical attempts to control hurricanes differ somewhat from some scientists’ futuristic ideas to combat climate change and extreme weather. That’s because instead of targeting individual weather events, modern geoengineers would operate on a larger scale — thinking about how to reverse the broad-scale damage humans have already done to the global climate by emitting greenhouse gases.

    Scientists in the field say one of the most promising ideas they see based on computer models is solar geoengineering. The method would involve lofting aerosol particles into the upper atmosphere to bounce a tiny bit of sunlight back into space, cooling the planet slightly.

    Supporters acknowledge the risks and challenges. But it also “might have quite large benefits, especially for the world’s poorest,” said David Keith, a professor at the University of Chicago and founding faculty director of the Climate Systems Engineering initiative.

    Two years ago, the largest society of scientists who work on climate issues, the American Geophysical Union, announced it was forming an ethics framework for “climate intervention.”

    Some scientists warn that tinkering with Earth’s atmosphere to fix climate change is likely to create cascading new problems. Pennsylvania State University climate scientist Michael Mann expressed worries on the ethics framework that just talking about guidelines will make the tinkering more likely to occur in the real world, something that could have harmful side effects.

    Field, of Stanford, agreed that the modeling strongly encourages that geoengineering could be effective, including at mitigating the worst threats of hurricanes, even if that’s decades away. But he emphasized that it’s just one piece of the best solution, which is to stop climate change by cutting greenhouse gas emissions.

    “Whatever else we do, that needs to be the core set of activities,” he said.

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