In less than 24 hours, Notre Dame picked up four oral commitments pushing the Irish's recruiting class for 2011, which includes Bishop Dwenger's Tony Springmann, to 16.

Justice Hayes, a running back from Grand Blanc (Mich.) High School, announced his oral commitment to Notre Dame at a news conference in is high school gym, according to multiple reports.

Jimmy Clausen and Golden Tate will not miss a minute of their first NFL training camps.

Sixth-round draft pick Eric Olsen has signed with the Denver Broncos.

The Notre Dame-Miami series will resuem with a neutral site game in Chicago’s Soldier Field on Oct. 6, 2012, and the Irish will play host to the Hurricanes on Oct. 8, 2016 and travel to south Florida on Nov. 25, 2017, according to multiple

Notre Dame basketball coach Mike Brey will wait to deal with the arrests of Tim Abromaitis and Eric Atkins on charges of underage drinking.

SOUTH BEND – Joe Montana’s son was one of the 11 Notre Dame athletes who were among 42 people arrested on misdemeanor charges of underage drinking at a party Friday night.

Mik Aoki was named Notre Dame’s baseball coach Tuesday, the university announced. He replaces Dave Schrage, who was fired June 14.

Notre Dame freshman safety Chris Badger, a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, applied for a two-year Mormon mission that would begin in August, a school spokesman confirmed Tuesday.

Notre Dame women's basketball coach Muffett McGraw was selected to the Women's Basketball Hall of Fame when the class of 2011 was announced during the WNBA All-Star Game in Uncasville, Conn.

SOUTH BEND – A former assistant to legendary Notre Dame football coach Ara Parseghian has died. Tom Pagna was 77.The university says Pagna died Tuesday at Memorial Hospital in South Bend. It didn't give the cause of death.