http://www.irishcentral.com/topics/Coming+into+the+season IrishCentral Coming into the season en-us http://www.irishcentral.com/story/sport/inside-notre-dames-fighting-irish/fighting-irish-off-season-woes-keep-coming-159025995.html http://www.irishcentral.com/story/sport/inside-notre-dames-fighting-irish/fighting-irish-off-season-woes-keep-coming-159025995.html Thu, 14 Jun 2012 05:00:08 PDT Collingsworth will miss 2012 seasonAnd the hits keep coming people!The University of Notre Dame announced Wednesday that specials teams standout and defensive back Austin Collingsworth will miss between 4 to 6 months due after undergoing shoulder surgery to repair a torn labrum in his left shoulderCollingsworth, son of former Cincinnati Bengal wide receiver and current NBC play by play analyst Chris Collingsworth, sustained the injury at the annual Blue and Gold game last month and is expected to miss the 2012 seasonCollingsworth's injury further depletes a Notre Dame secondary that is deemed by many experts as the weakness on the entire football team The Fighting Irish are extremely thin after losing first round pick Harrison Smith, fifth round pick Robert Blanton and undrafted free agent Gary Gray to the NFL READ MORE ]]> http://www.irishcentral.com/story/sport/sports-central/oakland-raiders-v-new-england-patriots-preview-keys-to-the-nfl-matchup-week-4-130934293.html http://www.irishcentral.com/story/sport/sports-central/oakland-raiders-v-new-england-patriots-preview-keys-to-the-nfl-matchup-week-4-130934293.html Sun, 02 Oct 2011 06:40:19 PDT Coming into the season, nobody saw the New England Patriots losing to the Buffalo Bills While many will say that that was a once off blip on the team's route to the Super Bowl; the truth is the Oakland Raiders could pile on the misery this weekThe Patriots were missing a lot of players last week through injury and very little has changed this week Pat Chung is likely to return, but Leigh Bodden and Ras-I Dowling miss out in the secondary READ MORE ]]> http://www.irishcentral.com/story/sport/sports-central/new-nfl-kickoff-rules-can-be-taken-advantage-of-by-aggressive-teams-129261893.html http://www.irishcentral.com/story/sport/sports-central/new-nfl-kickoff-rules-can-be-taken-advantage-of-by-aggressive-teams-129261893.html Mon, 05 Sep 2011 10:40:18 PDT
The New England Patriots' released Brandon Tate this week who landed with the Cincinnati Bengals Tate likely lost his job as a direct result of the new kickoff rule in the NFL that littered the regular season with more touchbacks than returnsFor the coming season, all kickoffs will be taken from the 35 yard line while every runner has to be within five yards of the 35 yard line before starting their runThese new rules have obviously taken out a lot of the excitement for fans and one team has already shown their displeasure as the Chicago Bears kicked off from the 30 yard line in the preseason READ MORE ]]> http://www.irishcentral.com/story/roots/ireland_calling/irelands-unemployment-at-143-percent---where-are-the-entrepreneurs-128786983.html http://www.irishcentral.com/story/roots/ireland_calling/irelands-unemployment-at-143-percent---where-are-the-entrepreneurs-128786983.html Wed, 31 Aug 2011 06:35:03 PDT
Workers at Dublin's Google offices The most recent figure for those out of work in Ireland is for July this year, and it shows around 470,000 without a full time job When it's seasonally adjusted this comes back to 447,000 which equates to 143% of the workforceSo if you think President Obama has a problem with the "jobs crisis" in the U READ MORE ]]>