Blue & Gold Illustrated: America's Foremost Authority on Notre Dame Football
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Under the Dome Getting To Know ��� Notre Dame Freshman Forward Zach Auguste Dorm: ���Keenan Hall.��� Major: ���I haven���t decided that yet.��� Favorite class: ���I���d probably have to say economics with professor [William] Leahy.��� Best movie you���ve seen lately: ���I would have to say the latest Batman.��� TV show you hate to miss: ������Real Husbands of Hollywood.������ Role model: ���Probably [former Boston Celtics forward/guard] Togo Palazii. He was a mentor to me and has been in my life since I was about 7.��� Favorite pro athlete: ���Michael Jordan.��� Best player you���ve gone up against: ���I���d have to say [Detroit Pistons center] Andre Drummond.��� If basketball didn���t exist, what would be your dream job? ���Have my own barber shop and cut hair.��� Dream vacation: ���Probably head down to Miami.��� If you had one last meal, what would it be? ���Everything from pasta to steak, or a buffet of Chinese food.��� Chris Zorich Faces Tax Charges Former Notre Dame All-American and 2007 executive director, Barbara Singer, contracted College Football Hall of Fame inductee Chris cancer and eventually died in 2008. The Tribune Zorich (1987-90) was charged reported in the summer of 2010 March 7 with misdemeanor fedthat there was no accounting or eral offenses for allegedly failing bank statement for the foundato file federal income taxes from tion���s unspent funds. Last year, 2006-09. Zorich signed a consent decree According to a report in the to pay back almost $350,000 Chicago Tribune, the charges in funds related to his charity. allege that Zorich, made more During the filing, Zorich denied than a combined $1 million in misusing any of the foundation���s gross income during those four funds. years but failed to file federal inZorich played seven years in come tax returns in any of them. the NFL, mainly with the Chicago The Tribune reported that Bears from 1991-96, and later Zorich authorized federal prosgraduated with a law degree ecutors to disclose that he is from Notre Dame, although he cooperating with the Internal never passed the bar. Zorich Revenue Service and will plead In 2008, he was hired by Notre guilty to the misdemeanor charges, per the U.S. Dame as its manager for student welfare and attorney���s office in Chicago. development, and later was also listed as manThe root of these problems appears to stem ager of youth programming and community back to a report in 2010 that the Chris Zorich outreach. He resigned from that post prior to Charitable Foundation was in disarray after its the end of 2010.