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New for Fighting Irish fans and friends of Notre Dame NOTRE DAME'S HAPPY RETURNS Dublin, the Experience, the Game Text by Brian Ó Conchubhair and Susan Mullen Guibert Photography by Matt Cashore $38.00 cloth s 184 pages Includes 174 color photographs "A beautifully illustrated and written book with a sharp eye on both Irish history and the massive importance of the Irish American link. It wonderfully captures the return of Notre Dame to their ancestral home for a never-to-be- forgotten clash with Navy. This book puts you right there." —NIALL O'DOWD, founder of IrishCentral.com and Irish America magazine Senior strong safety Javon Harris leads Oklahoma in interceptions (four) and ranks second in tackles (34). it's redshirt sophomore reserve QB Blake Bell who's enchanted OU Nation. In what has been dubbed the "Bell- dozer" package, the burly Bell (6-6, 254) is the Big 12's version of Tim Tebow, who watched former Florida starter Chris Leak march the Gators to the goal line before coming in to power into the end zone. On 31 carries this season, Bell has run for 59 yards and scored a team-high eight rush- ing touchdowns. "About midway through [last] year, they started bringing him in on first-and-goal from the 2, or fourth-and-one at midfield or whatever — basically short-yardage situations. He takes the snap in the shot- gun and just plows forward. It has worked almost every time they've tried it. He has scored 20 touchdowns in like the last 13 PHOTO COURTESY OKLAHOMA games [he now has 21 rushing scores in the last 14 games]. He led the team in rushing touchdowns last year [13] having only played in [seven] games. "When people started seeing that, they really got excited by him. That's one of the reasons they wanted Landry to go to the NFL. The coaches have all said [Bell's] a great passer, but we just haven't gotten to see him pass. Around here, truthfully, the backup quarterback is the most popular guy in the city of Norman." At the time, the loss to K-State was thought to be the big quake set off by a number of fall camp tremors. Returning senior starters on the offensive line Ben Habern and Tyler Evans were lost before the season started due to injury. Junior col- lege transfers at tackle and receiver didn't THE CHAPELS OF NOTRE DAME Text by Lawrence S. Cunningham Photography by Matt Cashore Notre Dame is a great gift idea for all Notre Dame alumni and friends. located throughout the University of Notre Dame's beloved campus, The Chapels of Includes over 200 color photographs $45.00 cloth s 176 pages Featuring over two hundred full-color photographs of the fifty-seven chapels UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME PRESS Available wherever books are sold or at: undpress.nd.edu s Tel. 800 / 621-2736 ✦ PAGE 2 Check out the book trailers on YouTube.

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