These are bleak times for Notre Dame football. Connecticut beat the Not-So-Fighting Irish Saturday, adding to their epic 2009 failure.

While this doomed team plays out the string, the national media is speculating on potential candidates to replace the Dead Coach…

Well, that was an interesting Sunday of NFL football.

A relative handful of people saw the league’s most entertaining game, the Lions’ dramatic 38-37 victory over the Browns. The game was blacked out in Detroit and shielded from most of the nation…

Once the Rams knocked Arizona quarterback Kurt Warner out of Sunday’s game, they had a fighting chance against the Cardinals.

Down 21-3 at the half, the Rams cut the Arizona lead to 21-13 with Warner sidelined. The Rams got back into…

Larry Fitzgerald went up and made an all-pro catch to move the Cardinals to the Rams 44 early in the quarter.

Then old friend Anthony Becht, now a tight end for the Cardinals, was stripped of a reception by David Vobora.…

The second half started with more frustration for the Rams. On his first third-down passing attempt, Bulger threw short to Donnie Avery — who dropped the pass.

Had he caught it, though, he would have been well short of the first…

Kurt Warner got Arizona rolling again with a 14-yard completion on Larry Fitzgerald to convert a third-and-2 play. The Beanie Wells got loose off last tackle for a 16-yard gain.

Tim Hightower ripped off 11 more. Then Warner went over the…

Quarterback Kurt Warner wasted no time getting the Cardinals rolling. He scrambled out of the pocket and hit running back Tim Hightower for a 7-yard gain. Another 7-yard pass, to Anquan Boldin, earned the Cards their initial first down.

Then Arizona…

At least this should be an entertaining game. The Rams will try to burn clock with Steven Jackson pounding the ball on the ground, but Kurt Warner and Co. can score all day with that passing attack.

The only Rams shot…

Cardinal Nation isn’t too happy about the outcome of the National League Cy Young Award voting, for obvious reasons.

Numbers crunchers Keith Law and Will Carroll left Chris Carpenter off their ballots, opting for Javier Vazquez and Danny Haren instead. This vaulted Tim…

ESPN.com’s Keith Law voted Tim Lincecum No. 1, Javier Vazquez No. 2 and Adam Wainwright No. 3.

He explained his thoughts on ESPN.com. He are snippets of that:

:Law noted that Lincecum led by wide margins the NL in FIP (Fielding Independent…