Notre Dame Fighting Irish are the principle athletic teams that represent the University of Notre Dame. They are known to take part in the 23 NCAA Division I sports that are intercollegiate. They are some of the best teams so you better not miss any of the action this year. If you want to watch the best college sports, this is it! Notre Dame tickets are available and in high demand. Get yours now to catch the action live.

The name Notre Dame Fighting Irish is inspired from the immigrant soldiers of Irish origins who took part in the Civil War as the Union’s Irish Brigade. The poet, Joyce Kilmer wrote about them in his poetry as he himself was one of the soldiers serving Irish Brigade regiment at the time of World War I. The University of Notre Dame took over the nickname of ‘Fighting Irish’ at the time between the Civil War and World War II as its 3rd President, Fr. William Corby, was also a chaplain of the Irish Brigade. The mascot used by Notre Dame Fighting Irish teams is a ‘leprechaun’ and their colors are Madonna Blue and Gold. They also have a fight song for their teams called "Notre Dame Victory March". Different teams have their own home arenas, such as football stadium is called the Notre Dame Stadium, the Edmund P. Joyce Center is for Basketball and the baseball stadium is the Frank Eck Stadium. For their other sports the Compton Family Center is used. Currently the athletic director of the sports teams is Jack Swarbrick.

Most of the Notre Dame Fighting Irish teams are a part of the Big East Conference except for Football, Men’s Hockey and Women’s and Men’s Fencing.  Its football team is Division I-A Independents and its Men’s Hockey team takes part in the Central Collegiate Hockey Association and Women’s and Men’s Fencing participates in the Midwest Fencing Conference.

Notre Dame Fighting Irish is known for having some of the best teams at collegiate level. In the year 2006 they were given the third spot on the Division I institutions  in the annually released Collegiate Power Rankings and were also on the 7th spot on the list of colleges providing the best academic as well as athletics training, all over America. The teams have won as many as 56 championships nationally especially through the earlier part of 2010. Ever since Notre Dame Fighting Irish joined the NCAA, it has had the record of winning 26 championships nationally, 18 of which were won by the male teams, 5 by female teams and 4 by collective teams.

Notre Dame Fighting Irish has one of the best football teams which has already been the winners of the NCAA football championship eleven times and has had as many as 800 wins over all. They have also been the winners of the Heisman Trophy seven times. It is also the only college football team in America to have a contract with the national television. Their other popular teams are the Men’s and Women’s Basketball and Lacrosse, Ice Hockey and Fencing. 

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