The Fighting Irish football team took the week off to enjoy Easter. What top stories have come out of spring practice to date. Read on to find out.

Former Notre Dame head football coaches Dan Devine and Lou Holtz both won National Championships in their third year at the helm. Entering year three of the Brian Kelly regime, that's not going to happen. However, that's not to say Kelly isn't doing a good job.

The city of Indianapolis, the NFL and the Super Bowl Committee have been planning and preparing for Super Bowl XLVI for the past few years. The time for the events to unfold has arrived. Many will ask if all the work and transformations in downtown will take the focus off of "the game." As a football fan who loves the tradition of the game, I say, "Yes, it does." Some casual fans may disagree, but that is my view and here's why.

After the Andrew Luck sweepstakes ends, the next question will be – Where does Peyton Manning go? Here are five possibilities.

The Indianapolis Colts have a decision coming in the next few months that could make or break the future of the franchise. Will they turn their back on Peyton Manning, the face of their team, in order to draft the "best rookie prospect in decades?"

Ben Roethlisberger played this past Monday night, Dec. 19, 2011, with an obvious injury that hampered his ability. The Pittsburgh Steelers lost a critical game to the San Francisco 49ers due to Roethlisberger's inability to move around and make plays on his ankle.

With N’damukong Suh's suspension set to begin because of his Thanksgiving Day-game incident, is he really the league's dirtiest player, as he has been labeled?

It doesn't need to be retold here, but what's happening at Penn State is worse than anything that happens on any other college campus. The tragic thing about it is that it should have been stopped sooner.

With the excitement and furious pace to the start of the 2011 NFL season, many teams could not waste time filling in the gaps left by the lockout. Among the many story lines of this shortened offseason, one centers around the recent acquisitions of the New England Patriots. Curiously, the Patriots found themselves reeling with the infamous Chad Ocho Cinco, aka Chad Johnson. Can the Bill Belichick 's genius reach this far? Will Chad Johnson leave Ocho Cinco back in Cincinnati's? There's only a few ways to find out.

Under my Christmas tree I found the book Death to the BCS by Dan Wetzel, Josh Peter and Jeff Passan, all writers for Yahoo! Sports. The book is subtitled, "The Definitive Case against the Bowl Championship Series," which is a big promise to make about a subject so hotly debated for so many years. The following is a review of the book and, as usual, a contrarian point of view.