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Under the Tarnished Dome

How Notre Dame Betrayed Its Ideals for Football Glory

Under the Tarnished Dome is the bestselling book that rocked the Notre Dame football program. Don Yaeger and Douglas S. Looney investigate the contrast between the Notre Dame image -- that of a place where wins on the field are no more important than the integrity of it -- and the Notre Dame football program's reality, with trash talking, rampant steroid use, pre-game fights and academic misconduct.

Part history and part investigative journalism -- the authors interviewed 150 people for this book, including nearly 100 former Notre Dame football players -- this is a stunning indictment of the school's administration and especially of present-day Notre Dame football coach Lou Holtz.

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