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The Shamrock: A show about the Notre Dame Fighting Irish

Special Guest: Tom Rinaldi

The Shamrock: A show about the Notre Dame Fighting Irish

The Athletic

Sports News, Sports, News, Football

4.8524 Ratings

🗓️ 15 April 2020

⏱️ 43 minutes

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The Athletic's Pete Sampson & Matt Fortuna welcome ESPN's Tom Rinaldi to The Shamrock. Tom talks about starting his career in South Bend, his relationship with Brian Kelly, memories from Notre Dame in the 90's and what it will be like covering The Masters in November. Subscribe to The Athletic for 40% off your first year: www.theathletic.com/theshamrock

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0:00.0

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0:08.9

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0:15.6

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0:19.0

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0:22.6

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0:42.3

I'm Pete Sampson and welcome to the latest episode of The Shamrock.

0:46.5

I'll be joined by a minute by my co-host Matt Fortuna and our special guest from ESPN.

0:48.7

You've seen his work on college game day.

0:50.3

You've seen his work at the Masters.

0:52.3

Tom Rinaldi, master's storyteller.

0:58.4

And he had some great insights on, you know, not only the current state of sports.

1:03.3

We spent a little bit of time on that, but also his first job at WNDU, the local NBC affiliate here in South Bend.

1:04.9

And we spent a bunch of time on Brian Kelly, as he's gotten to know him in a different way

1:09.4

than I think a lot of local beat media have.

1:12.4

So some insights on the uniqueness and peculiarities of Notre Dame's head coach.

1:17.6

I think you'll enjoy this conversation as kind of an insight into the guy who's running Notre Dame football in a different way in a different light than what you're used to.

1:27.2

So let's get to our special guest from ESPN, Tom Rinaldi.

1:33.7

Please to welcome to the latest episode of the Shamrock, a special guest, Tom Rinaldi, you probably recognize him from his work on ESPN, college game day, 12-time

1:47.4

national sports Emmy winner, sideline reporter for ESPN.

1:51.2

During normal times, he would be fresh out of Butler Cabin.

1:54.6

Unfortunately, these are not normal times.

1:57.6

And we brought him on, one, to talk a little bit about his career track, which you may not

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