Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. SOUTH BEND — Former Notre Dame men’s basketball coach Digger Phelps, honored Friday with the Rockne Living Legend Award, thinks ...

"I can't get a job in television. There's not a lot of forgiveness for people that look like me in this world. And it's my fault. It's absolutely my fault." ...

Television basketball analyst and former Notre Dame coach Digger Phelps has played in all but the first celebrity golf championship. He arrived in Tahoe Monday to get in some practice rounds and catch ...

Digger Phelps has never been one to hold back. As a college basketball analyst for ESPN, he and fellow former Detroit University and Detroit Piston coach Dick Vitale are always trading shots about ...

SOUTH BEND — Former Notre Dame coaches Digger Phelps (basketball) and Jeff Jackson (hockey) are among the honorees for this year’s Knute Rockne Spirit of Sports Awards on Sept. 19. The ninth annual ...

Discovering star potential is hard for any coach or scout. But that was not the case for former Notre Dame coach Digger Phelps when he first came across a young Drazen Petrovic. In the former ...

The whole time, Digger Phelps kept staring at the other bench, and after awhile it became distracting. Here he was, carnation in lapel, a full house at Pauley Pavilion, a national TV audience — ...