My thoughts by Paul M. Dugan

Happy-Holidays & Happy New Year!!! Fiesta-Bowl that University of Notre Dame Football is in & looks great vs Ohio st.  We Are ND!!! Proud To Be ND!!!!! How will this game go for espn this time?  Here is a mini preview from Notre Dame Fighting-Irish Football right here:   http://www.und.com/bowlcentral/nd-16-fiesta-bowl.html More info later today.

Hope your Christmas holiday went this year.  I got see some of my family & eat lots of great food while on my visit and saw lots of cool stuff while in town.  Just a few pictures with the family during the visit.  Take care & Merry Christmas and Happy New Years too!!!!!!!

Will you see this #StarWarsTheForceAwakens #movie in #IMAX3D?  The #StarWars - #TheForceAwakens looks good but will #IMAX #3D work out for it?  http://www.imax.com/movies/star-wars-the-force-awakens-an-imax-3d-experience

Hope your holidays have being going well for you.  I did make some peanut butter blossoms already & they tasted pretty awesome.        Well college bowl season for football will start this Saturday so get ready for it.  Just a reminder that Notre Dame Football plays Ohio state in the fiesta bowl on Jan. 1st, 2016 around 1pm et - Go Irish!!!! (Game will be shown on ESPN).        Thanks for all of the kind words about our lost of our sweet, cute & honesty dog name Winnie that went to doggie heavenafter Thanksgiving  this year. It's being very hard on my family since we had her over 9 1/2 years with us.       We almost have all of our decorations up for Christmas. I just need to put up a few of my houses during the holidays when I am ready.  Everything is going to plan for my holiday until this point.  Just tired at this point. Right now I am still recovering from being sick before visiting family for the holidays.  Yeah all of our decorations are up right now.   Are you seein

#StarWars #TheForceAwakens #movie - #picture time  is coming soon on December 18th, 2015: #MayTheForceBeWithYou friends & family over the #Holidays.

Last Monday night, my Princess Winnie Dugan the dog went to doggy heaven. She had too many problems with her health that she couldn't recover from. She had a great life with our family for 9 1/2 years. Winnie made life very interesting for us along the way. Thank you to the people who met or saw her be happy and being active around the neighborhood. My family and I loved this Winnie the dog so much our hearts split open when she left us. There are two things that I loved about Winnie: She never bit me and she expressed herself a lot. Here are some photos of Winnie in her time on Earth with us. Winnie and I were Han Solo & Chewbacca the Wookie AKA Winnie the Wookie for Halloween.    Love from Winnie the dog's Daddy,   Paul More info: Hi & how are you.., Thanks for your kind words about our Winnie the dog Dugan who is off to doggy heaven.  It hit me really hard but family & friends are doing what they can for me.

Oh well my Winnie the dog hasn't being feeling well lately so we took her to the regular vet then she got worse so had to get to her to a better vet hospital to have 24 hour care to make her comfortable also.  The parents, Mike & I are praying for her safe return home.  A Winnie the dog report is here:  She is very tired & little alert when mom & I saw for 2 to 3 hours.  The next 24 hours is very critical for her to recover from her issues. She has lots things going on with her for the vets to figure out what's really wrong with her. Time to pray more for my little Winnie the dog to get better to come home.

I am a #1 fan of #NDfootball who thinks the #cfbplayoff - #CFP25 is joke as usually.  #GoIrish!!! #WeAreND!!! #ProudToBeND!!!!  #ND - #NDFB #FightingIrish tried to #AccomplishTheMission!!! - #NDvsSTAN was a great game on #Fox channel - for #FoxSports ratings but #NotreDame didn't get the job done but hopes the bowl bid well worth it after a great season. #ND had a great season with all key injures they had to come out of this season.  #Team127 rocks on!!! Result:  http://www.und.com/sports/m-footbl/recaps/112815aaa.html

Hope your thanksgiving went well like ours since we ate lots of food but we waited a long time to have dessert also. Here are my sports menu on thanksgiving was terrible when all the NFL match up were bad mostly.  ND FOOTBALL got a big game at Stanford this Saturday - Nov. 28th, 2015 on the FOX TV channel: preview of the game . NOTRE DAME Men Basketball stuff on here. NOTRE DAME Women Basketball stuff on here. Other college basketball games are on TV beside college football, NFL, NBA & NHL and etc.

On Thanksgiving Day. Happy Thanksgiving to all family & friends out there!!!!  Have lots of Turkey on Turkey Day!! Thanksgiving is fun too!! 🦃🦃🦃🦃🦃🦃🦃

UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME football looking great for the college football playoff rankings while #4 in the college football playoff 25 rankings while on TV - "A Season With on Show Time - SHOW time Sports. #WeAreND! #ProudToBeND!!  #ND #FightingIrish rocks on!!!!  #AccomplishTheMission - #NDonNBCSN - #NotreDame on #NBCSN - #NBC #Sports Network around 7:00pm et - #NDvsBC - #ShamrockSeries game on Saturday night. Preview of the game:  http://www.und.com/sports/m-footbl/spec-rel/111715aae.html #NDfootball looking great for the #cfbplayoff while #4 in the #CFP25 while on #TV - #ASeasonWith on #ShowTime - #SHOSports. #WeAreND! #ProudToBeND!!  #ND #FightingIrish had a tough #win tonight!!!!  #AccomplishTheMission - #NDonNBCSN - #NotreDame on #NBCSN - #NBC #Sports Network  - #NDvsBC - #ShamrockSeries game. Result of the game:  http://www.und.com/sports/m-footbl/recaps/112215aaa.html

Sorry for hear about the terrible events in Paris, France from last week & other events that weren't found out in time.   Yes sports most of the time help forget bad things that happen in life on Earth but it hard to do so. Yeah I know that life is always going to throw a curve ball to see what you can do in your life to do better.

University of Notre Dame Fighting Irish Football need's to play hard in the Notre Dame versus Wake Forest game.  We Are ND! Proud To Be ND!!! Notre Dame is on NBC today around 3:30pm et - last home game of the season.  - #Team127 rocks on!!!!! Here Come The Irish!!!! Wake Up The Echoes!!!! Play Like A Champion Today!!!!! God, Country and Notre Dame!!!!! Preview link:   http://www.und.com/sports/m-footbl/spec-rel/111015aaa.html I have seen some of the showtime show that Notre Dame Football is doing this season. It's pretty cool to see.  ND won the game:  http://www.und.com/sports/m-footbl/recaps/111415aaa.html

http://www.collegefootballplayoff.com/#home0 I am a very big fan of University of Notre Dame Football and wonders if the #cfbplayoff - #CFP25 so called committee will do the the right thing on the strength of schedule helps the top 25 or not? Go Irish!!! We Are ND!!! Proud to be ND!!!!  University of Notre Dame #FightingIrish football team are #4 this time.   #AccomplishTheMission!!! Click on the link for further information. 🍀🏈🍀🏈🍀🏈🍀🏈🏈🍀🍀🍀🏈🍀🏈🍀🏈

 University of NOTRE DAME Fighting Irish FOOTBALL need to play hard in the Notre Dame at Pittsburgh game right now. We Are ND! Proud To Be ND!!! ND is on ABC.  Watch on espn app also.  #Team127 rocks on!!!!! #AccomplishTheMission:  Preview:   http://www.und.com/sports/m-footbl/spec-rel/110315aaf.html University of NOTRE DAME Fighting Irish Football did very well in the win for NOTRE DAME at Pittsburgh game earlier today.  We Are ND!  Proud To Be ND!!!- Team 127 rocks on!!!!! They Accomplish The Mission:  Result:   http://www.und.com/sports/m-footbl/recaps/110715aab.html

AP Top 25 RK TEAM RECORD PTS 1 Connecticut  (32)  0-0 800 2 South Carolina 0-0 758 3 Notre Dame 0-0 714 4 Tennessee 0-0 711 5 Baylor 0-0 672 6 Ohio State 0-0 570 7 Florida State 0-0 551 8 Louisville 0-0 541 9 Maryland 0-0 536 10 Oregon State 0-0 518 11 Mississippi State 0-0 465 12 Texas 0-0 459 13 Texas A&M 0-0 397 14 Duke 0-0 392 15 Arizona State 0-0 347 16 Stanford 0-0 338 17 Oklahoma 0-0 264 18 Kentucky 0-0 241 19 Northwestern 0-0 209 20 South Florida 0-0 202 21 George Washington 0-0 171 22 North Carolina 0-0 94 23 Syracuse 0-0 74 24 Michigan State 0-0 61 25 Chattanooga 0-0 60 Others receiving votes:  Princeton 58, DePaul 45, Florida Gulf Coast 37, Rutgers 34, Iowa 17, California 14, Dayton 13, Arkansas 8, Western Kentucky 6, Vanderbilt 5, West Virginia 4, UCLA 4, Iowa State 4, Missouri 3, Gonzaga 2, Miami (FL) 1 Dropped from rankings:  Princeton 13, Iowa 18, Florida Gulf Coast 20, California 24

USA Today Coaches Poll RK TEAM RECORD PTS 1 Connecticut  (32)  0-0 800 2 South Carolina 0-0 757 3 Notre Dame 0-0 719 4 Tennessee 0-0 689 5 Baylor 0-0 666 6 Maryland 0-0 620 7 Florida State 0-0 542 8 Louisville 0-0 528 9 Oregon State 0-0 460 10 Ohio State 0-0 435 11 Texas 0-0 429 12 Duke 0-0 388 13 Mississippi State 0-0 385 14 Stanford 0-0 382 15 Arizona State 0-0 377 16 Texas A&M 0-0 304 17 Kentucky 0-0 303 18 Oklahoma 0-0 210 19 South Florida 0-0 183 20 North Carolina 0-0 143 21 George Washington 0-0 109 22 DePaul 0-0 106 23 Iowa 0-0 101 24 Northwestern 0-0 98 25 Princeton 0-0 84 Others receiving votes:  Michigan State 79, Dayton 76, Florida Gulf Coast 68, Gonzaga 63, Rutgers 44, Syracuse 42, Chattanooga 41, St John's 33, California 28, UCLA 22, Iowa State 17, LSU 17, Miami (FL) 11, Nebraska 9, Seton Hall 8, Middle Tennessee 6, Washington 4, West Virginia 3, Villanova 2, Virginia 2, Arkansas-Little Rock 2, Arkansas State 1, Green Bay 1, Albany

I am a #1 fan of University of Notre Dame Football & other sports just got a great vibe by the college football playoff selection committee this time.  Go Irish!!! We Are ND!!! Proud To Be ND!!!!  Notre Dame Fighting Irish are #5 in the ranking.  Accomplish The Mission!!! for the college football playoff ranking the top 25 that espn had on earlier tonight.  Check the rankings on this link:  1st week -  http://www.collegefootballplayoff.com/press-releases/college-football-playoff-selection-committee-releases-first-rankings-of-2015-season Take care ND FANS out there. Peace too.