Len Clark
Episode 352
27 OCT 2025
He specializes in covering Notre Dame athletics using emerging media technologies. He has been recognized as the Indiana Sportscaster of the Year by the National Sports Media Association, from which he also received the association’s national Powerade Award for his audio feature on the Notre Dame-USC football rivalry. Last year he authored the book, “Teddy and The Gipper: A Notre Dame Friendship,” and now his newest book is releasing, called, “Vision, Values, and Victories: Notre Dame-Style Leadership: Forging Champions in Faith, Character, and Commitment.” He was the guest on this show six-and-a-half years ago way back on Episode 11.
Notable guest quotes:
“With the release of chat GPT by Open AI a couple of years ago, that has really opened the floodgates of this new medium, if you will, that I have really adapted to because if I want to consider myself an educator of the next generation of multimedia journalists, I have to stay ahead of them and I have embraced it and am really having a lot of fun with it.”
“Adversity is part of life. It’s the way that you respond, and it’s been my Catholic faith that has really gotten me through some tough times, especially in the past couple of years.”
“I didn’t learn until four days before the Ireland game, after the Marcus Freeman press conference, that I was fired … and the first thing that went through my mind is, ‘How am I going to help my mother’?”
“The faith in Ireland is, it was refreshing. It reinvigorated my faith.”
“I said it would be great if I can tie in everything I like to do in Ireland. I like to walk the pilgrim paths, and I actually completed all the five pilgrim paths and received this Gaelic title for being … only the 8th American to do it.”
“In order to lead others, you have to learn how to lead yourself.”
“George Gipp almost drowned in the St. Joe River and was saved by Father Cornelius Haggerty because he didn’t know how to swim. Now, if he would have drowned, there wouldn’t be no ‘win one for the Gipper’.”
“Everything about a Notre Dame football game has a reference to the Catholic faith and that’s why every time I step back on campus you just have this feeling that you have to be bigger and better than yourself and be a person of service.”
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