Paul Sheehan, in Fortes Mediacritic (No. 2,19941, P.O.Box 762, Bedminster, N.J. 07921.
The University of Notre Dame and its football coach, Lou Holtz, took a severe pounding last year in the best-selling Under the Tarnished Dome: How Notre Dame Betrayed Its Ideals for Football Glory.The authors, journalists Don Yaeger and Douglas Looney, portrayed Holtz as a repulsive, hypocritical, mentally unstable bully, and his players as an ugly crew of violent, stupid, drug- abusing jocks. Television news...