Timothy Roemer: “the famous sports writer Grantland Rice once wrote these words: ``Outlined against a blue-gray October sky, the four…”

“the famous sports writer Grantland Rice once wrote these words: ``Outlined against a blue-gray October sky, the four horsemen rode again. In dramatic lore they are known as famine, pestilence, destruction and death.'' These famous words name the four horsemen with the University of Notre Dame football team. With the women's national championship win, with the Notre Dame basketball program Sunday night, we have at least four new names in Irish legend and in ``Hoosier Hysteria.'' They are Ratay and Ivey, Riley and Siemon, players that fought with tenacity and heart to come back from a 16-point deficit against the defending champs, the University of Connecticut, in a semifinal game and win by 15 points. They are the team that came back from 12 points down in the national championship game against the respected intrastate rivals, the Purdue Boilermakers with all-American Katie Douglas, and won the national championship by 2 points Sunday night. I have to say to my colleagues in the House of Representatives, this was a flat-out exciting game that was one of the best national championships fought between men or women's games in the history of national basketball tournaments.…”