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Dame football game begins in earnest on Friday evening. “It’s a little like packing for a camping trip,” says Cashore, who works for both the University of Notre Dame and for USA Today’s wire service . “Will it rain? I’ll have to pack rain gear to protect the cameras. How many cameras should I bring? It may be as few as three or as many as six.” For today’s 3:30 p . m . kickoff against the University of North

Sports photographer Matt Cashore has a front-row seat for every event he attends . . . when he is working!

Carolina, Cashore arrives on campus at 10 a . m . He wants to take pictures of the Fighting Irish band marching across campus, so he positions himself in the second-floor window of the Law School, past which the band will march. Then he heads over to Notre Dame Stadium. “There’s so much to do before the game,” says Cashore, “that the game itself is almost anticlimactic.” For instance, it is Cashore’s responsibility to provide captions for each photo that he will upload to the wire service.

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