2020 Husker Football Game Watches
With Coach Frost starting to rebuild the program with his recruits and culture, this should be the year that...
Annual Chapter Picnic Canceled
| After careful consideration and deliberation, the Northeast Kansans for Nebraska board of directors has decided to cancel this year’s chapter picnic. We are sorry we won’t be able to have this annual get together. It’s a great time for all University of Nebraska supporters in our area to get updated on all of our Husker athletics and especially to get ready for the upcoming football season. Our chapter efforts go on, however. Your membership helps us with our chapter operations, to manage programs and our... |
2020 Road to Nebraska Scholarship Campaign
| The Northeast Kansans for Nebraska isn’t just a fun place to socialize with other Husker fans and watch football games. We are proud of the support our members have provided to students pursuing a college education at the University of Nebraska. Since 2001, we have been able to provide 26 students with more than $22,000 in scholarships from money that our members have contributed. Currently, our goal is to provide $1,500 each year to two students from northeast Kansas. Several years ago, the Northeast Kansans... |
Multiple Sources Point To No Football In The Fall
| Patrick Gorski-USA TODAY Sports The big decision should be made in the upcoming days Multiple sources such as ESPN, The Athletic, & Sports Illustrated are reporting that the Power 5 conferences held a meeting on Sunday to discuss the upcoming football season. Those sources indicated that the powers that be are now leaning to no fall sports this year due to complications that have arisen due to COVID-19. Many leaders in the Big Ten Conference are supposedly pushing to halt fall sports and hold them... |
Jon’s Postlife Crisis: Adam Riley – HS Activities Director On How They’re Preparing For Fall
| It’s another level of sports.. and it’s moving ahead. This episode I talk with Adam Riley, Associate Principal/Activities Director and (temporary) head baseball coach of Decorah High School in Decorah, Iowa. We discuss: What do the kids think about How he deals with parents that are all over the spectrum When does he see this ending? What does the decision making structure look like? Are will killing off our decision makers? Please Subscribe! I would really appreciate it if you could subscribe to our podcasts!... |
Nebrasketball Player Profiles: Kobe Webster
| Brian Spurlock-USA TODAY Sports A sharpshooting point guard joins the roster as a graduate transfer. The preseason hoops coverage continues at this most basketball loving, hoops centric website! We’ll be covering the full roster of our Nebraska Cornhuskers hoops team, and up today is the newcomer senior sharpshooting point guard Kobe Webster from Indianapolis, Indiana. He stands 6-foot and clocks in at 160 pounds with a decent eye for dishing assists. Webster committed to the Cornhuskers in March as a graduate transfer after an outstanding... |
Big Ten: College Football On Hold – Helmets Only Practicing
| Photo by Steven Branscombe/Getty Images The conference issues a statement putting football practices effectively in a holding pattern. The Big Ten announced today that schools will remain in the “acclimation period” in football practices, requiring that players wear only football helmets, no pads allowed. Here is the statement in full. The Big Ten Conference announced today, based on the advice and counsel of the Big Ten Task Force for Emerging Infectious Diseases and the Big Ten Sports Medicine Committee, that, until further notice, all institutions... |
Nebraska Ultimate Defensive Line Bracket: The Final Four
| It is Glover vs Dutton and Suh vs Peter in the Final Four! I know I promised to put this up on Wednesday or Thursday, but then the Big Ten decided to announce its football schedule and WE ACTUALLY HAD REAL LIVE FOOTBALL STUFF TO TALK ABOUT! We are down to the Final Four. The lone upset in Round Two was in Jason Peter beating Wayne Meylan. I know there was a spirited effort in the comments last time rallying support for Meylan, but alas... |
Nebraska Athletics Releases Options For Season Ticket Holders
| Photo by Steven Branscombe/Getty Images The Nebraska athletic department gives flexibility with this years games. The University of Nebraska Athletic Department has released their upcoming season ticket plan for current Husker athletic ticket holders. Like many departments across the country, the University of Nebraska will be facing some financial loss due to COVID-19 in the upcoming season. According to the letter sent out today, the expected loss within the department could be anywhere from $40 to $100 million. A fairly large sum for anywhere in... |
Nebrasketball Player Profiles: Thorir Thorbjarnarson
| Joseph Maiorana-USA TODAY Sports The God of Thunder is back for his final season in Lincoln, and boy are we hoping his hammer strike is just as deadly as last season! As we inch ever closer to the basketball season, we continue to give you the preseason coverage you all keep visiting this basketball centric website for! Starting today we kick off the player profile series for our Nebraska Cornhuskers with the most familiar face to you all in yet another season of huge roster... |
SB Nation Reacts: Conference Centric Scheduling
| Welcome to SB Nation Reacts, a survey of fans across the NCAA. Each week, we send out questions to the most plugged in Nebraska Cornhuskers fans, and fans across the country. Sign up here to join Reacts. As the start of the normal college football season draws closer, schools and conferences are still scrambling to put together a 2020 schedule. Wednesday, the Big Ten released conference-only schedules for all 14 teams. Other leagues have made similar decisions, or at least dramatically cut back on non-conference... |
Frosted Flakes: No Football at UConn, Pet Alligators, and Assassin Flies
| Photo by Bruna Prado/Getty Images Parents who are helping kids with homeschool work drink more. This surprises no one. The big news today was the Big Ten office releasing the 2020 football schedule. At least, we hope there will be football. Regardless, the schedule developed by the league office is pretty ingenious. A lot of work went into scheduling ‘pods’ of games in such a way that teams playing each other share bye weeks. A game that has to be postponed can be moved to... |
Husker Football Spotlight: Wan’Dale Robinson
| Wan’Dale scoring once again against Big Ten foe Illinois | Patrick Gorski-USA TODAY Sports Everything you need to know about our star receiver Introducing our new series “Husker Football Spotlight.” This is a series where we will examine many players on the football team and provide stories of their background and where they came from. We will also examine their playing ability and make predictions on if they will make an impact for the Nebraska Cornhuskers this season. Our first spotlight is Wan’Dale Robinson. Robinson... |
Big Red Cobcast Ep. 322: Hoss Reuter
| We’re bringing all the ghosts of Corn Nation back to life! Last week, as part of our re-entry into the Corn Nation stratosphere, we brought Jon Johnston onto the Big Red Cobcast. As part of our continued reacclimation, we decided to reach out to another (former) Corn Nation guy, former Five Hearts podcaster Hoss Reuter. Hoss is one of our favorite people, a great guy to call up late, talk about weird things, drink a beer with, compare deadlifts and talk in-depth Xs and Os.... |
Frosted Flakes: The Greatest Sport Known to Mankind- Kickball
| Photo by Joe Murphy/NBAE via Getty Images You know it’s true Since the prospect of actually getting to watch college football is still up in the air, I want to talk about another awesome sport. Kickball. If you think about it kickball should really be a televised professional sport. It’s fun and entertaining and I’m sure the commentating would be wonderful. I probably would’ve gotten a college scholarship in kickball. Maybe. Possibly. Well anyway in my mind I was really good. I was always stoked... |
