Thursday Flakes: The Sweet 16 Begins
Eakin Howard-Imagn Images Don’t forget the joke of the week… The Sweet 16 starts today for the NCAA Men’s Tournament. I usually run the bracket at work and do it all by hand (I know, old school). This year however, I didn’t do it because I was off of work all week. I was accosted...
Nebraska MBB Recap: Huskers Make Late Push, Win 86-78
Dylan Widger-Imagn Images Huskers closed this one out great… FIRST HALF ANALYSIS: Arizona State held a slim lead early, as Basheer Jihad and Adam Miller had all 10 Sun Devil points. Juwan Gary and Brice Williams would keep things close, as Nebraska used a 12-2 run to take a quick lead. The game would go...
Nebraska Baseball Opens Series with 8-5 Win Over Rutgers
Nebraska Athletics 7 straight shutout innings to end the game start the Huskers off on the front foot. It was a tale of two games. Who would have thought that when the two lowest scoring teams in the Big Ten came to play that we would see the scoreboard light up early? Nebraska has struggled...
Nebraska Baseball Rocks #22 Kansas, 7-5
Nebraska Athletics Huskers get some big pitches from some rarely used arms against the Jayhawks. Nebraska traveled down to Lawrence, Kansas tonight to take on an old friend in the Jayhawks. Kansas boasts one of the best offenses in the Big XII, and Nebraska has expressed interest in rolling out at least 6 pitchers on...
Huskers’ Jordy Bahl Wins Her 4th Big Ten Pitcher of the Week Award!
Nebraska Athletics It was her 2nd consecutive POTW award and was announced just as the final game of the Northwestern series commenced. Jordy Bahl of the Nebraska Cornhuskers was just tabbed as the Big Ten Pitcher of the Week for the fourth time this season, the second consecutive week and the third time in the...
Wildcats Claw Back in the Ninth Inning to Beat Nebraska 9-7
Tyler Stone continues to hit for extra bases | Nebraska Athletics After scoring seven runs via the home run, they win the game on walks and a golf-shot Years ago, young kids with dreams of being a professional ballplayer watched reruns of a black and white show from 1960 called Home Run Derby. After an...
Nebraska Football Spring Preview: Linebackers – Cuts Are Coming From This Group
Photo by Williams Paul/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images 20 linebackers are currently rostered, but many won’t be much longer from a position group whose 2-deep is becoming clear. With 20 linebackers currently on the Nebraska Cornhuskers roster, anywhere from 5 to 8 of the names below could be appearing here for the last time when...
Corn Flakes: Two Huskers Selected in the NFL Draft and New Additions for Volleyball Signal Continued Excellence
Photo by Williams Paul/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images Plus, baseball and softball won their weekend series If you watched the Nebraska vs Kansas volleyball match, you likely came away with the same impression I did…Husker volleyball is going to be fun to watch this fall. A new coach installing an up-tempo offense and new players...
HUSKERS SOFTBALL Recap – A Big Step Forward: NEBRASKA 6 Maryland 0
Nebraska Athletics With five teams in contention for the top 4 spots in the Big 10, the Huskers avoided a rampaging Friday upset bug & local lightning strikes to defeat Maryland. On a Friday which felt more like Halloween than May Day, the Nebraska Cornhuskers took care of Maryland while lightning twice appeared in their...
HUSKERS BIG TEN TOURNEY SOFTBALL – Crush & Advance: NEBRASKA 9 Penn State 1
Andy Ketterson The Huskers take advantage of miscues in the first & grab a lead to which Penn State can’t catch up with Jordy Bahl on the mound. Penn State grabbed a couple of hits after Jordy Bahl plunked their leadoff hitter and pushed a run across for an early lead in the Nebraska Cornhuskers’...
Nebraska Wrestling: Six Former and Current Huskers Registered for Senior-Level World Team Trials
Nebraska junior-to-be Antrell Taylor, seen here celebrating after winning an NCAA title in March at 157 pounds, will be competing for a spot in Final X next weekend at the Senior World Team Trials. | Photo by Mitchell Leff/Getty Images In addition to seven-time World-Teamer James Green, Nebraska’s two newest NCAA Champions Ridge Lovett and...
HUSKERS SOFTBALL Storms Through Baton Rouge, Punches Ticket To Knoxville
Nebraska Athletics Survive and advance? This was more like shell, advance and conquer. Or blunt force trauma. If the Huskers could have written their own script for the Baton Rouge Regional, it would likely not have been as grand as the reality, but it probably would have run along these lines: Day 1 vs. UConn...