Tweets of the Week: May 24
It’s the Friday before Memorial Day, which means for most of you an extra day to your weekend and the official start of summer. A lot happened over the last week, much as a lot happens every week. If you stepped away from your computer briefly, you might have missed it. So what could you have missed? Ndamukong Suh riding a Zamboni dot GIF. sbn.to/13OHEEt — SB Nation (@sbnation) May 24, 2013 Former Husker and current Detroit Lion Ndamukong Suh was at the ...
Hot Reads: Walk-off Walk
Nebraska lost its second game in the Big Ten Tournament in just about the most deflating way to lose a baseball game -- the walk-off walk. The Huskers battled Ohio State yesterday, a team that head coach Darin Erstad called his "dark horse" tournament champion earlier this year. Trailing 2-1 headed into the top of the ninth, Nebraska got a one out single from Ausitin Darby, pinch ran for him with Ty Kildow who, after Tanner Lubach flew out, stole second ...
Huskers-Illini get 11 AM kick
Nebraska is getting an earlier start on early starts in Big Ten play this year. In 2012, Nebraska didn't play a conference game in the early time slot until the Huskers faced Iowa at 11 a.m. on the Friday after Thanksgiving. The Huskers did have an early kickoff against Arkansas State in non-conference play last year. This season, Nebraska will open its conference slate at 11 a.m. against Illinois on Oct. 5. That is also Nebraska's homecoming game. Nebaska last played Illinois ...
Hot Reads: One Win Down
Four short days after getting pounded by Michigan 19-9 in the regular season finale at home, Nebraska exacted revenge, beating the Wolverines 11-2 in the teams' first round Big Ten Tournament game in Minneapolis. Michigan offered the Huskers some help, committing four errors that led to three unearned runs, but Nebraska was ready to hit as well. The Huskers batted .333 as a team, led by third basemen Blake Headley who went 3-for-5 at the plate with a run scored and ...
Behind the Scenes: The Hail Varsity Yearbook cover
We unveiled the cover for the first ever Hail Varsity Football Yearbook earlier this week on Facebook and Twitter. 148 pages of #Huskers football starring @tmag1c @afro_thunder80 & @ameerguapo twitter.com/HailVarsity/st… — Hail Varsity (@HailVarsity) May 21, 2013 Today we've got an exclusive behind the scenes video of our photo shoot with Kenny Bell, Ameer Abdullah, and Taylor Martinez. Check it out below: The yearbook will hit newsstands in June. Want to make sure you won't miss it? Subscribe today.
Money Talks
"What today brings is an opportunity for me to stand in front of you and chase a dream," Bret Bielema told the reporters and hog-calling cheerleaders assembled at the December press conference announcing him as the next head coach at Arkansas. It's the sort of thing you've got to say when you leave one high-profile football school for another, but Bielema made it pretty clear the real reason he decided to ditch Wisconsin days after winning his third straight Big Ten ...
Hot Reads: Watch Listing
Nebraska center Cole Pensick was named to the Rimington Trophy watch list on Tuesday. He was one of 44 players on the initial list and one of four from the Big Ten along with Travis Jackson (Michigan State), Corey Linsley (Ohio State), and Brandon Vitabile (Northwestern). Pensick made the list despite starting just two games at center last year. Not bad -- and I think Pensick will be one of the best centers in the nation this year -- but it ...
Erstad ready for some ‘bonus baseball’
Nebraska coach Darin Erstad met with the media in Minneapolis on Tuesday. Hear his comments on the beauty of tournament baseball in a major league park, the Huskers' All-Big Ten selections and Wednesday's starter Kyle Kubat in the video below. And, if you missed our Big Ten Tournament preview earlier today, get caught up here.
Big Ten Tournament Preview
"We're basically fighting for our lives now," Nebraska coach Darin Erstad said following the Huskers' loss to Michigan on Saturday. There wasn't much reason to be pensive after the Wolverines had just hammered the Huskers for 23 hits in the 19-9 win, costing Nebraska a chance at a top two seed and first-round bye in this week's Big Ten Tournament in Minneapolis. If anything good came from that loss, at least Nebraska now knew exactly what it would have to do ...
Hot Reads: DE Gregory may be delayed
We're officially in the "no news is good news" portion of the college football calendar. If you're not reading any breaking news about your favorite team, that's typically a good thing. The sort of stuff that makes for legitimate news at this point is rarely good. For example, according to BigRedReport.com it's going to come down to the wire as to whether or not JUCO transfer defensive end Randy Gregory can get academically cleared and enrolled in time to be in Lincoln ...
