June 2012
2 posts
Creative Idea = Full Summer of Good Reads
Eric Crouch surveys Mizzou’s Faurot Field on his 95-yard touchdown run.
Lincoln Journal-Star Introduces 100-Yard Club
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By Randy York
This blog begins with a disclaimer. I worked 18 years for the Lincoln Journal-Star Sports Department, so I know what it’s like to compete daily against a newspaper with infinitely more resources and is now...
Coby Carries Life Skills Torch to New NU Job
Billy Coby explained what teammates presented: Life Skills According to Billy.
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By Randy York
There were lots of laughs Friday when coworkers and friends said goodbye to Billy Coby, who was working his last day as a Life Skills assistant in Nebraska’s Athletic Department. On Monday, Coby will carry his unique Life Skills torch to a new job...
May 2012
28 posts
Stokes Went with His Head over His Heart
Eric Stokes won four Nebraska letters at safety in 1993, ‘94, ‘95 and ‘96.
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By Randy York
In 1998, after an injury ended his two-year NFL career, Eric Stokes had a rare professional experience: Two job offers that came his way within hours of each other … one an opportunity to help his alma mater as a defensive...
NU’s Jamaican Trailblazer Gardner, 82, Dies
Keith Gardner was an Olympian, a role model and a Nebraska ambassador.
Nebraska Remembers Husker Great Keith Gardner
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By Randy York
One of the most successful student-athletes in Nebraska history died peacefully with his wife and three children at his side at St. Barnabas Hospital in Livingston, New Jersey, last weekend. Keith Gardner was...
Memorial Stadium Echoes Holiday's Meaning
The Eternal Flame symbolizes the sacrifices Nebraska veterans have made.
Nebraskans Killed in Action Since 2003
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By Randy York
Ninety years ago this fall, Nebraska’s faculty, students, alumni and friends of the University of Nebraska launched a drive to raise $430,000 to construct a football stadium. When that quota became...
Live to Give: Bo’s Players Model Head Coach
Cancer patient Jack Hoffman holds Rex Burkhead’s Uplifting Athletes Award.
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By Randy York
If the speed of the leader determines the rate of the pack, it’s no small coincidence that Nebraska’s football team has: 1) won back-to-back Life Skills Awards at the past two NU Student-Athlete Banquets; 2) is carrying the highest overall grade-point...
Revered Osborne Shares Views on Sirius XM
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By Randy York
Anyone fortunate enough to hear Tom Osborne’s views on college football Friday on national satellite radio couldn’t help but pick up an underlying drift from the two announcers who were interviewing him – Charlotte-based Mark Packer and Dan Hawkins, the former head football coach at Boise State and Colorado. In interviewing...
Helu Found Younger Role Model in Burkhead
Roy Helu Jr. will marry Dani Mancusco Saturday afternoon in Omaha.
Ex-Huskers Found Love after a Leap of Faith
For Helu, Football is About Perspective, Humility
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By Randy York
At 4 o’clock Saturday afternoon in Omaha, the owner of Nebraska’s single-game rushing record will marry another star Husker athlete, so I guess you could say...
The Ultimate Bus Stop: Home in Hartington
Russ Hochstein (pronounced Hoke-stine) begins NFL season No. 4 at Denver.
Russ Hochstein on YouTube: Hartington’s Favorite Son
Hochstein as a Nebraska Cornhusker
Hochstein’s First 11 Years in the NFL
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By Randy York
Leave it to an offensive lineman to come up with the ultimate gift that will just keep on giving every time his junior...
Memorial Stadium: Awe-Inspiring Experience
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By Randy York
The North Stadium lobby and hallways outside Nebraska’s football locker room Wednesday morning were overflowing with 120 kindergarteners from Lincoln’s Kooser Elementary, a school ready to celebrate its third birthday this summer. Named in honor of U.S. Poet Laureate and Nebraska’s Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Ted Kooser, the...
Abbott Sports Complex, Griffin Teaming Up
A productive setter, Maggie Griffin hopes to be an effective business leader.
Check out vcNebraska’s New Website
Register for Summer Camp Sessions
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By Randy York
Here’s an interesting piece of trivia for you. Of the 50 states in America, which one produces more Division I college volleyball players per capita than anyone else in...
T.O. Recruits Williams Again, 35 Years Later
NU grad Dr. Jamie Williams was the first person in his family to attend college.
Ex-Husker, NFL Tight End Joins Administrative Staff June 18
Jamie Williams’ Football Bio at Nebraska
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By Randy York
Anyone who thinks Tom Osborne might not still be a master in the fine art of recruiting, think again. Thirty-five years after...
Perlman: Future of College Football at Stake
Harvey Perlman wants to protect the regular season and student-athletes.
Tom Osborne: Expect More Playoff Controversy
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By Randy York
Harvey Perlman is 70 years old, and he’s now on Social Security, so he’s more than willing to speak his mind on a controversial subject. Last weekend, after his leadership lecture at the Champions Club,...
HAF Sponsoring Five Golf Tournaments
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By Randy York
Now that all booster clubs are organized under the umbrella of the Huskers Athletic Fund (HAF), Nebraska donors and special contributors have a one-stop shop to streamline their efforts of support. Please consider this blog a consolidated calendar for four of the five golf tournaments that HAF will sponsor this summer. The...
Six Reasons Why Big Ten is on the Same Page
Video: Why Tom Osborne is a Big Ten Icon
Chicago Tribune: Big Ten on Board for 4-Team Football Playoff
ESPN Blog: Did BIG Give Up Too Easily on Campus Sites?
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By Randy York
Whenever anyone asks me what I like most about the Big Ten Conference, I have a patented answer. “What I like most is the Big Ten almost always seems to be on the same...
Is College Football HOF Rule in Effect Here?
Did Will Shields’ 2011 HOF enshrinement preclude another Husker in 2012?
2012 FBS College Football Hall of Fame Class
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By Randy York
Nebraska football fans undoubtedly were disappointed Tuesday watching the official announcement of the National Football Foundation’s 2012 College Football Hall of Fame class. Fourteen players were...
NU Fans Can Watch Hall-of-Fame News Live
Tommie Frazier joins Trev Alberts and Eric Crouch as 2012 HOF candidates.
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By Randy York
Nebraska football fans eager to know if Trev Alberts, Eric Crouch or Tommie Frazier will become Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) members of the 2012 College Football Hall of Fame class don’t have to wait to read the news on Huskers.com. Thanks to...
EliteForm Geared to Help All Athletes Improve
Watch Brandon Rigoni Demonstrate the New Husker Power
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By Randy York
The best news about Nebraska introducing its state-of-the-art EliteForm strength and conditioning product at last week’s national strength conference in Orlando is simply this: It is not an elitist product designed specifically for elite athletes. True to Nebraska’s...
The Power of Blogging: Mystery Man Solved
Devaney Built It; That’s Why NU Fans Came
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By Randy York
Let me say this up front. I’ve been sitting on this story for a month, not because it lacks interest or even a high level of intrigue. It qualifies both ways. Waiting a month is a mere flash when insiders have known this story for 50 years but never saw the need to identify the...
Devaney Built It; That’s Why NU Fans Came
The 15th Anniversary of Bob Devaney’s Death
Babcock: Devaney Disdained Pass, Ran to Win
Kelly: Devaney Made Fans Demand the Best
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By Randy York
Leaving work Friday evening, I looked at the south wall in my office before turning out the light and happened to catch a glimpse of Bob Devaney. He was looking straight at me from the...
Softball Celebrating Four Big Deals at Once
Buy Tickets to Friday’s Doubleheader
Promotions Set for Final Home Weekend
Free Softball Tailgate Set for Saturday
PDF of Nebraska-Wisconsin Game Notes
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By Randy York
Leave it to a fast-moving multi-tasker like Rhonda Revelle to find four big deals to celebrate in one fell swoop. In year No. 20 as Nebraska’s record-setting head...
GameDay Vote: It Ain’t Over Till It’s Over
Vote Here and Help Bring ESPN to Lincoln
Rittenberg: Will Big Ten Support NU in Poll?
Vote Red in Primary Ending Tonight
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By Randy York
Just when everyone seemed ready to settle for the runner-up honor in tonight’s final balloting for ESPN’s Bring GameDay to Your Campus Vote, Nebraska fans have hope. The second-place Huskers...
Huskers Eye 100,000 Attendance Milestone
Fireworks will highlight Friday night’s Nebraska-Minnesota baseball game.
Buy tickets for Friday’s 6:35 p.m. game/Fan Appreciation Night
Buy tickets for Saturday’s 2:05 p.m. game/Parents Day
Buy tickets for Sunday’s 1:05 p.m. game/Senior Day
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By Randy York
This could be a make-or-break weekend for Nebraska baseball and...
SI, ESPN Agree: Tim Miles is a Mover, Shaker
Sports Illustrated called new NU Coach Tim Miles “the hire of the season.”
SI Columnist: Miles ‘The Hire’ of the 2012 Season
ESPN: Miles No. 4 among 10 Best Coaching Hires
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By Randy York
In the avalanche of college football spring practices, the NFL draft and Nebraska baseball, perhaps you’ve lost track of college basketball,...
Honored Dobson Has One Motive: The Team
James Dobson will receive a Master Coach award in Orlando this week.
EliteForm: That Next Big Thing Here Now
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By Randy York
James Dobson is a lot like the head coach who hired him. He sees the world in black-and-white with no shades of grey in between, so that means he will do what he always does at the National Conference of the...
Gordon Stays Hot, So Plan That Trip to KC
Alex Gordon had his eighth 4-hit Major League Baseball game Saturday night.
Buy Tickets Directly from the Kansas City Royals
Kauffman Stadium: 40 Years and 68 Million Fans
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By Randy York
Maybe it’s not such a good idea to use a New York song to lead a Midwestern blog, but I’m going to do it anyway. So start spreading the news and...
Nephew of One NU Legend Meets Another
A distinguished UCLA professor enjoyed meeting a Nebraska football legend.
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By Randy York
Ewald Richard Stiehm, namesake and nephew of Ewald “Jumbo” Stiehm (pronounced Steam), made his first-ever trip to Lincoln Friday, and the 79-year-old Distinguished Professor of Pediatrics at UCLA’s School of Medicine experienced a...
This Time Around, Lavonte ‘Recruits’ Yoshi
Coach Bo Pelini greets Yoshi Hardrick before his last home football game.
Yoshi’s Journey: Blind Side Story of His Life
Did David Make the Season’s Defining Play?
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By Randy York
Thursday afternoon, the commercial flight that carried 6-7, 320-pound Yoshi Hardrick landed at Tampa International Airport at 1 o’clock. Seventeen...
Jacobson Has Fresh Perspective on Awards
Jacobson Wins Nagurski Legends Award
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By Randy York
Larry Jacobson had no problem keeping his ego in check Wednesday when another highly respected football organization – the Charlotte Touchdown Club – announced that he will be the seventh recipient of the Bronko Nagurski Legends Award that recognizes outstanding defensive football players...
Groce: From Off the Radar to All-American
DeJuan Groce owns NU’s longest two kickoff return TDs in bowl games.
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By Randy York
Fourteen years ago last December, a superb athlete from Garfield Heights, Ohio, a Cleveland suburb, decided to visit Nebraska. Lincoln was off his personal radar, but DeJuan Groce wanted to see what life was like outside the Big Ten Conference and...
April 2012
22 posts
NU Leader Wants to Serve His Country, Too
Neil Dufford is the president of NU’s Student-Athlete Advisory Committee.
Dufford, Woodberry, Russell, Schryver New SAAC Officers
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By Randy York
Intrigued when I saw that the president of Nebraska’s 2012-13 Student-Athlete Advisory Committee (SAAC) officers was working on two Bachelor’s degrees simultaneously – one in...
Husker Fan Has Fond ’94 GameDay Memories
Chris Fowler happily gave a Nebraska fan his autograph 18 years ago.
The College GameDay Vote is Back On
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By Randy York
Bill Ziegler is one of those lifelong Nebraska football fans whose experiences are few but passions are strong. He was born in Grand Island and moved to Pennsylvania at age 6. Growing up, he bled Big Red living in the...
NU Baseball Dramatically Different Since 1962
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By Randy York
When 14 players returned to Lincoln this weekend to celebrate the 50-year reunion of the 1962 Nebraska baseball team, they had to be struck by two things: 1) the excellence of Nebraska’s baseball facilities; and 2) how much more specialized the game is today than it was when they played half a century ago. No wonder Ron...
Softball Fans Can Bring Their Bark to the Park
Huskers Return Home to Host Michigan State
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By Randy York
What does a softball team that’s 11-0 at home this season and 14-0 at home stretching back to last season do to attract more doggone fans into the friendly confines of Bowlin Stadium? If you’re Nebraska and willing to try something different, you make Saturday “Bark in the...
Video Honoree Nobler Focused on Coaches
Video director Mike Nobler provides a key part of Nebraska’s game planning.
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By Randy York
Now that Mike Nobler has earned the Big Ten Conference’s highest honor among football video coordinators, he’ll do what all customer-focused workers do – accept an award on behalf of everyone who helped him and then find ways to...
Nebraska Sets Its 2013 Sights on a Super Site
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By Randy York
OK, Nebraska fans, listen up. This is not a done deal, but if you want to do a little advance planning, circle Sept. 7, 2013 on your calendar, and start dropping $5 and $10 bills in your cookie jar, along with a slew of $1 bills and leftover change. That way, whenever Southern Miss announces it will host Nebraska’s...
ESPN Puts Its Fan Poll Temporarily on Hold
By Randy York
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Like everyone else, I was surprised this morning when I checked the ESPN College GameDay Fan Poll. Instead of making my one Nebraska vote per day in this 10-day promotional campaign, I was stopped dead in my tracks with this announcement on the poll’s homepage: “We’ve been overwhelmed with the fan response! We’re taking a...
Share Your Favorite ESPN College Gameday Memories
Your Vote Can Bring GameDay to Lincoln
By Randy York
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Welcome to the shortest N-Sider blog in our less than one-year history. In light of a college football fan poll contest that will launch Monday to determine which lucky school gets to have a GameDay commercial filmed on its campus this summer, we have a request that’s designed to keep...
April 30 Deadline for Bo’s Celebrity Dinner
Register here for Bo Pelini Foundation Celebrity Dinner May 6
By Randy York
If you missed the first two Bo Pelini Foundation Celebrity Dinners, you missed a chance to hear Nebraska’s head football coach laugh about his golf game and Larry the Cable Guy help you laugh about everything else. Larry the Cable Guy is a first-class entertainer, and Bo’s Foundation Dinner is a first-class event that has...
Jack Takes a Step Back; Optimism Prevails
Jack Hoffman gets to hold Rex Burkhead’s Uplifting Athletes trophy Saturday.
By Randy York
Wednesday was a bad news/good news day for the Hoffman family at Boston Children’s Hospital. The bad news was 6-year-old Jack Hoffman, Rex Burkhead’s little buddy who’s been battling pediatric brain cancer for a year now, had an MRI show that a spot in his brain was, in fact, a tumor which has...
NU Prof Sees Husker Leadership in Action
Professor says Ashley Miller and Tyler Hitchler are both great students.
Miller, Hitchler 2012 Student-Athletes of the Year
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By Randy York
If you ever wondered how Nebraska selects its coveted Student-Athletes of the Year, wonder no more. At Nebraska, there’s a finite line between student and athlete, making the final decision every year...
“Competition for this annual award is so fierce that this is one of the most...”
– Joe Potuto, NU Faculty Athletic Rep
South Dakota Fan Values Osborne Gesture
Brayden Jervik, 7, met Husker defensive lineman Kevin Williams Saturday.
Osborne Announces Two Options for Spring Game Tickets
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By Randy York
Dan Jervik lives in Parkston, South Dakota: Population 1,700 and located 20 miles south of Mitchell. He works at the local small-town bar, owned by an uncle of a well-known Iowa Hawkeye player....
Dye: Engaging, Intelligent, a Real Gentleman
Former Nebraska AD Tippy Dye led Washington to a Final Four in basketball.
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By Randy York
An iconic figure at three prominent BCS schools – Ohio State, Washington and Nebraska – Tippy Dye died Wednesday at age 97 in Northern California after a short illness. The legacy he leaves at Nebraska: Being the athletic director who “hired”...
Johnny R: The Recruit, the Legend, the Man
Mike Babcock on Johnny: The recruit USC bypassed
Tom Shatel on Johnny: The man who’s giving back
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By Randy York
Johnny “The Jet” Rodgers is a legend not only because he was Nebraska’s first Heisman Trophy winner in 1972, but also because he’s found ways to be innovative four decades later. Never was that more evident than...
NU Bowlers Legit National Title Contenders
Junior Kristina Mickelson is coming off her career-best performance.
Follow NCAA Women’s Bowling Tournament on NCAA.com
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By Randy York
Buried in a festival-like avalanche of Nebraska’s upcoming sports weekend – a Spring Game in football, plus home games/matches in volleyball, women’s soccer and women’s tennis – is the NCAA Women’s...
Weekend Gives Husker Fans a Spring Fling
NU’s Gina Mancuso, P.J. Smith, Mary Weatherholt and Jordan Jackson.
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By Randy York
Here’s a big N-Sider shout-out to Husker fans who want to take cool to a whole new level this weekend. Put in some extra work this week, so you can leave early Friday and catch the hottest Nebraska athletic team that very few know about. On Friday at 3...
Burkhead Honor Set before Spring Game
Rex Burkhead gives a fist-bump to Jack Hoffman, his own “little hero”.
Spring Game set for Saturday at Memorial Stadium
Ripple effect led to Burkhead’s national award
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By Randy York
If you’re a Rex Burkhead fan, you might want to be in your seat 20 minutes early Saturday before Nebraska’s Spring Football Game at...
NU Salutes National Student-Athlete Day
NU freshman infielder Mattie Fowler shares priorities with Lincoln High students.
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By Randy York
Today is National Student-Athlete Day and rest assured, Nebraska is saluting more than 600 student-athletes in the best way we know how … with purpose, action and meaning. After starting the day serving a hot breakfast to all Husker...
Davis, Runty: THE Stars in T.O.’s ’73 Debut
Sportscaster Lyell Bremser called Tony Davis “The Tornado from Tecumseh”.
Mike Babcock on Tom Osborne’s First Game: UCLA
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By Randy York
The date: Sept. 8, 1973. The opponent: UCLA. Tom Osborne, 36, would make his Nebraska head coaching debut in a home game that was moved up a week to accommodate an ABC national telecast. That...