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...
WatchRemembering Nebraska’s First Bowl Game
For NU, Everything’s still Coming up Roses
Al Zikmund (above) helps narrate NU’s 1941 Rose Bowl experience.
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By Randy York
The N-Sider has featured several “must read” stories, and today’s blog now offers up its first “must-see” video segment produced by Nebraska Educational Television’s Joel Geyer, a University of Indiana graduate who’s been more fascinated with...
