Husker football is 1-0! I saw a lot of punditry insisting that the Huskers needed a big win over Cincinnatti. The thinking was that for a Matt Rhule Year Three surge to get underway, it needed to happen from the start. It had to announce itself loudly as it entered the room.
We saw a Blackshirt defense that is still figuring out things in the front seven. We saw that Emmett Johnson is going to have to be broken before he comes off the field. We saw an offensive line that is half figured out. We also
saw a quarterback that flashes his incredible potential but then overthinks something on the next play and misses an easy one.
Most importantly, we saw a team not succumb to the demons and not allow the opponent to tie up or win the game in the closing seconds. A play needed to be made and it was.
I want to see a team that continues to find a way to make those plays. Hopefully, they begin to make them earlier than the closing seconds.
Corn Flakes
Matt Rhule sounds off on late game mentality shift in Nebraska’s win
While Nebraska football head coach Matt Rhule knows that his team didn’t play perfectly, he likes what he saw on the whole.
Huskers hope they’ve kicked their habit of being on the wrong side of one-score games
Nebraska came into the season having lost 35 of its last 45 one-score games, a dubious distinction that inspired a popular T-shirt for fans that reads, “We Almost Always Almost Win.”
Three quick sideouts from Nebraska volleyball’s reverse-sweep win vs Kentucky
While Nebraska’s first match in Nashville was a showcase of the team’s depth – the Huskers played 14 of the 17 players on the roster against Lipscomb – Sunday’s comeback win over Kentucky showed that when it comes to crunch time, this is Harper Murray’s team.
Husker volleyball stays undefeated in thrilling reverse sweep again Kentucky
he Huskers won 24-26, 20-25, 25-19, 25-23, 15-8 at Bridgestone Arena in Nashville.
Husker soccer defeats Omaha 2-1
The Nebraska soccer team totaled a season-high 25 shots and downed the Omaha Mavericks, 2-1, on Sunday evening at Caniglia Field in Omaha, Neb.
Aren’t you proud of me? Not a single mention of Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce…
Oh wait.
Sports!
David Ayres was a hockey hero. Now he’s making a movie his own way
Ayres had once been a promising hockey goalie. But the medical issues ended all that without even a whiff of the minors, and now the Ontario native, living on added but borrowed time, wondered why he should even go on.
Best and worst of college football Week 1
Everyone knows talking trash can get you in some hot water. Not only does it cause a stir, but failing to back it up could lead to plenty of criticism.
Lee Corso was perfect in his final GameDay picks before retirement
As the slate of Week 1 games played out, Corso’s sendoff only got better. All six teams that Corso picked to win this past weekend came out on top, including Florida State
Aaron Judge ties Yogi Berra for 5th on Yankees career home runs list
When Aaron Judge returned to the dugout after his first-inning homer, Yankees manager Aaron Boone yelled “Yogi!” in the direction of his star slugger.
Coco Gauff and Naomi Osaka play each other Monday at the US Open
Gauff, a 21-year-old from Florida, is the Grand Slam tournament’s No. 3 seed. Osaka, a 27-year-old who was born in Japan and moved to the U.S. with her family at age 3, is the No. 23 seed.
Misery Index: Alabama’s woes and why does Deion hate timeouts?
After nearly nine months of slumber, the Misery Index is not only back on the marquee like the old Cracker Barrel logo, we’ve moved to a fancy new neighborhood.
Then There’s This
The vanishing lake in Northern Ireland that mysteriously drains and refills itself within hours
Three streams flow into the lake, but the only exit is a drain at the bottom that frequently gets blocked and unblocked, resulting in dramatic changes in the water level.
The great French fry mystery: My dogged attempt to solve the a baffling whodunit
It was the middle of the night, a Wednesday in early April, when the first bag of A&W french fries was deposited on my neighbour’s porch. Nobody saw who put it there…
99 Problems: The ice cream trucks surprising history
When John Harkins was 5 years old, his parents were called into school by a concerned teacher: “We’ve got a bit of an issue with John,” she told them. His class, she explained, had been learning about colors. “All the other kids were saying brown,” she said. “John’s telling us it’s cola.” The pink, he told them, was “strawberry.” And most worrying of all, he was sure the blue was “raspberry.”
How plants and fungi trade resources without a brain
In 1997, at age 19, Toby Kiers talked her way into the Smithsonian’s renowned tropical research institute on Barro Colorado, an island in the middle of the Panama Canal.
