Hey Everyone,
I want to head back to Lincoln for the Rutgers football and Iowa volleyball games next weekend. My HS VB coach is Virginia Starr and she is being inducted into the Nebraska Sports Hall of Fame that weekend. I want to go back and support her and her family as she receives this tremendous honor. My normal tickets connections are not available that weekend as I just was given permission by my administration to attend he induction.
If anyone has two football and/or two volleyball tickets available that weekend, I would be interested in them. I will be picking up my middle son in Casper Wyoming on the way so he is going to go with me.
I thought I would check with all of you before I try and other possibilities. Thanks in advance for the help!
GBR

Jaguar. OC is Press Taylor, Zac Taylor's younger brother. Lawrence just airmailed a ball to a wide open wide receiver for an interception. Threw it 5 feet over his outstretched arms to Hamlin.

September 23

1779 - John Paul Jones declared "I have not yet begun to fight!" aboard the American warship Bonhomme Richard in the battle against the British man-of-war Serapis.

1780 - British spy John Andre was captured along with papers revealing Benedict Arnold's plot to surrender West Point to the British.

1806 - After a three-year journey to the Pacific Northwest, the Lewis and Clark expedition returned to St. Louis.

1846 - German astronomer Johann Gottfried Galle discovered the planet Neptune.

1939 - Sigmund Freud, the founder of psychoanalysis, died in London.

1952 - Sen. Richard M. Nixon, R-Calif., salvaged his vice presidential nomination by appearing on television from Los Angeles to refute allegations of improper campaign fundraising in what became known as the ''Checkers'' speech for its reference to his family's cocker spaniel.

1955 - A jury in Sumner, Mississippi acquitted two white men, Roy Bryant and J.W. Milam, of killing Black teenager Emmett Till. (The two later admitted to the crime in an interview with Look magazine.)

1957 - Nine Black students who entered Little Rock Central High School in Arkansas were forced to withdraw because of a white mob outside.

1973 - Former Argentine president Juan Peron returned to power.

2002 - Gov. Gray Davis signed a law making California the first state to offer workers paid family leave.

2011 - Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas officially requests a bid for statehood at the U.N. Security Council.

Birthdays
37 - Skylar Astin (actor)
40 - Anneliese Van der Pol (actress)
46 - Anthony Mackie (actor)
47 - Warren Kole (actor)
50 - Matt Hardy (professional wrestler)
63 - Chi McBride (actor)
65 - Jason Alexander (actor)
67 - Rosalind Chao (actress)
75 - Bruce Springsteen (singer)
77 - Mary Kay Place (actress/singer)
81 - Julio Iglesias (singer)

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Today in Sports History - September 23

1845 - The Knickerbocker Base Ball Club of New York was formed by Alexander Joy Cartwright. It was the first baseball team in America.

1926 - In the "upset of the decade," Gene Tunney beats defending champion Jack Dempsey by 10-round unanimous decision in Philadelphia to win the world heavyweight boxing championship.

1952 - Rocky Marciano continues his professional undefeated streak, knocking out world heavyweight champion Jersey Joe Walcott in the 13th round.

1979 - Lou Brock of the St. Louis Cardinals steals the 938th and final base of his career, to establish a new MLB record.

1983 - Steve Carlton of the Philadelphia Phillies becomes the 16th pitcher in MLB history to win 300 games.

1983 - Pitcher Gaylord Perry announces his retirement from baseball at age 45 after a 22-year career.

1984 - San Francisco 49ers quarterback Joe Montana misses his first start in 49 games.

1984 - Sparky Anderson becomes the first MLB manager to win 100 games in both leagues.

1988 - Jose Canseco of the Oakland Athletics becomes the first player in MLB history to hit 40 home runs and steal 40 bases in a season.

1997 - The Seattle Mariners establish a new MLB record by hitting 258 home runs on the season.

2001 - Barry Bonds of the San Francisco Giants hit his 66th home run to tie Sammy Sosa for the second-most home runs in a season in MLB history.

2017 - President Donald Trump withdraws an invitation to the White House for the NBA champion Golden State Warriors after Stephen Curry says he doesn't want to attend.

2018 - New Orleans Saints quarterback Drew Brees becomes the NFL's all-time career completions leader with 6,301, breaking Brett Favre's record.

2018 - Capping a comeback from four back surgeries, Tiger Woods won the Tour Championship in Atlanta, the 80th victory of his PGA Tour career and his first in more than five years.

2022 - Roger Federer played in his final professional match after an illustrious tennis career that included 20 Grand Slam titles.

2022 - Albert Pujols of the St. Louis Cardinals becomes just the fourth player in MLB history to hit 700 career home runs, joining Barry Bonds, Hank Aaron and Babe Ruth.

11:30am CT ABC-TV
#5 Nebraska at #4 Louisville

GO 🌽🏐!

According to the NCAA rulebook,players who wear numbers 50–79 and 90–99 are ineligible receivers. Additionally, IU "tightend" Harrison played earlier in the game with a different number, then without notifying the officials, came back in the game with a different (ineligible) number.

It's shocking how the officials let this game get out of hand.

Via press release:

University of Nebraska men’s basketball coach Fred Hoiberg will undergo a medical procedure this Friday to have his pacemaker replaced. This will be the second pacemaker replacement for Hoiberg, as he previously underwent the procedure in 2014. The pacemaker was originally placed in 2005 when he had open-heart surgery to repair an aortic aneurysm.

Media Note: Hoiberg will be available on Tuesday, Sept. 24, at 1 p.m. as part of his previously announced media availability. That will take place following the football press conference in the Hawks Media Center.

Feels like the secondary is missing him or maybe it is also missing Omar Brown (guy was damn good in run support) and Newsome. Probably a combination of both but the play of Gifford, Hartzog and Buford has been far from impressive.

Do we need to take up a collection, sell plasma, beer cans anything to help buy a decent kicker?

Some injury and status updates via Matt Rhule this afternoon:

Time – 3 p.m. CT
TV – FS1

More info here:

Press release:

The Nebraska softball team will take part in the NFCA Leadoff Classic to open its 2025 campaign, the organization announced on Monday. Competition will take place in Clearwater, Fla., from Feb. 6-9. The last time the Big Red participated in the NFCA Leadoff Classic was in 2010.

NU will open its season on Thursday, Feb. 6 against Tennessee, which qualified for the Super Regionals of last season’s NCAA tournament. That matchup will start at 6 p.m. (CT).

On Friday, Feb. 7, the Huskers will see Southern Miss at 3 p.m. (CT) and Bethune Cookman at 6 p.m. (CT). The Big Red will then face off against Texas Tech on Saturday, Feb. 8 at 2 p.m. (CT) before taking a break on Saturday evening.

Nebraska will compete against Mississippi State in its final game of the tournament at noon (CT) on Sunday, Feb. 9.

Penn State, Northwestern and Iowa will also represent the Big Ten among the 17-team field in Florida.

NU’s 2025 roster features 24 players, including 14 returning letterwinners, six transfers and four freshmen.

Should we leave the B1G?

Saw this posted by @B1G RED RULES in another thread and nobody addressed it. Then watched the Michigan/USC game yesterday and I will admit, I saw some questionable calls/no-calls that seemed to go Michigan's way. It got me wondering if all you guys are right.

If there's something to it, how are we supposed to combat it? If they're doing it to USC, and if they're doing it for a lowly program like Illinois 14 years in, I don't see how it's going to ever change. If we haven't been given the super secret handshake by now, we never will.

Seems the only 2 choices we have are to continue to suck or leave. We left the Big 12 when they were stacking things against us. How is this any different?

I personally don't buy into this theory, for the record.

They just let a 350 lb fat ass catch a TD. Tony White is going nowhere. Getting worked by Illinois staff.

On a positive note, Raiola is so good. GBR let's close this out.

By my calculation(which can be wrong) the Blackshirts have only created one three and out in the last two games combined. I think this is an underrated stat we really need to turn around ASAP. Keeps them on field to long, and keeps our offensive out of rhythm and on the sideline. I came across it when I saw that Hawaii slapped NIU and put up 525+ yards of O and honestly I thought NIU would give them a game with the way they ran the ball on us with decent success.

Watching the Tennessee/Oklahoma game. Watched USC/Michigan. I was very impressed with Raiola against Illinois. He's already one of the best QBs in P4. How would recruits not see that? They should be coming after watching.

I can't help but laugh at Colorado again today. They made a big deal about doing a whiteout at home but Baylor chose to wear their away whites, forcing Colorado to wear their normal home colors. Now, Colorado is in trouble of dropping a close one to Baylor, as a little insult to injury. I love it.

We have now suffered multiple years in a row of losing one score games. And in year two of Rhule we have just seen it happen again. At home. At night. With momentum.

Will this year now be different? Will the Illinois loss prove to be a wake up call and an anomaly as we go on to a 9-3 type season or will it be a harbinger of things to come?

In my opinion this next week will be one of the most important in the Rhule era so far. Can he avoid this season descending into the same mediocrity? Or can he right the ship?

I sure hope it is the latter because if we limp to another 5-7 season he will have a hard time overcoming the narrative that he is just one more failed Husker coach. And I for one just can’t stomach the thought of another “wait till next season” year.

After the d forced a fumble and recovered, the camera kept showing Ty raging at someone. At first I thought it was an intensity kind of thing and then the longer it went on, the more it seemed he was chewing one or more of his teammates out. Any idea what actually took place?