Kid would look good in red, but probably made a good choice for himself. Once a Husker.....

....wins by the Chiefs, over the donkeys.

The difference in Nash Hutmacher from last year is astounding. They must have bonded from Day 1. Not only Nash our D-Line is nasty like we have not seen since the Peter boys. Terrance Knighton along with Rob Dvoracek have returned Nebraska to a team that takes hard work to move the ball against.

October 14
1066 - The Normans, under William the Conqueror, defeated the English at the Battle of Hastings.

1586 - Mary, Queen of Scots, went on trial in England, accused of committing treason against Queen Elizabeth I. (Mary was beheaded in February 1587.)

1933 - Nazi Germany withdrew from the Geneva disarmament conference and the League of Nations.

1939 - A German U-boat torpedoed and sank the HMS Royal Oak, a British battleship anchored at Scapa Flow in Scotland's Orkney Islands; 833 of the more than 1,200 men aboard were killed.

1944 - German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel took his own life rather than face trial and certain execution for allegedly conspiring against Adolf Hitler.

1947 - U.S. Air Force Capt. Chuck Yeager became the first test pilot to break the sound barrier as he flew the experimental Bell XS-1 rocket plane over Muroc Dry Lake in California.

1964 - Martin Luther King Jr. was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his work in civil rights.

1964 - Soviet leader Nikita S. Khrushchev was toppled from power; he was succeeded by Leonid Brezhnev as First Secretary and by Alexei Kosygin as Premier.

1968 - The first live telecast from a staffed U.S. spacecraft was transmitted from Apollo 7.

1990 - Composer-conductor Leonard Bernstein died in New York City at age 72.

2008 - A grand jury in Orlando, Fla. returned charges of first-degree murder, aggravated child abuse and aggravated manslaughter against Casey Anthony in the death of her 2-year-old daughter, Caylee. (She was acquitted in July 2011.)

2012 - Retired Air Force Brig. Gen. Chuck Yeager, at the age of 89, marked the 65th anniversary of his supersonic flight by smashing through the sound barrier again, this time in the backseat of an F-15 which took off from Nellis Air Force Base in Nevada.

2016 - A judge in Connecticut dismissed a wrongful-death lawsuit by Newtown families against the maker of the rifle used in the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting massacre, citing a federal law that shielded gun manufacturers from most lawsuits over criminal use of their products.

2017 - A truck bombing in Somalia's capital killed more than 500 people in one of the world's deadliest attacks in years.

2018 - Saudi Arabia threatened to retaliate for any sanctions imposed on it over the disappearance and suspected murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi.

2021 - 78-year-old New York real estate heir Robert Durst was sentenced in Los Angeles to life in prison without a chance of parole for the murder of a friend, Susan Berman, more than two decades earlier. (Durst died in prison two months later.)

Birthdays
22 - Rowan Blanchard (actress)
29 - Jared Goff (football player)
35 - Max Thieriot (actor)
36 - Jay Pharoah (actor/comedian)
37 - Skyler Shaye (actress)
42 - Jordan Brower (actor)
43 - Ben Whishaw (actor)
44 - Stacy Keibler (model/professional wrestler)
45 - Usher (singer)
47 - Stephen Hill (actor)
49 - Natalie Maines (singer)
53 - Jon Seda (actor)
56 - Stephen A. Smith (TV/radio host)
57 - Edward Kerr (actor)
58 - Karyn White (singer)
58 - Steve Coogan (actor)
59 - Joe Girardi (baseball player)
60 - Lori Petty (actress)
83 - Cliff Richard (singer)
84 - Ralph Lauren (fashion designer)

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Today in Sports History - October 14
1905 - The New York Giants defeat the Philadelphia Athletics in five games to win the World Series.

1906 - The Chicago White Sox defeat the Chicago Cubs in six games to win the World Series.

1908 - The Chicago Cubs defeat the Detroit Tigers in five games to win the World Series.

1908 - Upset over seating arrangements at the World Series, sports reporters form a professional group that would become the Baseball Writers Association of America (BWAA).

1926 - Legendary pitcher Walter Johnson announces his retirement.

1929 - The Philadelphia Athletics defeat the Chicago Cubs in five games to win the World Series.

1962 - George Blanda of the Houston Oilers throws six touchdown passes in a 56-17 rout of the New York Titans.

1965 - The Los Angeles Dodgers defeat the Minnesota Twins in seven games to win the World Series.

1979 - Wayne Gretzky scores his first career NHL goal.

1984 - The Detroit Tigers defeat the San Diego Padres in five games to win the World Series.

1985 - The New York Jets retire Joe Namath's #12.

2003 - Fan Steve Bartman deflects ball away from Chicago Cubs outfielder Moises Alou; Cubs would give up eight runs in the inning and lose to the Florida Marlins, 8-3, and the Bartman incident is seen as a turning point in the series.

2020 - The NFL cancels the Pro Bowl due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

A weird night for the Huskers, but it's a win nonetheless. Hit the link.

I'm back at the Devaney Center for the first time in three weeks as No. 2 Nebraska hosts Michigan State after a four-game road trip. It'll be the second time in the last week that NU has faced the Spartans as the Huskers took care of MSU last Friday in a four-set win. First serve is set for 6 p.m. with TV coverage on Nebraska Public Media.

That included Nebraska's worst set of the season in a 25-16 set two loss to Michigan State. Here's that recap to get a sense of this Spartan team.


And here's my weekend preview as Nebraska hosts the Spartans tonight and then NU renews a classic college volleyball rivalry with a 7 p.m. match versus No. 13 Penn State Saturday night.


Here is head coach John Cook's weekly What We Learned as he challenged his team's serving and gave his thoughts on Lindsay Krause's hot four-game stretch.


Finally, the Players' Corner featuring Bekka Allick and Lindsay Krause. This was probably one of the best player availabilities in a while as both Allick and Krause gave a great insight into the pulse of the team right now.

Across the country here:

Looking for score update/highlights

Personally, never found “slasher” movies frightening (more comical).

My favorite run along the line of, The Hills Have Eyes, Rosemarys Baby, The Omen, The Shining, and the like.

What say you….






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We are on our 2nd string QB… probably further down if we didn’t have a couple guys transfer.

3rd string RB

We are dipping well into our 3 string to rotation at WR.

The most talented TE was ruled ineligible and then broke into a smoke shop.

Our Oline leaks more than the Russian Navy

And we are 3-3….. I would be shocked if we make a bowl game, and if we do Rhule should be up for Big Ten Coach of the year

Coaching... The staff that HCMR has put together has continued to impress me. If this staff continues as one I am sure that we will see vast improvement in years 2 and 3. Not only is Rhule a developer of talent with the players he seems to be a great judge of coaches and is a leader that many want to learn from... That also includes our OL coach. The coaches coach hard and the players play hard... Big upgrade...

Watching the Buford v. Mill Creek high school game. First, it looks like a college game. I would bet ALL the guys starting in this game will play college football and a lot of them are top D1 commits already. Different world of high school football that I recall.

Second, Dylan Raiola looks good, but was shocked to see Dayton when he came into the game. Dylan had his helmet pulled off, so he had to sit out a play. Dayton was the backup. Wow, maturity definitely kicked in. He looks completely different from many pictures of him on previous UNL trips. Will be interesting to see how he develops.

Matt Rhule took in the scenes at Ainsworth today while seeing 2024 four-start TE commit Carter Nelson:

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And wants to do me a huge copy/paste favor? I’m too cheap for the $1 trial and their paywall is impenetrable unlike the ones for Omaha World Herald and Lincoln Journal Star.

SUCK. They’d be entirely dead in the water without Kelce. They need to trade for someone NOW.

Fortunately, the donks are really bad.

Maurice Washington? Played well as a junior last year at Grambling. Don't see him on a roster this year.

Challenging weekend ahead for the Huskers starting tonight against MSU at 6 p.m. Hit the link.

Looking for decent tickets to the Northwestern game

If you could flip one kid while basing this off your interactions with them, which one would you most realistically like to see happen and why.

Who are you got against the spread? (KC -6.5 seems really light)

On a sidenote…National anthem…

A train-wreck to look at…but a damn good rendition IMO.




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October 13
1775 - The U.S. Navy was founded as the Continental Congress authorized the construction of a naval fleet.

1792 - The cornerstone of the executive mansion, later known as the White House, was laid by President George Washington during a ceremony in the District of Columbia.

1932 - President Herbert Hoover and Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes laid the cornerstone for the U.S. Supreme Court building in Washington.

1843 - The Jewish organization B'nai B'rith was founded.

1943 - Italy declared war on its former Axis partner Germany during World War II.

1972 - A Uruguayan chartered flight carrying 45 people crashed in the Andes; survivors resorted to feeding off the remains of some of the dead in order to stay alive until they were rescued more than two months later.

1974 - Famed talk show host Ed Sullivan died in New York City at age 72.

1981 - Egyptian vice president Hosni Mubarak was elected president, one week after Anwar Sadat's assassination.

1999 - In Boulder, Colorado, the JonBenet Ramsey grand jury was dismissed after 13 months of work with prosecutors saying there wasn't enough evidence to charge anyone in the 6-year-old beauty queen's slaying.

2003 - The U.N. Security Council approved a resolution expanding the NATO-led peacekeeping force in Afghanistan.

2007 - Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, after meeting with human-rights activists in Moscow, told reporters the Russian government under Vladimir Putin had amassed so much central authority that the power-grab could undermine its commitment to democracy.

2010 - Rescuers in Chile using a missile-like escape capsule pulled 33 men one by one to fresh air and freedom 69 days after they were trapped in a collapsed mine a half-mile underground.

2011 - Raj Rajaratnam, the hedge fund billionaire at the center of one of the biggest insider-trading cases in U.S. history, was sentenced by a federal judge in New York to 11 years behind bars.

2016 - Bob Dylan was named winner of the Nobel prize in literature.

2017 - President Donald Trump accused Iran of violating the 2015 nuclear accord, but did not yet pull the U.S. out of the deal or re-impose nuclear sanctions. (Trump would pull the U.S. out of the deal the following May and restore harsh sanctions.)

2021 - U.S. officials said they would reopen land borders to nonessential travel starting in November, ending a 19-month freeze because of the coronavirus pandemic.

2022 - The House Jan. 6 committee voted unanimously to subpoena Donald Trump, demanding the former president's personal testimony as it unveiled startling new video from his closest aides describing his multi-part plan to overturn his 2020 election loss.

Birthdays
22 - Caleb McLaughlin (actor)
32 - Pretty Vee (actress/model)
34 - Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (politician)
41 - Ian Thorpe (swimmer)
43 - Lumidee (singer)
43 - Ashanti (singer)
46 - Paul Pierce (basketball player)
52 - Sacha Baron Cohen (actor)
52 - Billy Bush (TV personality)
54 - Rhett Atkins (singer)
54 - Nancy Kerrigan (figure skater)
55 - Tisha Campbell (actress)
56 - Kate Walsh (actress)
58 - Reginald Ballard (actor)
59 - Matt Walsh (actor)
59 - Christopher Judge (actor)
61 - Jerry Rice (football player)
62 - Doc Rivers (basketball coach)
64 - Marie Osmond (singer/TV personality)
66 - Reggie Theus (actor/basketball player)
71 - Beverly Johnson (model)
71 - John Lone (actor)
76 - Sammy Hagar (singer)
77 - Demond Wilson (actor)
77 - Lacy J. Dalton (singer)
82 - Paul Simon (singer)

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Today in Sports History - October 13
1903 - The Boston Red Sox defeated the Pittsburgh Pirates to win the first World Series.

1914 - The Boston Braves defeat the Philadelphia Athletics in four games to win the World Series.

1915 - The Boston Red Sox defeat the Philadelphia Phillies in five games to win the World Series.

1921 - The New York Giants defeat the New York Yankees in eight games to win the World Series.

1951 - In Atlanta, GA, a football with a rubber covering was used for the first time. Georgia Tech beat LSU 25-7.

1960 - The Pittsburgh Pirates defeated the New York Yankees 10-9 with a walk-off home run in Game 7 to win the World Series.

1967 - The first game of the new American Basketball Association was played with the Oakland Oaks defeating the Anaheim Amigos 132-129. The ABA featured the introduction of a red-white-and-blue colored basketball and the 3-point field goal.

1967 - The Seattle SuperSonics made their NBA debut with a 144-116 loss to the San Francisco Warriors.

1971 - The first World Series night game was telecast on NBC. Baltimore defeated Pittsburgh 4-3 in Game 4 at Three Rivers Stadium.

1985 - Phil Simms (New York Giants) passed for 513 yards against the Cincinnati Bengals. He set NFL records with 62 pass attempts and 29 first downs.

1996 - Kicker Nick Lowrey of the New York Jets breaks Jan Stenerud's NFL record with his 374th career field goal.

1998 - The Pittsburgh Penguins filed for federal Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection for the second time in their history.

1998 - The NBA canceled regular season games, due to work stoppage, for first time in its 51-year history.

2002 - The Anaheim Angels defeated the Minnesota Twins to advance to their first World Series.

2019 - American gymnast Simone Biles becomes the most decorated gymnast in history after winning her 25th career medal at the World Championships in Stuttgart, Germany.

This was hilarious, especially seeing Team White eat their dinner.

Team White won the opening game of the Red-White series 7-3, but dropped back-to-back games to Team Red by scores of 4-2 and 9-4. Nebraska also won its two fall exhibition with an 18-10 victory over Omaha and a 22-2 win against Cloud County CC.

I’ll have more on Fall Ball next week.

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