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Recruiting Huskers now have their 3rd All-American Bowl honoree in last two classes

Texas 2024 OL Gibson Pyle has been invited to the All-American Bowl in San Antonio. He's the third Husker commit in the last two classes to receive an invite to the all-star showcase (2023 WR Malachi Coleman and 2024 TE Carter Nelson)

2023 DE Cam Lenhardt and DB Ethan Nation were Under Armour All-America Game invites last year as well.

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Recruiting Gibson Pyle reacts to becoming latest Husker invited to All-American Bowl

Good chat with Pyle who becomes the third Husker commit in the 2023 and 2024 recruiting classes to be invited to the All-American Bowl joining '24 Carter Nelson and '23 signee Malachi Coleman.

OT: just made a very tasty lunch item

just some great sourdough bread, with pesto spread on top
then a few pieces of thinly sliced cajun turkey
topped with pepper-jack, provolone, and cheddar cheese.
toasted under broiler till cheese melted

enjoy with your favorite beverage and a piece of fruit. 😋😎

(just a little public service announcement between commits. @Greg Smith - i'm looking at you my Brother 🤨😎)

Football Mailbag: Season expectations if Jeff Sims goes down, peek behind the curtain of official visits

The latest mailbag is here. Take a look with the link below.

I’m looking for some more questions for the month of July. You can go ahead and submit those in this thread, or I’ll do another call for questions early next week.

Football Nebraska Opponent Summer Series

We've previewed the Huskers' 2023 schedule by posing three questions to the beat writers for each of their opponents. That series is now wrapped up today.

Minnesota
Colorado
Louisiana Tech
Michigan
Illinois
Northwestern
Purdue
Michigan State
Maryland
Wisconsin
Iowa


Programming note: I'm skipping Northern Illinois. I reached out to four different writers who cover NIU, all of whom declined to participate or never responded to my request.

Minnesota:

Colorado:

Louisiana Tech:

Michigan:

Illinois:

Northwestern:

Purdue:

Michigan State:

Maryland:

Wisconsin:

Iowa:

Recruiting Huskers get walk-on commitment from Stromsburg FB Izaac Dickey

Stromsburg (Neb.) Cross County fullback Izaac Dickey has committed to the Huskers as a preferred walk-on. Dickey was the first FB Nebraska hosted in the spring, and he told @Greg Smith about how impactful that visit was in March:

"It was amazing! I got to talk to Coach Barthel a ton about what he is looking for in a fullback. I definitely want to get back on campus as soon as possible. The environment that this coaching staff has brought to Lincoln is truly something special."

Dickey felt very strongly about the potential to fill a position that has such rich history in Lincoln:

"It’s honestly crazy to think about," Dickey said. "There hasn’t been a true fullback recruited since the late 1900s. To be the first one back on campus makes me hold my head high for a position that hasn’t seen the light of day in a long time. Now i’ve just got to prove to the coaches that i’ve got what it takes to bring the fullback back."

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Football Princewill Umanmielen: “I didn’t come here to just sit on the bench”

“Keep getting one-percent better every day. Can’t be satisfied, can’t be lazy.”

Good stuff from Princewill Umanmielen during a recent interview with Huskers Radio Network. Here's more:

Today in History - July 8

July 8

1776 - Col. John Nixon gave the first public reading of the Declaration of Independence was given in Philadelphia.

1777 - Vermont becomes the first American colony to abolish slavery.

1853 - An expedition led by Commodore Matthew Perry arrived in Yedo Bay, Japan, on a mission to seek diplomatic and trade relations with the Japanese.

1889 - The Wall Street Journal began publication.

1947 - A New Mexico newspaper, the Roswell Daily Record, quoted officials at Roswell Army Air Field as saying they had recovered a "flying saucer" that crashed onto a ranch; officials then said it was actually a weather balloon.

1950 - Gen. Douglas MacArthur was named commander-in-chief of United Nations forces in Korea.

1958 - The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) awarded the first official gold album; it was for the soundtrack to the musical "Oklahoma!"

1973 - The Nixon administration announced a deal to sell $750 million in grain to the Soviet Union. (However, the Soviets were also engaged in secretly buying subsidized American grain, resulting in what critics dubbed "The Great Grain Robbery.")

1986 - Kurt Waldheim was inaugurated as president of Austria.

1989 - Carlos Saul Menem was inaugurated as president of Argentina in the country's first transfer of power from one democratically elected civilian leader to another in six decades.

1994 - Kim Il Sung, North Korea's communist leader since 1948, died at age 82.

2010 - The largest spy swap between the U.S. and Russia since the Cold War unfolded as 10 people accused of spying in suburban America pleaded guilty to conspiracy and were ordered deported to Russia in exchange for the release of four prisoners accused of spying for the West.

2011 - The space shuttle Atlantis launches into space for the last time from the Kennedy Space Center. It is the 135th and final flight of the space shuttle program, which started in 1981.

2011 - Former first lady Betty Ford died in Rancho Mirage, California, at age 93.

2016 - On the first day of a two-day summit in Warsaw, NATO leaders geared up for a long-term standoff with Russia, ordering multinational troops to Poland and the three Baltic states as Moscow moved forward with its own plans to station two new divisions along its western borders.

2018 - Divers rescued four of the 12 boys who'd been trapped in a flooded cave in northern Thailand with their soccer coach for more than two weeks. (The remaining eight boys and their coach were rescued over the next two days.) Actor and singer Tab Hunter died at the age of 86.

2022 - Former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was assassinated on a street in western Japan by a gunman who opened fire on him from behind as he delivered a campaign speech — an attack that stunned a nation with some of the strictest gun control laws anywhere. The 67-year-old Abe was Japan's longest-serving leader when he resigned in 2020.

Birthdays
22 - Riele Downs (actress)
25 - Jaden Smith (actor)
25 - Maya Hawke (actress)
30 - Aimee Kelly (actress)
35 - Liz Katz (model)
37 - Jake McDorman (actor)
41 - Sophia Bush (actress)
42 - Lance Gross (actor)
44 - Ben Jelen (singer)
50 - Kathleen Robertson (actress)
53 - Beck (singer)
55 - Michael Weatherly (actor)
55 - Billy Crudup (actor)
56 - Michael B. Silver (actor)
58 - Corey Parker (actor)
60 - Rocky Carroll (actor)
61 - Joan Osborne (singer)
62 - Toby Keith (singer)
64 - Robert Knepper (actor)
65 - Kevin Bacon (actor)
72 - Anjelica Huston (actress)
74 - Wolfgang Puck (chef)
75 - Jonelle Allen (actress)
76 - Kim Darby (actress)
79 - Jeffrey Tambor (actor)
88 - Steve Lawrence (singer)

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Today in Sports History - July 8

1889 - John L. Sullivan defeated Jake Kilrain, in the last championship bare-knuckle fight. The fight lasted 75 rounds.

1953 - Notre Dame announced that the next five years of its football games would be shown in theatres over closed circuit TV.

1970 - The Jim Ray Hart (San Francisco Giants) became the first National League player in 59 seasons to collect six runs batted (RBI) during a single inning.

1990 - West Germany defeats Argentina 1-0 to win the World Cup.

2000 - Venus Williams beat Lindsay Davenport for her first Grand Slam title, becoming the first Black female champion at Wimbledon since Althea Gibson in 1958.

2003 - Dominik Hasek announced that he planned to come out of retirement and rejoin the Detroit Red Wings.

2014 - Germany defeats Brazil in a record 7-1 rout in the semifinals of the World Cup.

2015 - The NFL's Washington Redskins have their trademark vacated on the grounds it may cause offence to native Americans.
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