June 22

1815 - Napoleon Bonaparte abdicated his throne for the second time after his defeat at Waterloo.

1870 - The Department of Justice was created.

1874 - Dr. Andrew Still became the first to practice osteopathy.

1940 - During World War II, Adolf Hitler gained a stunning victory as France was forced to sign an armistice eight days after German forces overran Paris.

1941 - Nazi Germany launched Operation Barbarossa, a massive invasion of the Soviet Union.

1943 - W.E.B. DuBois became the first Black member of the National Institute of Letters.

1944 - President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the G.I. Bill of Rights into law.

1945 - The World War II battle for Okinawa ended with an Allied victory.

1969 - Singer-actress Judy Garland died.

1970 - President Richard Nixon signed an extension of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 that lowered the minimum voting age to 18.

1977 - John N. Mitchell became the first former U.S. Attorney General to go to prison as he began serving a sentence for his role in the Watergate cover-up.

1981 - Mark David Chapman pleaded guilty to killing rock star John Lennon. Abolhassan Bani-Sadr was deposed as president of Iran.

1987 - Actor-dancer-singer Fred Astaire died.

1992 - The U.S. Supreme Court, in R.A.V. v. City of St. Paul, unanimously ruled that "hate crime" laws that banned cross burning and similar expressions of racial bias violated free-speech rights.

2011 - Legendary Boston crime boss James "Whitey" Bulger is found and arrested by federal authorities in Santa Monica, California.

2018 - White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders was asked to leave a Virginia restaurant; the co-owner said the move came at the request of gay employees who objected to Sanders' defense of President Donald Trump's effort to bar transgender people from the military.

2018 - The European Union began enforcing tariffs on American imports including bourbon, peanut butter and orange juice, in retaliation for duties the Trump administration imposed on European steel and aluminum.

Birthdays
26 - Dinah Jane (singer)
32 - Jasmine Sanders (model)
38 - John Moreland (singer)
44 - Jai Rodriguez (actor)
47 - Mike O'Brien (actor/comedian)
49 - Alicia Goranson (actress)
49 - Donald Faison (actor)
50 - Carson Daly (TV host)
52 - Mary Lynn Rajskub (actress)
52 - Kurt Warner (football player)
53 - Michael Trucco (actor)
53 - Steven Page (singer)
59 - Dan Brown (author)
59 - Amy Brenneman (actress)
61 - Clyde Drexler (basketball player)
65 - Bruce Campbell (actor)
67 - Tim Russ (actor)
69 - Chris Lemmon (actor)
70 - Cyndi Lauper (singer)
71 - Graham Greene (actor)
74 - Alan Osmond (singer)
74 - Lindsay Wagner (actress)
74 - Meryl Streep (actress)
79 - Peter Asher (singer)
80 - Brit Hume (broadcast journalist)
87 - Kris Kristofferson (singer/actor)
91 - Prunella Scales (actress)

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Today in Sports History - June 22

1937 - Joe Louis began his reign as world heavyweight boxing champion by knocking out Jim Braddock in the eighth round of their fight in Chicago.

1938 - Joe Louis records a stunning first round knockout of German Max Schmeling at Yankee Stadium to retain his world heavyweight title.

1979 - Former World Hockey Association franchises the Edmonton Oilers, Hartford Whalers, Quebec Nordiques and Winnipeg Jets joined the NHL, giving the league 21 teams.

1994 - The Houston Rockets defeat the New York Knicks in seven games to win the NBA championship.

1994 - The United States defeats Colombia 2-1 to record their first win in the men's World Cup soccer tournament since 1950.

1999 - In a major upset at Wimbledon, top-ranked Martina Hingis lost in the opening round to Jelena Dokic, a 16-year-old qualifier ranked 129th.

2003 - Michelle Wie won her first USGA title at the age of 13. She was the youngest person to win any adult USGA event.

2016 - The National Hockey League's Board of Governors voted unanimously to expand to 31 teams. An expansion team in Las Vegas was added and planned to begin play in the 2017-18 season.

OK. I know we've got a few sports media experts out there. Can we get a complete guide for college football on TV posted? I'm especially interested in the lesser known network agreements including streaming networks like Peacock, etc. I've dumped ESPN & cable TV/YouTube TV for the time being and I might keep it that way for a while.

The Huskers added another piece for the 2024 season with the addition of D2 OF transfer Clay Bradford.

Playing at St. Mary’s in Texas, Bradford hit .419 this last spring with 14 HRs and 54 RBI in 52 GP. He’s also a LHP who recorded a 7.69 ERA in 52.2 IP. He’ll have one season of eligibility.

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Nebraska baseball landed another 2023 pitcher with the commitment of Tyner Horn.

A former Wichita State commit, the Huskers fought off the likes of Kansas State and Indiana. Also had some interest from Vanderbilt and Arkansas.

The 6-foot-1 Horn has a fastball sitting at 90-94 and was rated a 9/10 by Perfect Game. On that scale PG rates him with potential to be drafted inside the top ten rounds of the MLB draft.

Horn joins Brooks Kneifl for the two commits. Very good day for Will Bolt and company. Pretty good arms coming to Lincoln in the fall.

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Now that Huggins has been forced to resign is there any chance we get back door access to a certain PG from Arizona?

Good stuff from a trio of Huskers today, including CJ Wilcher, Jamarques Lawrence and Rienk Mast:

Callen Barta is fired up to be a Husker.

"Dwight told me like he's from Miami, Florida. He told me he made that commitment and he doesn't regret it at all," Barta said. He said it's a home away from home and I really did believe that. Because I could feel it too and I was only down there for two days. I felt like a part of the team."

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Where are my internet sleuths, I just read an article saying Saunders got a CB to Kentucky? Maybe I’m late to the party on this. I didn’t even realize he was considering them, but then I don’t really research it much.

Had a chance to talk with the newest commitment of the 2025 class for the Huskers. Hit the link.

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Was able to confirm that the Hawaii iOL was on campus the last two days. Just another intriguing OL to add to the list.

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June 20

1756 - British soldiers were thrown into the cell known as the "Black Hole of Calcutta."

1782 - The Great Seal of the United States was adopted.

1819 - The 320-ton Savannah became the first steamship to cross the Atlantic.

1837 - Queen Victoria ascended the British throne following the death of her uncle, King William IV.

1863 - West Virginia became the 35th state.

1893 - Lizzie Borden, accused of murdering her parents, was found innocent by a jury in New Bedford, Massachusetts.

1943 - Race-related rioting erupted in Detroit; federal troops were sent in two days later to quell the violence that resulted in more than 30 deaths.

1944 - During World War II, Japanese naval forces retreated in the Battle of the Philippine Sea after suffering heavy losses to the victorious American fleet.

1947 - Gangster Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel was shot dead at the Beverly Hills, California home of his girlfriend, Virginia Hill, apparently at the order of mob associates.

1972 - Three days after the arrest of the Watergate burglars, President Richard Nixon met at the White House with his chief of staff, H.R. Haldeman; the secretly made tape recording of this meeting ended up with the notorious 18 1/2 minute gap.

1990 - South African Black nationalist Nelson Mandela and his wife, Winnie, arrived in New York City for a ticker-tape parade in their honor as they began an eight-city U.S. tour.

2013 - Lightning began sparking more than 2,000 fires across northern and central California, eventually burning more than one million acres.

2013 - Model Naomi Campbell was sentenced in London to 200 hours of community service and fined $4,600 after she pleaded guilty to kicking, spitting and swearing at two police officers during an argument over lost luggage while aboard a plane at Heathrow Airport.

2014 - The Obama administration granted an array of new benefits to same-sex couples, including those living in states where gay marriage was against the law; the new measures ranged from Social Security and veterans benefits to work leave for caring for sick spouses.

2016 - A divided U.S. Supreme Court ruled 5-3 that evidence of a crime in some cases may be used against a defendant even if the police did something wrong or illegal in obtaining it.

2018 - President Donald Trump abruptly reversed himself and signed an executive order halting his administration's policy of separating children from their parents when they are detained illegally crossing the border; Trump had been insisting wrongly that there was no alternative to the policy because of federal law and a court decision.

2018 - The Vatican announced that Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, the retired Roman Catholic archbishop of Washington, D.C., had been removed from public ministry and would face further punishment over "credible" allegations that he sexually abused a teenager more than 40 years earlier. (Pope Francis accepted McCarrick's resignation as a cardinal on July 28.)

2022 - The nation's youngest children got their first chance at vaccines for COVID-19. Roughly 18 million kids under 5 became eligible, and shots began at a few locations.

Birthdays
24 - Mckenzie Small (actress)
26 - Maria Lark (actress)
28 - Serayah McNeill (actress)
34 - Chris Mintz-Plasse (actor)
37 - Dreama Walker (actress)
38 - Mark Saul (actor)
41 - April Ross (volleyball player)
42 - Alisan Porter (actress/singer)
43 - Tika Sumpter (actress)
52 - Josh Lucas (actor)
54 - Peter Paige (actor)
56 - Nicole Kidman (actress)
69 - Michael Anthony (musician)
71 - John Goodman (actor)
74 - Lionel Richie (singer)
76 - Candy Clark (actress)
77 - Bob Vila (TV host)
78 - Anne Murray (singer)
80 - John McCook (actor)
81 - Brian Wilson (singer)
92 - James Tolkan (actor)
94 - Bonnie Bartlett (actress)

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Today in Sports History - June 20

1912 - The New York Giants and the Boston Braves combined for 17 runs in the ninth inning. The Giants scored 7 to the Braves' 10 runs. The Giants won the game 21-12.

1950 - Willie Mays graduated from high school and immediately signed with the New York Giants.

1960 - Floyd Patterson knocked out Ingemar Johansson to become the first heavyweight fighter to regain his own crown.

1967 - Muhammad Ali was convicted of violating Selective Service laws by refusing to be drafted and was sentenced to five years in prison. (Ali's conviction was later overturned by the U.S. Supreme Court.)

1980 - Robert Duran won a fifteen-round decision over Sugar Ray Leonard. It was the first defeat in twenty-eight professional fights for Leonard.

1993 - The Chicago Bulls defeated the Phoenix Suns in six games to win a third consecutive NBA championship.

1998 - Sammy Sosa (Chicago Cubs) hit two home runs for the second straight game. The feat set a major league baseball record of 16 home runs in June.

1999 - The Dallas Stars won their first Stanley Cup, defeating the Buffalo Sabres in six games.

2001 - Barry Bonds (San Francisco Giants) hit his 38th home run of the season. The home run broke the major league baseball record for homers before the midseason All-Star break.

2002 - Luis Castillo (Florida Marlins) set a major league record for second basemen when he got a hit in his 34th straight game.

2004 - Ken Griffey Jr. of the Cincinnati Reds hit his 500th career home run.

2006 - The Miami Heat defeat the Dallas Mavericks in six games to win their first NBA championship.

2007 - Sammy Sosa of the Texas Rangers recorded his 600th career home run.

2013 - The Miami Heat defeat the San Antonio Spurs in seven games to win a second consecutive NBA championship.

2019 - Duke forward Zion Williamson is taken with the first pick in the NBA Draft by the New Orleans Pelicans.

Could the next 4 commits be from Nebraska? Jones, burt, mcmorris, and hall?

2024 SF Amiah Hargrove committed to Nebraska Wednesday evening. Hargrove is one of the highest rated players out of Illinois in the ‘24 class. She averaged 25 points and nine rebounds per game this last season at Christopher High School.

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Three-star OL Landen Davidson of Broomfield, Colorado is N.

that's it. That's the message

Johansson Named B1G Field Athlete of the Year
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Nebraska thrower Axelina Johansson was named the Big Ten Women's Field Athlete of the Year on Tuesday after a vote by the league's head coaches.

The honor adds to Johansson's impressive haul of accomplishments during the outdoor season, as she already had been named Big Ten Women's Field Athlete of the Championships and USTFCCCA Midwest Region Women's Field Athlete of the Year. Johansson is just Nebraska's second Big Ten Women's Field Athlete of the Year winner, joining Mara Griva in 2013.

Johansson, a sophomore from Hok, Sweden, won the NCAA shot put national title with a mark of 63-3 1/4 (19.28m). She put on a dominating display at the NCAA Outdoor Championships in Austin, Texas, as each of her six throws would have won her the NCAA gold medal. Johansson became the third Husker female to win an NCAA shot put title.

She won the Big Ten shot put title with a personal best and meet record 64-1 1/4 (19.54m). Johansson's throw was a Nebraska school record and a Swedish national record. It was also the top mark in the NCAA this season, the No. 2 throw in NCAA outdoor history and the No. 7 throw in the world in 2023. Johansson swept the Big Ten indoor and outdoor shot put titles this season, and she was the NCAA indoor runner-up in March.

Great press conference today as we heard from both Jordy Bahl and softball head coach Rhonda Revelle. Hit the link.

June 21

Today is the first day of summer.

1377 - King Edward III died after ruling England for 50 years; he was succeeded by his grandson, Richard II.

1527 - Italian statesman, diplomat and author of "The Prince," Niccolo Machiavelli died.

1788 - The U.S. Constitution went into effect when New Hampshire became the ninth state to ratify it.

1834 - Cyrus McCormick received a patent for a mechanical reaper.

1942 - An Imperial Japanese submarine fired shells at Fort Stevens on the Oregon coast, causing little damage.

1954 - The American Cancer Society presented a study to the American Medical Association meeting in San Francisco which found that men who regularly smoked cigarettes died at a considerably higher rate than non-smokers.

1964 - Three civil rights workers -- James E. Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner -- disappeared in Philadelphia, Mississippi. (Their bodies were found in an earthen dam six weeks later; in 2005, 41 years after their disappearance, Edgar Killen, an 80-year-old former Ku Klux Klansman, was convicted of their murders and sentenced to 60 years in prison, where he died in January 2018.)

1973 - The U.S. Supreme Court, in Miller v. California, ruled that states may ban materials found to be obscene according to local standards.

1977 - Menachem Begin of the Likud bloc became Israel's sixth prime minister.

1982 - John Hinckley was found not guilty by reason of insanity for the attempted murder of President Ronald Reagan.

1989 - A sharply divided U.S. Supreme Court ruled that burning the U.S. flag was protected as a form of political protest under the First Amendment.

2004 - Michael Melvill pilots the first privately-developed spacecraft, SpaceShipOne, into space.

2010 - Faisal Shahzad, a Pakistan-born U.S. citizen, pleaded guilty to charges of plotting a failed car bombing in New York's Times Square. (Shahzad was later sentenced to life in prison.)

2011 - The Food and Drug Administration announced that cigarette packs in the U.S. would have to carry macabre images that included rotting teeth and gums, diseased lungs and a sewn-up corpse of a smoker as part of a graphic campaign aimed at discouraging Americans from lighting up.

2013 - A one-page criminal complaint unsealed in federal court accused former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden of espionage and theft of government property in the NSA surveillance case.

2013 - President Barack Obama nominated James Comey, a top Bush-era Justice official, to head the FBI, succeeding Robert Mueller.

2013 - The Food Network said it was dropping Paula Deen, barely an hour after the celebrity cook posted the first of two videotaped apologies online begging forgiveness from fans and critics troubled by her admission to having used racial slurs in the past.

2018 - Pulitzer Prize-winning conservative columnist and pundit Charles Krauthammer died at 68; he had said a year earlier that he was being treated for a tumor in his abdomen.

2022 - Jozef Walaszczyk, a member of the Polish resistance who rescued dozens of Jews during the Nazi German occupation of Poland during World War II, died at age 102.

Birthdays
24 - Kylee Renee (singer)
24 - Natalie Alyn Lind (actress)
26 - Rebecca Black (singer)
28 - Faye Winter (reality star)
34 - Jascha Washington (actor)
38 - Lana Del Rey (singer)
38 - Kris Allen (singer)
39 - Jessica White (model)
40 - Michael Malarkey (actor)
41 - Benjamin Walker (actor)
41 - Prince William (member of British royal family)
42 - Brandon Flowers (singer)
44 - Chris Pratt (actor)
49 - Maggie Siff (actress)
50 - Juliette Lewis (actress)
51 - Allison Moorer (actress)
56 - Carrie Preston (actress)
58 - Michael Dolan (actor)
59 - Doug Savant (actor)
59 - Sammi Davis (actor)
61 - Marc Copage (actor)
64 - Kathy Mattea (singer)
65 - Josh Pais (actor)
68 - Leigh McCloskey (actress)
71 - Robyn Douglass (actress)
76 - Michael Gross (actor)
76 - Meredith Baxter (actress)
82 - Joe Flaherty (comedian)
83 - Mariette Hartley (actress)
88 - Monte Markham (actor)
90 - Bernie Kopell (actor)

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Today in Sports History - June 21

1932 - Heavyweight boxer Max Schmeling lost a title fight by decision to Jack Sharkey. Schmeling's manager, Joe Jacobs, exclaimed "We was robbed!"

1939 - Lou Gehrig quit baseball due to illness.

1942 - Ben Hogan recorded the lowest score (to that time) in a major golf tournament. Hogan shot a 271 for 72 holes in Chicago.

1964 - Jim Bunning of the Philadelphia Phillies throws a perfect game in a 6-0 win over the New York Mets.

1970 - Brazil defeats Italy 4-1 to win its third World Cup championship in front of more than 107,000 fans in Mexico City.

1970 - Tony Jacklin became the second British golfer in 50 years to win the U.S. Open golf tournament.

1986 - Heisman Trophy winner Bo Jackson signs a three-year contract to play baseball with the Kansas City Royals.

1988 - The Los Angeles Lakers defeat the Detroit Pistons in seven games to win the NBA championship.

1991 - Denis Potvin and Mike Bossy are elected to the Hockey Hall of Fame.

1994 - German tennis superstar Steffi Graf becomes the first defending champion to lose in the first round of a major, falling to American Lorrie McNeal at Wimbledon.

1997 - The WNBA made its debut as the New York Liberty defeated the Los Angeles Sparks 67-57 in the inaugural game. The six other charter franchises included the Charlotte Sting, Cleveland Rockers, Houston Comets, Phoenix Mercury, Sacramento Monarchs and the Utah Starzz.

2012 - The Miami Heat defeat the Oklahoma City Thunder in five games to win the NBA championship.

2015 - Jordan Spieth, at age 21, becomes the youngest U.S. Open winner since 1923.

I’m not excited at all about the recruiting class thus far. There’s not a single guy in the class that I could convince myself could end up being an all conference caliber player. If you disagree, tell me who could be? Hopeful that we become transfer U after a winning season.

More recruiting news in today’s HHU. Hit the link.

Just curious, was the Dayton Raiola offer one really because of his upside or a sweetener to get Dylan? Now that Dylan is gone, does the offer still hold?

Man so tragic.