Huskers seem pretty excited to take on the Boilermakers this weekend as Purdue played a heavy hand in denying NU a spot in the conference tournament last season. Hit the link.

I always had appreciation for his time here, and I hope that chip on his shoulder pays off for him as he continues his career...

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Lock in another Texas defender coming up for an official visit next month. Bay City (Texas) defensive lineman Carlon Jones will be in Lincoln June 2-June 4. He told me that he is looking forward to seeing the environment on and around campus. He's also wanting to see in person what Nebraska has to offer. Jones is teammates with 2023 signee Brice Turner. The defender posted 102 tackles, 13 sacks and 29 TFL as a junior.

He's got official visits lined up with Cal and Georgia Tech currently as well.

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May 16
Xavier 14, Michigan 2
Northwestern 8, Notre Dame 7 (11 inn)
Pittsburgh 11, Penn State 3
Indiana 6, Evansville 2
Michigan State 9, Central Michigan 2
Minnesota 9, South Dakota State 6

Cancelled
Illinois-Chicago at Iowa
Albany at Rutgers

STANDINGS
1. Indiana (39-14, 15-6)
1. Maryland (35-18, 15-6)
3. Iowa (37-12, 13-7)
4. Nebraska (29-20-1, 13-8)
4. Michigan (26-23, 13-8)
4. Rutgers (32-19, 13-8)
7. Illinois (23-24, 12-12)
8. Michigan State (30-19, 10-11)
8. Purdue (23-27, 10-11)
10. Minnesota (16-33, 8-13)
11. Penn State (24-23, 6-14)
12. Ohio State (28-25, 6-15)
13. Northwestern (9-38, 3-18)

Games for Thursday, May 18
Iowa at Northwestern
Maryland at Penn State
Michigan at Ohio State
Nebraska at Purdue (5:00 PM - BTN+)
Rutgers at Minnesota
Indiana at Michigan State
Tennessee-Martin at Illinois

Will Rhule offer a scholarship during his visit?

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May 17

1536 - Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas Cranmer declared the marriage of England's King Henry VIII to Anne Boleyn invalid after she failed to produce a male heir; Boleyn, already condemned for high treason, was executed two days later.

1792 - The New York Stock Exchange was established when a group of 24 brokers and merchants met by a tree on what is now Wall Street and signed the Buttonwood Agreement.

1938 - NBC aired the "Information, Please!" quiz show on the radio for the first time.

1940 - The Nazis occupied Brussels, Belgium, during World War II.

1946 - President Harry S. Truman seized control of the nation's railroads, delaying -- but not preventing -- a threatened strike by engineers and trainmen.

1954 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled unanimously in its Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka decision that racially segregated public schools were inherently unequal, and therefore unconstitutional.

1973 - Televised Watergate hearings opened, headed by North Carolina Sen. Sam Ervin.

1980 - Rioting that claimed 18 lives erupted in Miami's Liberty City after an all-white jury in Tampa acquitted four former Miami police officers of fatally beating Black insurance executive Arthur McDuffie.

1987 - An Iraqi warplane attacked the USS Stark in the Persian Gulf, killing 37 American sailors and wounding 62. (Iraq apologized for the attack, calling it a mistake, and paid more than $27 million in compensation.)

1996 - President Bill Clinton signed a measure requiring neighborhood notification when sex offenders move in. (Megan's Law, as it's known, was named for Megan Kanka, a 7-year-old New Jersey girl who was raped and murdered in 1994.)

1997 - Laurent Kabila declared himself president of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

2004 - Massachusetts became the first state to allow same-sex marriages.

2010 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled 5-4 that young people serving life prison terms should have "a meaningful opportunity to obtain release" provided they didn't kill their victims.

2013 - The ousted head of the Internal Revenue Service, Steven Miller, faced hours of intense grilling before Congress; both defiant and apologetic, Miller acknowledged agency mistakes in targeting tea party groups for special scrutiny when they applied for tax-exempt status, but insisted that agents broke now laws and that there was no effort to cover up their actions.

2015 - A shootout erupted between bikers and police outside a restaurant in Waco, Texas left nine bikers dead and 20 injured.

2017 - The Department of Justice appointed former FBI Director Robert Mueller as a special counsel to oversee a federal investigation into potential coordination between Russia and the 2016 Donald Trump campaign.

2018 - With six Democrats joining Republicans in voting to confirm her, Gina Haspel won Senate confirmation to become director of the Central Intelligence Agency.

Birthdays
29 - Justin Martin (actor)
32 - Samantha Browne-Walters (actress)
33 - Leven Rambin (actress)
33 - Charlotte Crosby (reality star)
35 - Karrueche Tran (model)
35 - Nikki Reed (actress)
37 - Tahj Mowry (actor)
38 - Matt Ryan (football player)
40 - Ginger Gonzaga (actress)
41 - Tony Parker (basketball player)
44 - Ayda Field (actress)
45 - Kat Foster (actress)
47 - Kandi Burruss (singer)
47 - Rochelle Aytes (actress)
49 - Andrea Corr (singer)
50 - Josh Homme (singer)
50 - Sasha Alexander (actress)
53 - Jordan Knight (singer)
57 - Hill Harper (actor)
58 - Paige Turco (actress)
59 - David Eigenberg (actor)
60 - Page McConnell (singer)
61 - Craig Ferguson (actor/comedian)
62 - Enya (singer)
63 - Simon Fuller (TV personality/host)
64 - Jim Nantz (sportscaster)
67 - Sugar Ray Leonard (boxer)
70 - Kathleen Sullivan (TV personality)
83 - Peter Gerety (actor)

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Today in Sports History - May 17

1875 - The first Kentucky Derby was held at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Kentucky.

1927 - The Chicago Cubs beat the Boston Braves, 4-3, in 22 innings.

1953 - The New York Yankees and the Cleveland Indians set a record when they used 41 players in a game.

1969 - The Baltimore Colts, Cleveland Browns and Pittsburgh Steelers agreed to move from the NFC to the AFC.

1970 - Hank Aaron became the ninth player in MLB history to record 3,000 career hits.

1983 - The New York Islanders sweep the Edmonton Oilers to win a fourth consecutive Stanley Cup.

1987 - Eric ‘Sleepy’ Floyd of the Golden State Warriors set a playoff record for points in a single quarter with 29.

1998 - New York Yankees pitcher David Wells became the 13th player in modern major league baseball history to throw a perfect game in a 4-0 win over the Minnesota Twins.

2020 - An autographed pair of Michael Jordan's Air Nike 1s trainers from 1985 sell for a record $560,000 in an online auction.

2022 - Baltimore Orioles pitcher Matt Harvey was suspended for 60 games by Major League Baseball for distributing a prohibited drug of abuse.

Such problems to have...

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On Monday, we took a look at what Minnesota lost and gained through the transfer portal. You can read it here.

We continue on with the 2023 schedule.

Up next: Colorado.

Final day tmr and a lot of points still out, but both the NU men and women have commanding leads.

It makes me laugh so hard to listen to these really strange people who just happen to have some tech acumen make proclamations about the future. It's a classic example that when someone becomes "somewhat" an expert on something (i.e. they got rich quick) they extrapolate their success into the notion that they know something about everything. It's the same thing when politicians or celebrities opine on the economy, the environment, technology, social order, or anything else with the notion that they're experts because they have the microphone and an audience.

Evolution of jobs is something that has been at play since, like, the beginning of time. 80% of the people who work in the USA today work in jobs that didn't exist in the 1850s. By 2100, 80% of the current jobs will be gone also, but will be replaced by different jobs or more leisure time. That's my take, but the point is that their take isn't any better than my take, someone who's only platform is the RSS. They're using their platform as someone in technology to put their guesses (or fantasies) out there when they have the same level of "don't know what they don't know" that I or any Joe Blow does.

Yeah boilers, we remember last year. If there is a baseball God you will be repaid this weekend.

Soccer Class B boys final @ 5:30p
1 Bennington vs 2 Skutt

Class A boys final @ 8:00p
1 Gretna vs 6 Prep

NBA Lottery @ 7:00p- Victor W sweepstakes

Nuggets vs Lakers @ 7:30p

For those who celebrate, enjoy

The decision is officially in. Dylan Raiola has committed to Georgia.


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Was an awesome movie. Probably biased since I lived in Chicago during the Michael era but what a great story

i'll post a video later. possibly two (longer and shorter version of same thing).

most here likely will not watch at all. and that is fine.
some may give it/them a few minutes of their time. and that's ok too.
but the chosen few who watch the entire thing, will likely benefit greatly in multiple ways. certainly physically. probably more than that too.

stay tuned . . .

(ok ok, it's raining outside. i can't go to hit balls right now so i'm a tad bored. and, this really is fantastic. just likely won't be of interest to most. but like i said, for a few . . . )

May 16

1770 - Marie Antoinette, age 14, married the future King Louis XVI of France, who was 15.

1866 - Congress authorized minting of the first five-cent piece, also known as the "Shield nickel."

1868 - The first ballot on one of 11 articles of impeachment in the U.S. Senate failed to convict President Andrew Johnson.

1929 - The first Academy Awards were given out. (The term "Oscars" was not used to describe the statuettes given to actors and actresses until 1931.)

1939 - The federal government began its first food stamp program in Rochester, New York.

1943 - The nearly month-long Warsaw Ghetto Uprising came to an end as German forces crushed the Jewish resistance and blew up the Great Synagogue.

1957 - Federal agent Eliot Ness, who organized "The Untouchables" team that took on gangster Al Capone, died in Coudersport, Pennsylvania, at age 54.

1960 - The first working laser was demonstrated at Hughes Research Laboratories in Malibu, California, by physicist Theodore Maiman.

1966 - China launched the Cultural Revolution, a radical as well as deadly reform movement aimed at purging the country of "counter-revolutionaries."

1975 - Japanese climber Junko Tabei became the first woman to summit Mount Everest.

1990 - Death claimed entertainer Sammy Davis Jr. in Los Angeles at age 64 and "Muppets" creator Jim Henson in New York at age 53.

1991 - Queen Elizabeth II became the first British monarch to address the United States Congress.

1997 - President Mobutu Sese Seko of Zaire was expelled from the country by Laurent Kabila and his troops, ending 32 years of autocratic rule.

1997 - President Bill Clinton publicly apologized for the notorious Tuskegee experiment, in which government scientists deliberately allowed Black men to weaken and die of treatable syphilis.

2007 - Anti-war Democrats in the Senate failed in an attempt to cut off funds for the Iraq war.

2016 - President Barack Obama called on the nation to support law enforcement officers as he bestowed the Medal of Valor on 13 who risked their lives.

2018 - North Korea canceled high-level talks with South Korea after the nation engaged in joint military exercises with the United States.

2020 - The U.S. death toll from COVID-19 hits 1 million.

Birthdays
21 - Jessica Belkin (actress)
24 - Lani Randol (model)
29 - Miles Heizer (actor)
32 - Ashley Wagner (figure skater)
33 - Marc John Jefferies (actor)
33 - Thomas Brodie-Sangster (actor)
35 - Jermaine Fowler (actor/comedian)
35 - Behati Prinsloo (model)
37 - Ana Cheri (model)
37 - Jacob Zachar (actor)
37 - Drew Roy (actor)
37 - Megan Fox (actress)
42 - Joseph Morgan (actor)
45 - Jim Sturgess (actor0
46 - Melanie Lynskey (actress)
49 - Sean Carrigan (actor)
50 - Tori Spelling (actress)
52 - Rick Trevino (singer)
52 - Kelly Hyland (reality star)
53 - Gabriela Sabatini (tennis player)
54 - Tracey Gold (actress)
54 - Tucker Carlson (TV host)
54 - David Boreanaz (actor)
56 - Brian F. O'Byrne (actor)
57 - Scott Reeves (singer)
57 - Janet Jackson (singer)
67 - Olga Korbut (gymnast)
68 - Debra Winger (actress)
70 - Pierce Brosnan (actor)
76 - Bill Smitrovich (actor)
79 - Danny Trejo (actor)

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Today in Sports History - May 16

1869 - The Cincinnati Reds played their first baseball game.

1933 - Cecil Travis became the first player to get five hits in his first game.

1939 - The Philadelphia Athletics and the Cleveland Indians met at Shibe Park in Philadelphia for the first baseball game to be played under the lights in the American League.

1976 - The Montreal Canadiens defeat the Philadelphia Flyers to win the Stanley Cup.

1980 - The Los Angeles Lakers defeat the Philadelphia 76ers in six games to win the NBA championship.

1981 - Craig Reynolds (Houston Astros) hit 3 triples against the Chicago Cubs.

1982 - The New York Islanders sweep the Vancouver Canucks to win the Stanley Cup.

1985 - Michael Jordan of the Chicago Bulls was named NBA Rookie of the Year.

1994 - Tennis star Jennifer Capriati was arrested on charges of possession of marijuana.

1996 - Sammy Sosa became the first Chicago Cub player to hit two home runs in one inning.

2003 - The Anaheim Mighty Ducks defeated the Minnesota Wild 2-1. The win advanced the Mighty Ducks to the Stanley Cup Finals for the first time in franchise history.

2018 - Officials at Michigan State University said they had agreed to pay $500 million to settle claims from more than 300 women and girls who said they were assaulted by sports doctor Larry Nassar.

2019 - Brooks Koepka fires tournament record equalling, and course record 63 (-7) to lead the PGA Championship by 1 stroke after the 1st round at Bethpage Black, New York.

Five members of the Nebraska baseball program were named to the 2023 Academic All-District Baseball Team, College Sports Communicators announced Tuesday.

Garrett Anglim, Jake Bunz, Josh Caron, Drew Christo and Griffin Everitt all advance to the CSC Academic All-America ballot after earning all-district honors.

Voting for the Academic All-America baseball teams begin on May 16 and closes Tuesday, May 23.

Nebraska finishes out its regular season with a three-game series in West Lafayette against Purdue from Thursday through Saturday.

@Zack Carpenter

How about an article on the T&F Team. B1G championships and a preview of NCAAs, and how the NCAA bids work? Not much football or basketball news right now.

I was looking at the current roster and totally forgot about this kid. When he committed I thought it was a great get.

Dude was a baller in KC in 6A in 3 different sports and won his 2021 football state title.

Is he just going to focus on baseball? I thought this kid could be a legit QB someday.

Hudl Senior Film



BIO from Huskers.com:

On the gridiron, Pauley was an all-state quarterback. He completed 57 percent of his passes while throwing for 5,173 yards and 54 touchdowns in his career, according to MaxPreps. Pauley also rushed for 2,326 yards and 38 touchdowns for the Huskies. He accumulated nearly 7,500 yards of total offense in his high school career with 88 total touchdowns.

As a senior, Pauley threw for 1,945 yards, rushed for 1,214 yards and accounted for 45 total touchdowns to help Blue Valley Northwest to a 12-1 record and the school's first state title. For his efforts, Pauley won the 2021 Thomas A. Simone Award, presented to the best high school football player in Kansas City. Pauley had 1,369 passing yards, 571 rushing yards and 25 total touchdowns as a junior. In his first season as the Huskies' starting quarterback, Pauley passed for 1,861 yards, rushed for 532 yards and accounted for 22 total touchdowns as a sophomore.

On the baseball diamond, Pauley hit .320 with eight home runs as a junior for Blue Valley Northwest. He was part of the Huskies program that won a regional championship in 2018. Pauley was ranked as the No. 1 catcher in Kansas by Perfect Game. He was also part of Northwest's 6A state championship basketball team in 2018, a regional title in 2019 and a sectional title in 2020.

Pauley was a three-star football recruit ranked among the top 15 prospects in the state of Kansas. He signed his National Letter of Intent with the Nebraska baseball program, spurning multiple football scholarship offers.

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Upgraded my living situation and I have a large corner lot now. So, the $200 mower I bought at Walmart 13 years ago isn't getting the job done anymore and am looking at mowers at least 28 inches wide. Also, I have never needed a trimmer so not really sure what I'm looking for. Are most all of them electric now?

Based strictly using online research I think I'm leaning toward this one. Anyone have any experience with these?
(Also, not really interested in storing a rider, I have a 7 foot-tall retaining wall in my backyard and don't want to die mowing my lawn.)

I am linking an article that has an instagram video embedded in it. It shows what they describe as a dustnado. About 15 years ago I was playing in a slow pitch tournament here in Lincoln and saw this type of occurrence as well. it started around the backstop fence and blew away all the waiver sheets we had to sign. All of us just stood there for about 5 minutes watching those papers disappear into the sky.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/ml...p&cvid=aad5fe2e324a4b4e9ebdf3e47baf1134&ei=63

Billy Kemp IV seems like the best bet in the WR group for a productive season. Will Marcus Washington take the next step and emerge? Who are the "swing" players and who's the main fall breakout candidate?

The Blackshirt Breakdown is back, and this time around @Foremanjay5655 and I are taking a look at Willis McGahee IV's film. McGahee committed to the Huskers' 2024 class the morning of the Red-White spring game.

Grizzle’s suspend him again after a video of him waiving a gun surfaced.
How fkn dumb is this kid ?