The wife and I are taking the kids down the Niobrara when we visit Nebraska in late July.

3 nights and two full-days.

Day 1 will be tubing, but we’d like to do something else with the second day in the area.

Would love any tips or suggestions given I’ve only gone down the river out there, and we just think 2 full-days of tubing will be too much for the kids (and us)…..but we already booked lodging in Valentine so we’ve got that second day to fill up.

TIA WN experts!

PS - I did already search the board for previous threads but didn’t find anything super relevant (as much as I’d love to go golfing haha).

what say you?​

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one of Hoiberg's highest-rated high school recruits

The former Hastings Tiger and Husker walk-on QB is headed to South Dakota. He’ll join another former Nebraska player from last season there in Mosai Newsom.

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Inflation

I've lost 15 lbs since I stopped eating fast food about 2 months ago. I stopped when I went through the drive through line at one of the big chains and ordered a burger/fries/drink "value" meal and they wanted over $13 for it. Literally, this same meal cost $8 just two years ago.

I'm sorry, but even after acknowledging that inflation in fast food has been higher than the national average because of crazy wage increases, we haven' had 63% inflation over the past 24 months. These joints are using the inflation gig to rape consumers, and as such, people like me are choosing not to participate, hence, we have a bunch of vacant fast food venues in the area.

This was predicted when they raised wages to $15/hr. Less business and less jobs, but although a bunch of fast food workers are out of a job, at least I'm 15 lbs lighter.

Gatlin?

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May 6
Indiana 5, Northwestern 2 (12 inn)
South Dakota State 7, Purdue 5
Minnesota 4, Michigan 2
Nebraska 12, Maryland 10
Iowa 15, Ohio State 3
Illinois 14, Michigan State 7
Rutgers 10, Penn State 0

STANDINGS
1. Maryland (32-16, 12-5)
2. Indiana (33-14, 11-6)
3. Iowa (34-11, 10-6)
4. Nebraska (25-18-1, 10-7)
4. Michigan State (28-15, 10-7)
4. Rutgers (29-18, 10-7)
7. Purdue (22-23, 10-8)
8. Michigan (22-22, 9-8)
9. Illinois (21-22, 10-10)
10. Minnesota (14-30, 7-10)
11. Penn State (24-17, 6-10)
12. Ohio State (22-25, 5-15)
13. Northwestern (8-33, 3-13)

Games for Saturday, May 6
Indiana at Northwestern
Michigan at Minnesota
Penn State at Rutgers
Nebraska at Maryland (12:00 PM - BTN+)
Michigan State at Illinois
Ohio State at Iowa
South Dakota State at Purdue

Minnesota 13, Michigan 10
Maryland 8, Illinois 1
Wisconsin 9, Iowa 0
Indiana 9, Michigan State 5
Penn State 3, Purdue 1 (12 inn)
Nebraska 4, Ohio State 3
Rutgers 7, Northwestern 3

Nebraska has clinched a first round bye in the Big Ten Tournament

STANDINGS
1. Northwestern (34-11, 19-3)
2. Indiana (39-15, 17-5)
3. Minnesota (35-16, 16-6)
4. Nebraska (33-18, 13-9)
5. Penn State (30-14, 11-10)
5. Wisconsin (26-19, 11-10)
7. Ohio State (31-19, 11-11)
8. Maryland (35-16, 10-11)
9. Iowa (30-25, 10-12)
9. Michigan (26-23, 10-12)
11. Rutgers (32-23, 9-13)
12. Illinois (28-25, 6-15)
13. Purdue (21-30, 5-17)
14. Michigan State (14-31, 4-18)

Games for Sunday - May 7
Michigan State at Indiana
Maryland at Illinois
Michigan at Minnesota
Ohio State at Nebraska (12:00 PM - BTN+)
Northwestern at Rutgers
Penn State at Purdue
Iowa at Wisconsin

GBR!

Back for game two of this weekend series between Nebraska (24-18-1, 9-7) and No. 23 Maryland (32-15, 12-4) with first pitch set for 1 p.m. on BTN+. The Terrapins will look to lock up this series today after defeating the Huskers 8-4 in yesterday's series opener as Maryland put together a five-run fifth inning on starter Emmett Olson and held on from there - including two big insurance runs in the eighth off two wild pitches. Here's that recap from last night:


This afternoon it'll be RHP Jace Kaminska (6-3, 3.91 ERA) vs. LHP Kyle McCoy (4-5, 4.68 ERA). Kaminska is looking to build off one of his best starts of the season as he tossed seven shutout innings scattering five hits with seven strikeouts against Minnesota last weekend. Here's the full series preview to get you ready:

2018 class. Only 1 HS player completed his eligibility here. Two left early for the NFL and one medically retired all the rest transferred before completing their eligibility.

Northwestern 11, Rutgers 2
Minnesota 3, Michigan 0
Penn State 4, Purdue 3
Indiana 9, Michigan State 1
Maryland 6, Illinois 2
Ohio State 2, Nebraska 1
Wisconsin 3, Iowa 0

Standings
1. Northwestern (34-10, 19-2)
2. Indiana (38-15, 16-5)
3. Minnesota (34-16, 15-6)
4. Nebraska (32-18, 12-9)
5. Ohio State (31-18, 11-10)
6. Penn State (29-14, 10-10)
6. Wisconsin (25-19, 10-10)
8. Iowa (30-24, 10-11)
8. Michigan (26-22, 10-11)
10. Maryland (34-16, 9-11)
11. Rutgers (31-23, 8-13)
12. Illinois (28-24, 6-14)
13. Purdue (21-29, 5-16)
14. Michigan State (14-30, 4-17)

Games for Saturday, May 6
Michigan at Minnesota
Maryland at Illinois
Iowa at Wisconsin
Michigan State at Indiana
Penn State at Purdue
Ohio State at Nebraska (1:00 PM - BTN+)
Northwestern at Rutgers

Pretty good afternoon for the Huskers. Hit the link.

May 6

1882 - President Chester Alan Arthur signed the Chinese Exclusion Act, which barred Chinese immigrants from the U.S. for 10 years (Arthur had opposed an earlier version with a 20-year ban).

1889 - The Eiffel Tower in Paris was completed and dedicated in Paris.

1910 - Britain's Edwardian era ended with the death of King Edward VII; he was succeeded by George V.

1935 - The Works Progress Administration began operating under an executive order signed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt.

1937 - The German airship Hindenburg blew up and burst into flames at Lakehurst, New Jersey; 35 of the 97 people on board were killed along with a crewman on the ground.

1941 - Comedian Bob Hope did his first USO show before an audience of servicemen as he broadcast his radio program from March Field in Riverside, California.

1942 - During World War II, some 15,000 American and Filipino troops on Corregidor island surrendered to Japanese forces.

1941 - Dictator Joseph Stalin became the premier of Russia.

1994 - The Chunnel between England and France opened to traffic.

1994 - Former Arkansas state worker Paula Jones filed suit against President Bill Clinton, alleging he’d sexually harassed her in 1991. (Jones reached a settlement with Clinton in November 1998.)

1999 - Scotland elected its first separate parliament in over 300 years.

2004 - President George W. Bush apologized for the abuse of Iraqi prisoners by American soldiers, calling it “a stain on our country’s honor”; he rejected calls for Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld’s resignation.

2006 - Lillian Gertrud Asplund, the last American survivor of the sinking of the Titanic, died in Shrewsbury, Massachusetts, at age 99.

2010 - A computerized sell order triggered a “flash crash” on Wall Street, sending the Dow Jones industrials to a loss of nearly 1,000 points in less than half an hour.

2013 - Kidnap-rape victims Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus and Michelle Knight, who went missing separately about a decade earlier while in their teens or early 20s, were rescued from a house just south of downtown Cleveland. (Their captor, Ariel Castro, hanged himself in prison in September 2013 at the beginning of a life sentence plus 1,000 years.)

2013 - Grammy-winning singer Lauryn Hill was sentenced by a federal judge in Newark, New Jersey, to three months in prison for failing to pay about $1 million in taxes over the previous decade.

2018 - Lebanon’s Iranian-backed Hezbollah group scored major gains in parliamentary elections, as the main Western-backed faction headed by Prime Minister Saad Hariri lost a third of its seats.

Birthdays
26 - Sofia Jamora (model)
28 - Tiera Skovbye (actress)
29 - Noah Galvin (actor)
30 - Naomi Scott (actress/singer)
33 - Jose Altuve (baseball player)
35 - Cheree "Dakota Kai" Crowley (professional wrestler)
38 - Chris Paul (basketball player)
40 - Adrianne Palicki (actress)
41 - Tiffany Coyne (TV personality/model)
44 - Stacey Oristano (actress)
58 - Leslie Hope (actress)
62 - Clay O'Brien (actor)
62 - George Clooney (actor)
63 - Julianne Phillips (actress)
71 - Gregg Henry (actor)
75 - Richard Cox (actor)
76 - Alan Dale (actor)
78 - Bob Seger (singer)
92 - Willie Mays (baseball player)

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Today in Sports History - May 6

1903 - The Chicago White Sox committed 12 errors against the Detroit Tigers.

1915 - Babe Ruth hit his first major league home run while playing for the Boston Red Sox. The game was also his pitching debut.

1946 - The New York Yankees became the first major league baseball team to travel by plane.

1954 - British athlete Roger Bannister became the first person to run a mile in under four minutes (3:59.4).

1973 - The New England Whalers beat the Winnipeg Jets in the first WHA championship.

1982 - Gaylord Perry of the Seattle Mariners become the 15th pitcher to win 300 career games.

1997 - The NHL's Hartford Whalers became the Carolina Hurricanes.

1998 - Kerry Wood of the Chicago Cubs strikes out 20 batters in a game against the Houston Astros, to tie the MLB record held by Roger Clemens.

2016 - Major League Baseball and the player's union announced the Pirates-Marlins series in Puerto Rico would be moved to Marlins Park in Florida due to concerns about the Zika virus.

2019 - Pablo Sandoval becomes the second player in MLB history since 1900 to throw a scoreless outing, hit a home run and steal a base in the same game in the San Francisco Giants' 12-4 loss to the Cincinnati Reds. Christy Mathewson in 1905 was the only other player to ever accomplish the feat.

Nebraska will play Oregon State inside the Sanford Pentagon in Sioux Falls, the program announced today. They'll play Nov. 18 — the same day as Nebraska's football game at Wisconsin.

Here's the press release:

The Nebraska men's basketball team is returning to the Sanford Pentagon in 2023 for a non-conference matchup against Oregon State on Saturday, Nov. 18. Ticket information and game time will be announced later.

This will be the second time Nebraska has played at the Sanford Pentagon. On Dec. 16, 2018, the Huskers defeated Oklahoma State 79-56 in front of a standing room-only crowd of 3,800.

"Playing at the Sanford Pentagon against Oregon State is a great opportunity for our basketball team," Nebraska Head Coach Fred Hoiberg said. "We are thankful to Sanford Sports for including the University of Nebraska in this game for a second time. We have a lot of alumni in the Sioux Falls area, so I expect there to be a lot of red and white in the crowd in November which will help make for a phenomenal atmosphere for a college basketball game."

Nebraska returns four players who started at least 12 games during the 2022-23 season. The Huskers finished on a high note last season, winning six of their final eight regular-season games, including three victories over teams that played in the NCAA Tournament.

Oregon State will play at the Sanford Pentagon for the first time. The Beavers finished the 2022-23 season with an 11-21 record. Head Coach Wayne Tinkle, entering his 10th season at Oregon State, coached one of the youngest teams in the nation last season as more than 50 percent of the team's points came from freshmen – one of three Power 5 teams to do so.

This will be the 11th all-time meeting between the Huskers and Beavers, as Oregon State leads the all-time series, 6-4. Nebraska won the last meeting between the teams 50-44 on Dec. 12, 2009 at the Bob Devaney Sports Center.

Since opening in 2013, the Sanford Pentagon has hosted more than 80 Division I men's and women's college basketball games. Last December, the Pentagon hosted a rematch of the 2021 men's national championship game between No. 6 Baylor and No. 14 Gonzaga. Two weeks later, defending women's national champions and No. 1 ranked South Carolina defeated South Dakota State on Heritage Court.

Today starts a big weekend for the Nebraska baseball team as the Huskers (24-17-1, 9-6) hope to bounce back from a Wednesday loss to North Dakota State at Haymarket Park. It'll be a tough task as Nebraska flies east to take on the No. 23 Maryland Terrapins (31-15, 11-4) for a three-game series in College Park. The Terrapins possess one of the best offenses in the country as they are second in the nation with over 100 home runs and lead the Big Ten in numerous offensive categories. However, Maryland is ranked 13th in team ERA, so there could be plenty of offensive outbursts this weekend.

This begins the final three-week stretch of the season for the Big Red who are currently in a three-way tie for third with Indiana and Michigan in the conference. The Terrapins enter the weekend leading the conference with Michigan State right behind with a 9-5 league mark. Nebraska really can't afford to be swept this weekend as that'll put them against the wall in terms of qualifying for the Big Ten Tournament at the end of the month in Omaha. Winning at least one game needs to happen.

Tonight on the bump we have LHP Emmett Olson (5-2, 4.06 ERA) vs. RHP Nick Dean (3-1, 4.70 ERA). Here is the full series preview to get you ready.

40 years

GBR!

May 5
Indiana 4, Northwestern 0
Maryland 8, Nebraska 4
Illinois 10, Michigan State 9
Minnesota 4, Michigan 0
Iowa 16, Ohio State 9
Purdue 10, South Dakota State 7
Rutgers 8, Penn State 1

STANDINGS
1. Maryland (32-15, 12-4)
2. Indiana (32-14, 10-6)
2. Michigan State (28-14, 10-6)
4. Iowa (33-11, 9-6)
5. Nebraska (24-18-1, 9-7)
5. Michigan (22-21, 9-7)
5. Rutgers (28-18, 9-7)
8. Purdue (22-22, 10-8)
9. Illinois (20-22, 9-10)
10. Penn State (24-16, 6-9)
11. Minnesota (13-30, 6-10)
12. Ohio State (22-24, 5-14)
13. Northwestern (8-32, 3-12)

Games for Saturday, May 6
Indiana at Northwestern
Michigan at Minnesota
Penn State at Rutgers
Nebraska at Maryland (1:00 PM - BTN+)
Michigan State at Illinois
Ohio State at Iowa
South Dakota State at Purdue

The Vince Neil thread got me thinking…

Nebraska and Creighton will resume last month’s suspended game on Tuesday, May 9 at 5 p.m. at Charles Schwab Field in Omaha.

The game, which was suspended due to lightning, will resume tied at four in the bottom of the seventh inning with Nebraska batting and no outs. Gabe Swansen will be at the plate with the bases loaded and an 0-0 count.

Following the completion of the suspended game, the Huskers and Bluejays will meet in the series finale scheduled for 7:03 p.m. on CBS Sports Network.

Long story long… was down in Puerto, Escondido Mexico (about 200 miles north of the Guatemala border), attempting to bail my black-sheep of a brother out of a Mexican jail.

After a long day, was patronized a small bodega close to my hotel. Was looking for some tequila to ease my stress…an old Mexican local saw me perusing the tequila selection, approached me, and proceeded to inform me in broken english (unsolicited might I add), that Patron was trash, and this was the local, high-end, “go to” tequila… half the price & far superior…

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This was a tremendous time for music IMO ... felt like the world was really getting along and music reflected that.

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Appreciate @Jaihawk putting something up early, but Nebraska received its fourth commitment in the last month during a 8-4 loss to Maryland Friday night in the form of Barton CC (Kan.) center fielder Riley Silva. The sophomore outfielder will join the Huskers for the 2023-2024 season and try to earn himself some playing time in the outfield with his lethal speed.

Silva has been an instrumental part of a Barton team that is 45-8 and locked up back-to-back Jayhawk West Conference titles with 24-6 league mark. The 5-foot-11 OF is the second Canadian to join the 2023 recruiting class along with fellow Canadian Aaron Manias who committed on Thursday.

Silva is batting .398 through 48 games this season with no home runs, but 34 RBI, 64 runs and 41 stolen bases. He's really improved since his freshman season at Barton where he played in only 11 games with 12 at-bats where he hit .250 with three hits, triple and two RBI.

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