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.

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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.

Kamdyn Koch, a 2024 kicker/punter out of Winter Mills (Md.), has committed to Nebraska. Kamdyn is the son of Sam Koch, a Husker all-time great and the best punter in Baltimore Ravens history.

Kamdyn is a scholarship addition for the Huskers, rather than joining as a preferred walk-on. He is officially the team's ninth scholarship commitment in 2024, and he is the fourth Husker legacy committed in the class.

Sorry…couldn’t resist (I’m a small, vindictive person, with the sense of humor of an eighth grader).
Think the guys is a total ass-clown…But hope he doesn’t lose his foot, and makes a complete & full recovery.…No one deserves that.









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Caught up with three-star OL commit Landen Davidson of Broomfield, Colorado. The 6-foot-4, 315-pounder will be at Nebraska's game in Boulder Sept. 9.

“Let me tell you this, I’m going to be at that game and I’m going to be wearing Husker red. I’m excited. I found home. It’s not even a question.”

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Jacory Barney is taking an official visit to Miami this weekend. Barney was a Husker lean but Miami trying to come in hard late.

Saw the Gorn-Dog do an article pertaining to the Elite 11 and the fits and such... but only did 10... why would you not include all 11 of the "Elite 11"?

Cedar Falls (Iowa) 2024 OL Jake Peters has committed to Nebraska. Peters joins Texas three-star Gibson Pyle as the Huskers' second OL commit in the class.
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Here's the latest Blackshirt Breakdown. @Foremanjay5655 and I take a look at 2025 DL commit Tyson Terry. This one was fun:

The best example of this I can think of is Mike Riley. How is it that someone who failed so miserably at Nebraska is now having success coaching in the USFL? The X's and O's are pretty much the same in college as they are in the USFL but yet why are the end results so much different?

McMorris and... Hall will be N.


Interesting!

Anyone else hearing this?

North Carolina defensive back Evan Taylor has committed to Nebraska and explains his decision to @Greg Smith

Taylor is the Huskers' fourth commitment in the 2024 class over the past two days.


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Nebraska Volleyball added another big name to its 2025 recruiting class Monday afternoon. Hit the link.

Topeka (Kan.) Seaman DB Callen Barta is N. He makes commitment No. 3 on the day for the Huskers.