Who are your sleepers for this years team to have a big year:

DB - Larry Tarver. Talked with someone who watched practice and said he looks pretty damn good for a frosh
DL - Kai Wallin. Played a decent amount last year at the end and I think this kid has a bright future. Kind of was looking Jared Crickish. My opinion is the future could be bright for this kid.
LB - Shavers isn't really a sleeper at this point as he is getting a lot of pub. Gonna go with Genatone only for the fact he is a Nebraska kid and mad a "freaks" list.

QB - No under the radar
OL - Seagren or Brix. Just don't trust TC and think we are going to need someone off the radar. Gottula probably fits here as well.
RB - Mekhi Nelson. Just have zero trust with anyone outside of EJ
TE - Heinrich Haarburg. I feel like he is going to make the switch at some point and is too athletic to keep of the field. We are in good shape at TE, but he runs better than all of them by far.
WR - Bonner. So much attention on so many other WR's and the kid seems to just be a solid football player all around. Have heard he may get used like Deebo Samuel and just line up everywhere including RB.

K - John Hohl. Wouldn't be surprised if he replaces Alvano early. Hopefully TA gets it together, but feel like we have a good one with Hohl and it sounds like Nico looks decent as well
P - Koch. Same as above. I feel like BB is going to have a short leash as well. Either punt like you should or get the **** out.

Fill in the blank:

“Nebraska became a trendsetter 55 years ago when it became the first NCAA school to hire a paid ________. He made $2 an hour back in 1969 when he was first hired.”

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Answer:

strength and conditioning coach (Boyd Epley)

TOS released 2027 top 100. He checks in at 16th in the country. What’s Nebraska’s relationship like with him so far?

August 15
1057 - Macbeth, King of Scotland, was killed by Malcolm Canmore, the eldest son of King Duncan, whom Macbeth had slain.

1911 - Proctor & Gamble Company introduced Crisco vegetable shortening.

1914 - The Panama Canal officially opened as the SS Ancon crossed the just-completed waterway linking the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans.

1935 - Aviator Wiley Post and actor Will Rogers were killed in a plane crash near Point Barrow, Alaska.

1939 - "The Wizard of Oz" had its world premier in Hollywood.

1947 - The Indian Independence Bill created the two independent states of India and Pakistan, after nearly 200 years of British rule.

1948 - South Korea became the Republic of Korea.

1961 - As workers began constructing a Berlin Wall made of concrete, East German soldier Conrad Schumann leapt to freedom over a tangle of barbed wire.

1969 - The Woodstock Music and Art Fair opened at Max Yasgur's dairy farm in Bethel, New York. More than 460,000 people attended the three-day festival, which would become a watershed event in American music and culture.

1989 - F.W. de Klerk was sworn in as acting president of South Africa, one day after P.W. Botha resigned as a result of a power struggle within the National Party.

1998 - A car bomb in Omagh, Northern Ireland killed 29 people, the deadliest act of violence in more than 30 years of "Troubles."

2001 - Astronomers announced the discovery of the first solar system outside our own.

2017 - President Donald Trump, who’d faced harsh criticism for initially blaming deadly violence in Charlottesville, Virginia on “many sides,” told reporters that there were “very fine people on both sides” of the confrontation and that groups protesting against the white supremacists were “also very violent.” (In between those statements, at the urging of aides, Trump had offered a more direct condemnation of white supremacists.)

2021 - The Taliban regained control of the Afghanistan capital of Kabul following the withdrawal of U.S. forces from the country.

Birthdays
22 - Kizzy Edgell (actress)
30 - Ashley Nocera (model)
34 - Jennifer Lawrence (actress)
35 - Belinda (singer)
35 - Joe Jonas (singer)
38 - Natalia Kills (singer)
39 - Emily Kinney (actress)
46 - Kerri Walsh Jennings (volleyball player)
52 - Ben Affleck (actor)
54 - Anthony Anderson (actor)
56 - Debra Messing (actress)
59 - Jill Vertes (actress)
60 - Melinda Gates (philanthropist)
74 - Tess Harper (actress)
74 - Princess Anne (member of British royal family)
75 - Phyllis Smith (actress)
86 - Stephen Breyer (retired U.S. Supreme Court justice)
89 - Jim Dale (actor)

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Today in Sports History - August 15
1905 - World heavyweight boxing champion James J. Jeffries retires undefeated after seven title defenses. (He would return to the ring in 1910 to be beaten by Jack Johnson.)

1952 - Ron Necciai of Pittsburgh Pirate's Bristol Twins Class D farm team, strikes out 27 in 9-innings, as he no-hits the Welch Minors; 4 Minors do reach base.

1958 - Stan Musial becomes the eighth player in MLB history with 3,000 career hits.

1970 - Mrs. Pat Palinkas became the first woman to ‘play’ in a pro football game when she held the ball for the Orlando, FL, Panthers.

1976 - The New York Nets defeat the Denver Nuggets in six games to win the final ABA championship.

1984 - Pete Rose returned to become player and manager of the Cincinnati Reds. He had been away from his hometown for six years. Rose had been in Philadelphia and Montreal.

1990 - Mark McGwire hit a grand slam in the 10th inning to become the first major league player to hit 30 or more homers in his first four seasons.

1993 - Nolan Ryan got his 324th and final victory. The Texas Rangers beat the Indians 4-1.

1997 - The Los Angeles Dodgers retired Tommy Lasorda's #2.

2018 - Manchester City ends the EPL season with a 1-0 win at Southampton having smashed 11 Premier League records including biggest title winning margin (19 points) and most points (100).

I would like to see every two years a seven game series between the best players of United States versus the best players of Europe. I think this would be a great event. Thoughts?

If interested in attending the Husker basketball games at Sanford Pentagon in Sioux Falls in November, here's a link for tickets:


The Husker women play South Dakota on Saturday, Nov. 16 (game time TBA) while the men play Saint-Mary's the next day on Sunday, Nov. 17 (game time TBA).

I know life has changed but damn. Recruits are visiting multiple schools multiple times. Do these kids ever have to mow a lawn?

Rumor is he went down? Anyone else hear that? Maybe a shoulder.

With Tommie at the helm do we play for the Natty in 99?

Random Sunday night thoughts....

For Dylan Raiola to make me finally get over Tommy Armstrong Jr.

That is all for now.

Specifically, a ‘stud’

All tongue-in-cheek….just busting on Compton.







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Rob Dvoracek discussed seven different LBs on Tuesday. I broke up his evaluations on those guys into three groups:

>> The “here and now” group
>> The “down the road” group
>> Annnnnd the “Vincent Shavers Jr.” group

hate that he's still having to say it. losing is a disease

can do without the "bubble" stuff, however. only way to know how you're going to react to live fire is exposure to it.

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Good ol Nebraska was on it. Iowa still sucked back then.😂.
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"Sacks last year that I could've made, those will be made this year."

Sounds like Matt Rhule doesn't want Princewill Umanmielen to get comfortable and coast in Year 2. Quick story on Umanmielen's growth and learning about his process:

so politics is cool, right?

JUST KIDDING!

that wasn't my question.

i don't really pay attention to these rules because i pretty much am not likely to be a likely violator. read them way back when and a couple times since over the years. here's my question.... has the 'yahoo community guidelines' been a part of the equation here for a long time and i'm just now noticing it? or is this a more recent development.
like i said, it's not a thread i typically pay much attention to so maybe it's (yahoo community) been a part of the thread title for 7 years for all i know.
tia.
GBR!!!

Still love the game, but are there more of these guys than there used to be?
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August 14
1900 - International forces entered Beijing, China in an effort to suppress the anti-foreign uprising known as the Boxer Rebellion.

1935 - President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the Social Security Act into law, ensuring income for elderly Americans and creating a federal unemployment insurance program.

1936 - In front of an estimated crowd of more than 20,000 spectators, Rainey Bethea was hanged in Owensboro, Kentucky in the last public execution in the United States.

1942 - President Franklin D. Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill signed the Atlantic Charter, which detailed the post-war goals of the two nations.

1945 - President Harry S. Truman announced that Imperial Japan had surrendered unconditionally to the Allies, bringing an end to World War II.

1947 - Pakistan became independent of British rule.

1951 - Newspaper publisher William Randolph Hearst died in Beverly Hills, California.

1994 - Ilich Ramirez Sanchez, the terrorist known as “Carlos the Jackal,” was captured by French agents in Sudan.

1995 - Shannon Faulkner became the first female cadet at The Citadel, the state military college of South Carolina. (However, Faulkner quit the school less than a week later, citing the stress of her court fight, and her isolation among the male cadets.)

1997 - Timothy McVeigh was sentenced to death for the Oklahoma City bombing. (McVeigh was executed by lethal injection in 2001.)

2009 - Charles Manson follower Lynette “Squeaky” Fromme, 60, convicted of trying to assassinate President Gerald Ford in 1975, was released from a Texas prison hospital after more than three decades behind bars.

2021 - A 7.2-magnitude earthquake struck Haiti, turning thousands of structures into rubble; the quake left more than 2,200 people dead and injured more than 12,000 others.

Birthdays
20 - Marsai Martin (actress)
27 - Paige Turley (reality star)
28 - Brianna Hildebrand (actress)
30 - Maya Jama (TV host)
34 - Miranda Rae Mayo (actress)
37 - Tim Tebow (football player)
37 - James Buckley (actor)
37 - Johnny Gargano (professional wrestler)
41 - Lamorne Morris (actor)
41 - Mila Kunis (actress)
43 - Kofi Kingston (professional wrestler)
46 - Kate Ritchie (actress)
56 - Catherine Bell (actress)
56 - Darren Clarke (golfer)
58 - Halle Berry (actress)
63 - Susan Olsen (actress)
64 - Sarah Brightman (singer)
65 - Earvin "Magic" Johnson (basketball player)
65 - Marcia Gay Harden (actress)
68 - Rusty Wallace (race car driver)
68 - Jackee Harry (actress)
72 - Debbie Meyer (swimmer)
73 - Carl Lumbly (actor)
74 - Gary Larson (cartoonist)
77 - Danielle Steel (author)
78 - Susan Saint James (actress)
78 - Larry Graham (singer)
79 - Steve Martin (actor/comedian)
83 - Connie Smith (singer)
84 - Dash Crofts (singer)
89 - John Brodie (football player)

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Today in Sports History - August 14
1932 - Brooklyn Dodgers reliever John Quinn, 49, becomes oldest pitcher to win a MLB game in a 2-1, 10th inning victory over New York Giants at the Polo Grounds.

1936 - The first basketball competition for a Gold Medal was held at the Olympic Games in Berlin, Germany. The U.S. defeated Canada, 19-8.

1937 - The Detroit Tigers and the St. Louis Browns set an American League record for most runs scored combined in a doubleheader with 36.

1959 - The first meeting was held to organize the American Football League. Charter memberships were granted to Dallas, New York, Houston, Denver, Los Angeles and Minneapolis-St. Paul.

1971 - Bob Gibson (St. Louis Cardinals) threw a no-hitter against the Pittsburgh Pirates. It was the first no-hitter at Forbes Field in 61 years.

1976 - A charity softball game began for the Community General Hospital in Monticello, NY. The game was eventually called off due to weather after 30 hours. The final score was Gager's Diner's 491 to Bend 'n Elbow Tavern's 467.

1977 - The New York Cosmos and the Fort Lauderdale Strikes played a game in front of 77,961 fans at the Meadowlands in New Jersey. It was the largest crowd to witness a soccer game in the United States. The Cosmos beat the Strikers 8-3.

1979 - Lou Brock of the St. Louis Cardinals recorded his 3,000th hit.

1986 - Pete Rose (Cincinnati Reds) had his 4,256th and last basehit in a game against the San Francisco Giants.

1987 - Mark McGwire (Oakland Athletics) set the record for home runs by a rookie when he connected for his 49th home run of the season.

1993 - The New York Yankees retire Reggie Jackson's #44.

2016 - Usain Bolt became the first athlete to win the 100m dash in three consecutive Olympics, taking gold at the Summer Games in Rio.

2016 - British golfer Justin Rose becomes the first Olympic gold medalist in golf at the Summer Games in Rio de Janeiro.

2021 - Arizona Diamondbacks pitcher Tyler Gilbert throws a no-hitter in his MLB debut, defeating San Diego Padres, 7-0 in Phoenix; record equalling 8th no-hitter of the season.

Is 70 today.

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"He's young, he's raw, but the guy's explosive and he's aggressive as all heck," Nebraska DC Tony White said Tuesday of true freshman ILB Vincent Shavers Jr. "We have to tone him down a lot of times in practice."

Shavers is continuing to push for a rotation spot at ILB:

It's basically a two-team race now for the Omaha linebacker: