“Name the three Nebraska women’s volleyball alumni who made up one-quarter of the gold medal-winning U.S. team at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.”

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Answers:

Jordan Larson, Kelsey Robinson and Justine Wong-Orantes

Don't trust coincides, ever.

This guy any good?
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Nebraska tight end Thomas Fidone was named to the John Mackey Award Watch List. The Mackey Award is presented annually to the nation’s most outstanding collegiate tight end.

Fidone, a 6-foot-6, 255-pounder from Council Bluffs, Iowa, comes into the 2024 season as one of Nebraska’s top offensive threats and poised for a breakout junior season. After being limited by injuries in his first two seasons, Fidone tallied 25 catches for 260 yards and four touchdowns in 2023, as his 25 catches ranked second on the team. Fidone led the Husker receiving corps with four TDs and had three-or-more catches five times – with four of those coming in Big Ten play. His four touchdown grabs were the most by a Husker tight end since 2010.

Happy Friday, folks. 🍻 Here's a video of Nebraska's 2nd open practice of fall camp.

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Biting ass .. Just put an N in the helmet. 🤣

August 9
1173 - Construction began on the campanile of Pisa Cathedral -- better known today as the Leaning Tower of Pisa.

1854 - Henry David Thoreau's "Walden" was first published, recounting his experiment in solitary life on the shores of Massachusetts' Walden Pond.

1945 - The United States detonated an atomic bomb over Nagasaki, Japan during World War II three days after dropping one over Hiroshima, killing an estimated 74,000.

1965 - Singapore proclaimed its independence from Malaysia.

1974 - Vice President Gerald Ford was sworn in as the 38th president of the United States following the resignation of Richard Nixon.

1988 - President Ronald Reagan nominated Lauro Cavazos to be secretary of education; Cavazos became the first Hispanic to serve in the Cabinet.

1995 - Jerry Garcia, lead guitarist of the Grateful Dead, died.

2014 - Michael Brown Jr., a Black 18-year-old, was shot to death by a police officer following an altercation in Ferguson, Missouri; Brown’s death led to sometimes-violent protests in Ferguson and other U.S. cities, spawning a national “Black Lives Matter” movement.

Birthdays
31 - Rydel Funk Lynch (singer)
31 - Erin Caldwell (actress)
33 - Alexa Bliss (professional wrestler)
34 - Bill Skarsgard (actor)
34 - Adelaide Kane (actress)
39 - Anna Kendrick (actress)
39 - Vivek Ramaswamy (entrepreneur)
41 - Ashley Johnson (actress)
44 - Texas Battle (actor)
48 - Jessica Capshaw (actress)
51 - Kevin McKidd (actor)
52 - Liz Vassey (actress)
53 - Nikki Ziering (actress)
54 - Thomas Lennon (actor)
54 - Chris Cuomo (TV host)
54 - Rod Brind'Amour (hockey player/coach)
56 - Eric Bana (actor)
56 - Gillian Anderson (actress)
57 - Deion Sanders (football player/coach)
60 - Hoda Kotb (TV host)
60 - Brett Hull (hockey player)
66 - Amanda Bearse (actress)
67 - Melanie Griffith (actress)
69 - Doug Williams (football player)
72 - John Cappelletti (football player)
77 - Barbara Mason (singer)
80 - Sam Elliott (actor)
82 - David Steinberg (comedian)
86 - Rod Laver (tennis player)
96 - Bob Cousy (basketball player)

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Today in Sports History - August 9

1936 - Jesse Owens became the first American to win four gold medals in one Olympic Games at the Summer Games in Berlin, Germany.

1971 - Satchel Paige is inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame.

1975 - The New Orleans Superdome as officially opened when the Saints played the Houston Oilers in exhibition football. The new Superdome cost $163 million to build.

1977 - The NHL refuses a merger which would have accepted six World Hockey Association (WHA) franchises into the league. (Four WHA teams would eventually make it into the NHL: Edmonton Oilers, New England Whalers, Quebec Nordiques and Winnipeg Jets.)

1981 - Major league baseball teams resumed play at the conclusion of the first mid-season players’ strike.

1988 - Wayne Gretzky of the Edmonton Oilers was traded to the Los Angeles Kings. The trade was at Gretzky's request. He was sent to the Kings with Mike Krushelnyski and Marty McSorley. Edmonton received Jimmy Carson, Martin Gelina, three first-round draft picks and cash.

1990 - The NHL approved the sale of the Minnesota North Stars by George and Gordon Gund. The Gunds were granted the rights to a Bay Area team that could begin play in October 1991. The team was the San Jose Sharks.

2002 - Barry Bonds of the San Francisco Giants hits his 600th career home run.

2012 - Shannon Eastin became the first female to officiate an NFL game when she worked as a line judge in a preseason game between the San Diego Chargers and the Green Bay Packers.

2012 - The United States women's soccer team defeats Japan 2-1 to win the gold medal at the Summer Olympic Games in London.

2012 - Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt becomes the first to win both the 100 meter and 200 meter races in back-to-back Olympic Games.

2016 - At the Summer Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, American swimmer Michael Phelps wins the 200 meter butterfly event for his 20th career Olympic gold medal.

2022 - Tennis superstar Serena Williams announces her plans to retire.

What's the inside scoop on this guy? 10.5 100m, 39" vert, 11ft broad jump, 230lbs...but wasn't offered by previous staff, and haven't heard anything about him until the article in the other thread. Is he just one of those freakish athletes but just doesn't have football IQ? I'm not gonna buy the tweener excuse (I think there was some talk about that in HS, could be wrong). 230 is big enough to play LB. and I wouldn't think it would be hard to put another 10lbs on either.

nfm

Damn what a match. Brazil is the real deal. Hell of a job by USA to dig deep and pull that out.

2026 Sanford (Fla.) Seminole four-star QB Michael Clayton II tells me he plans to visit Nebraska for the Colorado game next month

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backfire on a school? When does a kid get 3.1 million which their parents force them to invest wisely. Then, said player knows instantly that they do not need to play in the league, and they just suck it up for four years, going home to a set-for-lif scenario.

I love that everybody is making fun of Colorado's doctored "Darts Only" video.

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The Athletic's Bruce Feldman put out his annual Freaks List on Tuesday morning, highlighting 100 college football players who have freakish measurables, athleticism, strength or some other trait which sets them apart.

Nebraska cornerback Tommi Hill came in at No. 57, here's an excerpt from Feldman, including two quotes from Matt Rhule:

"'He’s a 42-inch vertical, 4.3 (40) guy,' Rhule said. Hill started one game on offense and seven more on defense before he moved to cornerback full-time in 2023. Hill made 26 tackles and had nine PBUs with four interceptions. Another DB to remember at Nebraska is redshirt freshman Jeremiah Charles, a 5-11, 170-pounder who has broad-jumped 11 feet and finished fifth in the triple jump (50-6 3/4) and sixth in the long jump (24-0 1/4) at the Big Ten Indoor Championships this year.

'He scored (points) in the Big Ten in a track meet and then came back and won the (football team’s) dunk contest the day they got back,' said Rhule."

Nebraska linebacker Vincent Genatone also made the list at No. 83, here's what Feldman wrote about the transfer out of Montana

"Genatone is a Nebraska product who won the state’s 220-pound Class A high school wrestling title and ran a 10.5 100-meter dash – but didn’t get offered by the previous staff. Genatone began his career at Montana, where he was a special teamer for a Grizzlies team in 2023 that went to the FCS national title game. Genatone transferred home and put up some impressive numbers this offseason. He broad-jumped 11 feet, vertical-jumped 38 1/2 inches and had a max velocity of 21.46 mph.

“He’s such a freak,” Nebraska coach Matt Rhule said. “He’s like our highest jumper, fastest player at 230 pounds.”


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has to be soon, I assume?

enjoy

Mediocrity while Colorado climbs the next two years to being a playoff contender.
Kids in the portal waiting for Prime to announce his move while our recruiting has only moved in the wrong direction since new staff was announced.
This is where too much power and an old system get in the way of finding the best option to win.
RIP Big Red

Tough to watch these guys. So many set point loses. Poland misses three straight serves at duece, and the US can’t win the next point.

I will say women’s volleyball is more fun to watch.

Four of us are looking to go to the Iowa game this year. Is there any way to guarantee you get a seat in the visitor section? I see that Huskers.com sells away game tickets but does not indicate a location. Do these automatically place you in/near the visitor section?

ALSO, would these tickets be seated together?

TIA

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Fidone looks massive

August 8
1588 - English forces attacked the Spanish Armada, permanently crippling Spain's "invincible fleet."

1786 - Dr. Michael-Gabriel Paccard and Jacques Balmat became the first to climb Mont Blanc.

1814 - During the War of 1812, peace talks between the United States and Britain began in Ghent, Belgium.

1815 - Napoleon Bonaparte set sail for St. Helena to spend the remainder of his days in exile.

1876 - Thomas Edison patented the mimeograph machine.
1908 - Wilbur Wright makes the Wright Brothers’ first public flying demonstration, at Le Mans racecourse in France.

1911 - President William Howard Taft signed a measure raising the number of U.S. representatives from 391 to 433, effective with the next Congress, with a proviso to add two more when New Mexico and Arizona became states.

1963 - In "The Great Train Robbery" some 15 thieves robbed the Glasgow-to-London mail train, making off with more than $6 million in cash.

1969 - Sharon Tate, wife of director Roman Polanski, and four others were murdered by members of Charles Manson's "family."

1974 - President Richard Nixon announced he would resign the following day as a result of the Watergate scandal.

2000 - The wreckage of the Confederate submarine H.L. Hunley, which sank in 1864 after attacking the Union ship Housatonic, was recovered off the South Carolina coast and returned to port.

2009 - Sonia Sotomayor was sworn in as the first Hispanic justice on the United States Supreme Court and just the third female member of the high court.

2022 - FBI agents executed a search warrant for former President Donald Trump’s residence at Mar al Lago in Palm Beach, Florida; over 13,000 government documents, including 103 classified documents, were seized.

2023 - A series of wind-driven wildfires broke out on the Hawaiian island of Maui, destroying the town of Lahaina and killing more than 100 people.

Birthdays
23 - Aubrey Miller (actress)
23 - Bebe Wood (actress)
25 - Elys Hutchinson (reality star)
26 - Shawn Mendes (singer)
28 - Dani Dyer (actress)
28 - A'ja Wilson (basketball player)
35 - Anthony Rizzo (baseball player)
35 - Ken Baumann (actor)
36 - Princess Beatrice (member of British royal family)
37 - Katie Leung (actress)
40 - Jackie Cruz (actress)
43 - Meagan Good (actress)
43 - Roger Federer (tennis player)
44 - Michael Urie (actor)
44 - Shayna Baszler (professional wrestler/MMA fighter)
46 - Countess Vaughn (actress)
47 - Lindsay Sloane (actress)
47 - Marsha Ambrosius (singer)
48 - Drew Lachey (singer)
48 - Tawny Cypress (actress)
48 - JC Chasez (singer)
51 - Mark Wills (singer)
56 - Suzy Favor Hamilton (distance runner)
63 - The Edge (musician)
66 - Deborah Norville (TV personality)
71 - Donny Most (actor)
72 - Robin Quivers (radio/TV personality)
75 - Keith Carradine (actor)
77 - Larry Wilcox (actor)
86 - Connie Stevens (actress)
87 - Dustin Hoffman (actor)
94 - Nita Talbot (actress)

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Today in Sports History - August 8

1900 - The first Davis Cup tennis tournament began at the Longwood Cricket Club in Brookline, Massachusetts. (The U.S. would win the inaugural event over Great Britain three matches to none.)

1903 - Joe McGinnity (New York Giants) pitched two complete games in one day. He won 6-1 and 4-3 over the Brooklyn Dodgers.

1920 - Howard Ehmke (Detroit Tigers) set an American League record when he defeated the New York Yankees 1-0 in 1 hour and 13 minutes.

1970 - The New York Yankees retire Casey Stengel's #37.

1988 - Chicago’s Wrigley Field hosted its first-ever night baseball game; the contest between the Chicago Cubs and Philadelphia Phillies would be rained out in the fourth inning.

1990 - Pete Rose begins a five-month prison term at Marion (Illinois) Federal Prison Camp for filing false income tax returns.

1992 - The United States men's basketball team (The "Dream Team") won the gold medal at the Barcelona Summer Olympics with a 117-85 win over Croatia.

1997 - Seattle Mariners pitcher Randy Johnson records 19 strikeouts in a game against the Chicago White Sox.

1999 - Wade Boggs recorded his 3,000th career hit.

2002 - MLB owners and players agreed to a $100,000 increase in the league's minimum salary, raising it to $300,000 starting in 2003.

2005 - Hockey legend Wayne Gretzky was named head coach of the Phoenix Coyotes.

2008 - The Summer Olympic Games opened in Beijing, China.

2021 - The U.S. women's basketball team wins a record seventh consecutive Olympic gold medal with a 90-75 win over Japan at the Tokyo Summer Games. Guards Sue Bird and Diana Taurasi each win their fifth career Olympic gold.