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.

“Which former Nebraska bowler captured the Professional Women’s Bowling Association Rookie of the Year Award five years ago?”

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Answer:

Valerie (Calberry) Bercier

Going against everything I believe in (Colts fan), but taking my son to the Thursday night game against the Ravens. Looking to stay at hotel in the downtown area. Best just to take Uber or are there other methods of transportation to get to/from the stadium. Never been to KC so would be open to any other suggestions anyone has. Thanks in advance and I'm nervous to see what some of the responses are.

What a beast of an athlete!

Not much talk about him . He holds full offers from Syracuse, Ole Miss, Miami, & Penn State. I know staff members pop in and out of North but generally are there for Tyson Terry. I know he transferred from a Phoenix area HS to Burke as a freshman. Transferred to North . He received his Ole Miss offer as a 9th grader.

It was friendly fire that ended DeShon Singleton's season early in 2023. A counter blocking scheme to his side he'll likely never forget.

But the physical 6-foot-3, 210-pound safety is back and starting to feel like himself again, running with the first-team defense while trying to keep pace with new DBs coach John Butler. Singleton's rehab wasn't easy, but he has a good head on his shoulders, which helped with the setbacks that popped up.

“You’re looking in a dark tunnel and you don’t know what’s on the other side, so now you just have to persevere and be consistent in everything you’re doing and just go head-first into it. That’s what I really did with my rehab.”

1. 2008 Utah - Defeated Alabama in the Sugar Bowl

2. 2006 Boise State - Defeated Oklahoma in the Fiesta Bowl

3. 2004 Utah - Defeated Pitt in the Fiesta Bowl

4. 2017 UCF - Defeated Auburn in the Peach bowl

5. 2010 TCU - Defeated Wisconsin in the Rose Bowl

Honorable mention 1984 BYU team that won a national championship

I’m beginning to think that in the first part of the season, he becomes the #2 behind Raiola. And sees playing time.

United Soccer Coaches Preseason Top 25 Poll
1. Florida State (8)
2. Stanford
3. BYU
4. Penn State
5. Clemson
6. Nebraska
7. Pittsburgh
8. North Carolina
9. Texas Tech
10. Memphis
11. UCLA
12. St. Louis
13. Michigan State
14. Georgia
15. Notre Dame
16. Arkansas
17. Texas
18. Mississippi State
19. Wisconsin
20. Alabama
21. South Carolina
22. Santa Clara
23. USC
24. Duke
25t. Iowa
25t. Texas A&M

Others Receiving Votes
Princeton, Brown, TCU, Georgetown, Virginia, Wake Forest

Local guy breaks the Olympic record. Incredible race. Track team is looking awesome.

August 7
1789 - Congress establishes the U.S. War Department.

1942 - U.S. and other allied forces landed at Guadalcanal, marking the start of the first major allied offensive in the Pacific Theater during World War II.

1947 - The wooden raft Kon-Tiki, which carried Thor Heyerdahl and five companions more than 4,000 miles, crashed into a reef in the Pacific.

1959 - The United States launched Explorer 6, which sent back a picture of the Earth.

1960 - Cote d'Ivorire (Ivory Coast) gained independence from France.
1964 - Congress passed the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, which expanded President Lyndon B. Johnson's use of military powers in the Vietnam War.

1971 - The Apollo 15 moon mission ended with a successful splash down in the Pacific Ocean.

1974 - French highwire artist Philippe Petit performed an unapproved tightrope walk between the two towers of the World Trade Center in New York City, over 1,300 feet above the ground; the event would be chronicled in the Academy Award-winning documentary film "Man on Wire."

1978 - President Jimmy Carter declared the Love Canal environmental disaster in Niagara Falls, New York a federal health emergency; it would later top the initial list of Superfund cleanup sites.

1987 - Lynne Cox became the first person to swim from the United States to the Soviet Union, making the 2.7 mile trip through the frigid waters of the Bering Strait. Cox is surprised by the relatively warm welcome she receives from the Soviets.

1989 - A plane carrying U.S. Rep. Mickey Leland (D-Texas) and 15 others disappeared over Ethiopia. (The wreckage of the plane was found six days later with no survivors.)

1990 - President George H.W. Bush ordered U.S. troops and warplanes to Saudi Arabia to guard the oil-rich desert kingdom against a possible invasion by Iraq.

1998 - U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania were bombed by terrorists, killing 224 and injuring more than 5,500.

2000 - Sen. Joseph Lieberman of Connecticut was tabbed by Al Gore to be his vice presidential running mate on the 2000 Democratic ticket, becoming the first Jewish candidate on a major party ticket.

2012 - To avoid a possible death penalty, Jared Lee Loughner agreed to spend the rest of his life in prison, accepting that he went on a deadly shooting rampage at an Arizona political gathering in 2011 that left six people dead and 13 injured, including U.S. Rep. Gabby Giffords.

2015 - Colorado theater shooter James Holmes was spared the death penalty in favor of life in prison after a jury in Centennial failed to agree on whether he should be executed for his murderous attack on a packed movie premiere that left 12 people dead.

Birthdays
25 - Sydney McLaughlin (track & field athlete)
26 - Jalen Hurts (football player)
27 - Evaluna Montaner (singer)
28 - Liam James (actor)
29 - Sasha Calle (actress)
33 - Mike Trout (baseball player)
35 - DeMar DeRozan (basketball player)
37 - Sidney Crosby (hockey player)
38 - Natalie Taylor (singer)
41 - Tina O'Brien (actress)
42 - Brit Marling (actress)
43 - Randy Wayne (actor)
45 - Eric Johnson (actor)
49 - Charlize Theron (actress)
50 - Michael Shannon (actor)
52 - Greg Serano (actor)
53 - Sydney Penny (actress)
57 - Charlotte Lewis (actress)
58 - David Mann (actor)
59 - Raul Malo (singer)
61 - Harold Perrineau (actor)
64 - David Duchovny (actor)
66 - Bruce Dickinson (singer)
69 - Wayne Knight (actor)
72 - Caroline Aaron (actress)
74 - Alan Keyes (talk show host, diplomat)
80 - David Rasche (actor)
80 - John Glover (actor)
81 - Lana Cantrell (singer)
82 - Tobin Bell (actor)

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Today in Sports History - August 7

1907 - Walter Johnson of the Washington Senators records the first of his 416 career wins with a 7-2 win over the Cleveland Indians.

1956 - At 51 years old, Satchel Paige of the Miami Marlins wins a game before the largest crowd in minor league history as more than 57,000 show up at Miami's Orange Bowl Stadium to see Paige lead the Marlins to a 6-2 win over the Columbus Jets in an International League game.

1956 - Boston Red Sox star Ted Williams is fined $5,000 for spitting at heckling Boston fans.

1968 - In his major league debut, Joe Keough of the Oakland Athletics hit a home run in his first at-bat.

1972 - Yogi Berra, Sandy Koufax, Lefty Gomez, Early Wynn, Josh Gibson, Will Harridge, Buck Leonard and Ross Youngs are inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame.

1978 - Eddie Mathews, Addie Joss and Larry MacPhail are inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame.

1984 - In the Summer Olympic Games in Los Angeles, the United States women's basketball team wins its first gold medal with a 85-55 win over South Korea.

1985 - A five-year agreement between the major league baseball players union and team owners ended a two-day mid-season players’ strike. The season resumed the next day.

1987 - The Pittsburgh Pirates retired Bill Mazeroski's #9.

1999 - Wade Boggs of the Tampa Bay Devil Rays becomes the first player in MLB history to hit a home run to record his 3,000th career hit.

2004 - Chicago Cubs pitcher Greg Maddux records his 300th career win.

2007 - Barry Bonds hits his 756th career home run, breaking Hank Aaron's MLB career home run record.

2010 - Jerry Rice, Emmitt Smith, John Randle, Russ Grimm, Rickey Jackson, Floyd Little and Dick LeBeau are inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame.

2016 - Jim Furyk fires a 12-under-par 58 in the final round of the Travelers Championship at TPC at River Highlands in Cromwell, Connecticut, becoming the first player to shoot 58 in a PGA Tour event and the first PGA Tour pro to shoot to sub-60 rounds.

2016 - Ichiro Suzuki of the Miami Marlins becomes the 30th player in MLB history with 3,000 career hits.

2016 - As a part of the winning 4x100 meter freestyle relay team at the Rio de Janeiro Summer Games, American swimmer Michael Phelps collects a record 19th career Olympic gold medal.

2021 - As a member of the winning American 4x400 meter relay team at the Tokyo Summer Olympics, American track star Allyson Felix wins her 11th career Olympic medal, making her the most decorated female Olympian in track and field history.

2021 - Kevin Durant scores 29 points to lead the U.S. men's basketball team to its fourth consecutive Olympic gold medal with a 87-82 win over France at the Tokyo Summer Games.

CasperCody here...made my first ever today. it was in our Member/Member tournament. About 200 players...gonna be expensive!! Login to view embedded media

“Name the Olympic heptathlon participant and former Nebraska track & field standout who appeared on the Dwayne Johnson-hosted TV show “The Titan Games” in 2020.”

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Answer:

Chantae McMillan

Planning on doing these for day-after follow-up coverage from fall camp pressers: Player Takeaways with the most interesting thing that stood out from three of the players made available.


Today’s subjects:
👉 MJ Sherman rattles off the updated list of Jacks and heaps praise on the defensive analyst in charge of the position: A guy named Jack because of course that’s his name.

👉 Cam Lenhardt on the D-line’s emphasis of getting home with four + the NFL’s elite pass rushers the DL studied this summer.

👉 Very, very brief note on the Malcolm Hartzog is repping in preseason practice.

Quick-fire breakdown with @TimVerghese

We packed a ton of subjects into a Rapid Recap episode that you can hit play on as you wait for the shower to get warm and be done with the episode by the time you shut off the water.


👉 The Blackshirts bolstering their depth early on in training camp.

👉 Tweaks being explored in regard to the role and utilization of star defensive lineman Nash Hutmacher.

👉 The potentially dangerous one-two combination of Jimari Butler and Cam Lenhardt.

👉 A projection for true freshmen Keona Davis and David Hoffken in their first college season.

👉 Nebraska's search for the second outside cornerback who will start opposite Tommi Hill. That No. 2 CB spot was filled by a familiar face at practice over the weekend.

👉 And, of course, the biggest news of the week: A season-ending injury to LT Teddy Prochazka, in addition to a season-ender for LB Roger Gradney.

Excellent stuff today from John Butler, Nebraska's secondary coach and pass game coordinator.

Challenges to the fast transition? Butler doesn’t see there being many. His experience helps with that — he's been doing this stuff since 1995.

“Thirty years of doing this, this isn't my first rodeo.”

pretending that there's a QB race. When DR leads the entire team on the field and has most of the 1st team reps, the cat's kind of out of the bag.

Please pardon all of the duplicate photos and duplicate-adjacent photos in this gallery. There was a glitch on the back end that's out of my control (shrugs)

Nonetheless, here's a bunch of photos from Saturday night's open portion of practice featuring a host of true freshmen, newcomers, some Huskers who underwent some impressive physical changes and the QBs. Lots of photos of the QBs:

Are a bad ass!!!

Thank you for your updates and threads about football. I don’t need to go anywhere else. Your posts hit straight to what we want to see. Giving credit where credit is due.