Listening to him today on 590 I couldn’t help but wonder, would Tom have had as much success if he hadn’t had Charlie as his DC? I think they were a great team and that Charlie’s contribution is under appreciated by the national media at least.

We were shopping today and came upon a sports card show. Took me back to my youth a little (no longer collect). Curious if you still have any cards and what your favorite might be.

I have a Joe Montana rookie I saved forever for when I was young - had it graded and it was an 8.5.

Michael Jordan Beam Team from Stadiun Club that graded at a 9.5. Wasn’t my most favorite but became my most valuable after grading.

Nebraska Baseball Head Coach Will Bolt announced the hiring of Conor Behrens as Director of Program Development on Tuesday. Behrens joins the Huskers with four years of coaching experience, including the last two seasons as a volunteer assistant coach at Wichita State.

With the Shockers, Behrens worked with the hitters, catchers and outfielders while serving as camp coordinator and creating scouting reports of opponents. Prior to Wichita State, he had a brief stint as an assistant coach at Point Lomo Nazarene, where he assisted in recruiting and coached the infielders and hitters.

Behrens was a graduate assistant coach and director of operations at Central Missouri for two seasons, helping the Mules to a national runner-up finish with a 46-8 overall record in 2021.

Working primarily with the hitters at UCM, Behrens coached an offense that ranked top-10 nationally in many offensive categories, including batting average, hits, home runs, runs, slugging percentage, stolen bases and hit by pitch. The Mules won the 2021 MIAA regular-season and tournament titles and recorded a 15-game win streak to clinch their DII World Series berth.

In Behrens’ two seasons with the Mules, Central Missouri went 66-11, producing three All-Americans, five all-region hitters and seven all-conference players. UCM was off to a 20-3 start in 2020 before the remainder of the season was canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Behrens played his first two seasons at Kansas City Kansas Community College, where he earned second-team all-conference recognition and won a Region XI Gold Glove. Behrens finished his playing career at Lindenwood, hitting .304 in 73 career games. As a junior in 2017, he helped the Lions to their first-ever appearance in the DII World Series.

Behrens began his coaching career the following year as an assistant at Lincoln Southwest High School, where he was an all-state performer as a player.

A native of Lincoln, Neb., Behrens earned his bachelor’s degree in historical studies from Lindenwood University and holds a master’s degree in sports management from Central Missouri in 2021. He and his wife, Ashley, reside in Lincoln.

July 18

64 - A great fire began that ultimately destroyed most of Rome. The emperor Nero blamed the blaze on Christians and began the first Roman persecution of them.

1536 - The English Parliament passed an act declaring the authority of the pope void in England.

1863 - During the Civil War, Union troops spearheaded by the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, made up of Black soldiers, charged Confederate-held Fort Wagner on Morris Island in South Carolina. The Confederates were able to rebel the Northerners, who suffered heavy losses; the 54th's commander, Col. Robert Gould Shaw, was among those killed in action.

1918 - South African anti-apartheid leader and president Nelson Mandela was born in the village of Mvezo.

1925 - The first volume of Adolf Hitler's "Mein Kampf (My Struggle)" was published.

1936 - The Spanish Civil War began.

1944 - Hideki Tojo was removed as Japanese premier and war minister because of setbacks suffered by his country in World War II.

1944 - American forces in France captured the Normandy town of St. Lo during World War II.

1947 - President Harry S. Truman signed the Presidential Succession Act into law, which placed the Speaker of the House and the Senate president pro tempore next in line of succession after the vice president, followed by the members of the president's cabinet.

1964 - Nearly a week of rioting erupted in New York's Harlem neighborhood following the fatal police shooting of a Black teenager, James Powell, two days earlier.

1969 - Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-Massachusetts) left a party on Chappaquiddick Island near Martha's Vineyard with Mary Jo Kopechne, age 28; Kennedy's car later went off a bridge and into the water. Kennedy was able to escape but Kopechne drowned.

1984 - Gunman James Huberty opened fire at a McDonald's in San Ysidro, California, killing 21 people before being shot dead by police.

1984 - Walter F. Mondale won the Democratic presidential nomination in San Francisco.

1994 - A bomb hidden in a van destroyed a Jewish cultural center in Buenos Aires, Argentina, killing 85.

1994 - Tutsi rebels declared an end to Rwanda's 14-week-old civil war.

2005 - An unrepentant Eric Rudolph was sentenced in Birmingham, Alabama, to life in prison for an abortion clinic bombing that killed an off-duty police officer and maimed a nurse.

2013 - Once the very symbol of American industrial might, Detroit became the biggest U.S. city to file for bankruptcy, its finances ravaged and its neighborhoods hollowed out by a long, slow decline in population and auto manufacturing.

2013 - Romanian investigators found the remains of paint, canvas and nails in the oven of a woman whose son was charged with stealing seven paintings by Picasso, Monet and Matisse from a Dutch gallery in October 2012. Three Romanian men would later plead guilty to the thefts.

2018 - The 12 Thai youth soccer teammates and their coach who were trapped in a flooded cave for more than two weeks were released from the hospital.

2018 - European regulators fined Google a record $5 billion for forcing cellphone makers that use the company's Android operating system to install Google's search and browser apps.

2018 - California's Supreme Court decided that a measure to divide the state into three parts would not appear on the November ballot.

2022 - Dr. Anthony Fauci, the government's top infectious disease expert, said he planned to retire by the end of President Joe Biden's term in January 2025. Fauci, 81, was appointed director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases in 1984 and advised seven presidents, leading research in HIV/AIDS, respiratory infections, Ebola, Zika and the coronavirus.

Birthdays
29 - Taylor Russell (actress)
33 - Mandy Rose (professional wrestler/model)
37 - Travis Milne (actor)
38 - James Norton (actor)
38 - Chace Crawford (actor)
41 - Priyanka Chopra (actress)
41 - Ryan Cabrera (singer)
42 - Michiel Huisman (actor)
43 - Kristen Bell (actress)
44 - Jason Weaver (actor)
47 - Elsa Pataky (actress/model)
48 - M.I.A. (singer)
51 - Eddie Matos (actor)
51 - Elizabeth Cook (singer)
52 - Penny Hardaway (basketball player)
55 - Grant Bowler (actor)
56 - Vin Diesel (actor)
59 - Wendy Williams (TV host)
61 - Jack Irons (musician)
62 - Elizabeth McGovern (actress)
63 - Anne-Marie Johnson (actress)
66 - Nick Faldo (golfer)
67 - Audrey Landers (actress)
69 - Ricky Skaggs (singer)
72 - Margo Martindale (actress)
73 - Richard Branson (entrepreneur)
82 - Martha Reeves (singer)
83 - Joe Torre (baseball player/manager)
83 - James Brolin (actor)
94 - Dick Button (figure skater)

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Today in Sports History - July 18

1921 - Babe Ruth hits his 139th career home run to become MLB's all-time leader, surpassing Roger Connor.

1927 - Ty Cobb set a major league baseball record by getting his 4,000th career hit. He hit 4,191 before he retired in 1928.

1960 - The National League votes to expand with two new franchises, one in Houston and one in New York City.

1970 - Willie Mays becomes the 10th player in MLB history with 3,000 career hits.

1970 - Ron Hunt of the San Francisco Giants was hit by a pitch for a record 119th time in his career.

1976 - Fourteen-year-old Romanian gymnast Nadia Comaneci earned the first perfect score, a 10, at the Olympic Games and went on to score six more 10s and won three gold medals.

1982 - Tom Watson wins his fourth British Open.

1999 - David Cone of the New York Yankees threw the 16th perfect game in MLB history in a 6-0 win over the Montreal Expos.

2020 - Canadian officials said the Toronto Blue Jays baseball team would not be able to play its home games in Toronto during the shortened 2020 season because it wasn't safe for players to travel back and forth from the United States. (The Blue Jays would play "home" games in the ballpark of their minor league affiliate in Buffalo, New York.)

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Sam Griesel has signed with Telekom Baskets Bonn, a professional team in Germany. Griesel, who just finished up a Summer League stint with the Celtics, once played for the German U20 National Team.

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DK applied some pressure on Taumua according to his interview, now should Taumua apply some pressure on Brix to help protect DK?

Inquiring minds want to know...

The fact that our quarterback and two WR recruits have been playing together in high school could pay major dividends down the road. I think this is the first time we have recruited a group from one school? At least this is the first time I have seen this.

Iger wouldn't say when but it is on the horizon. Every network that has gone streaming has pulled it, people will not pay for it. So glad B1G pulled from the Evil Empire... Every network that Disney has put their polluted woke programming on is now for sale as well, losing money and eyeballs. Couldn't happen to a better company.

Next up on the Blackshirt Breakdown: defensive back Rex Guthrie, who's my top under-the-radar recruit in the 2024 class. I think this kid is going to play some good football during his career at Nebraska.

This staff is establishing the same recruiting profile as we got with Calibraska and Frost—a bunch of offensive skill players and defensive backs. We will never be competitive in the Big 10 with this lack of results bringing in top offensive and defensive linemen.

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looks cringe. reminds me of duvals videos.

And there it is: Preston Taumua is N.

The No. 1 recruit in Hawaii and No. 10 offensive guard in the nation announced his late night/early morning – depending on your time zone – commitment to Nebraska moments ago. He’s the fifth four-star prospect in the Huskers’ 2024 class.


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Could visit in September:

A little late-night recruiting update:

This afternoon, I logged a FutureCast for Preston Taumua to Nebraska. The four-star OL is set to announce his decision in the early morning at 1 a.m. ET on Sunday (July 16). I've got Nebraska winning out over the others in his final five of Oregon, Auburn, Alabama and Arizona.

There's a strong relationship between Taumua and Donovan Raiola, and there's a great Hawaiian connection between those two and starting center/fellow Honolulu native Ben Scott that have helped strengthen the Huskers' position with him. Oregon and Auburn have been the Huskers' main competition for Taumua, and neither school will stop recruiting him. So...if the Huskers get a verbal commitment on Sunday, they'll need to keep putting in the same diligent recruiting work through signing day.

Edit: Note the corrected time of Taumua's announcement (1 a.m. ET on Sunday)

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The Huskers are still on the hunt for Grant Brix – their top remaining offensive tackle target in 2024.

The door has been opened for Nebraska, Kansas State and Oklahoma – plus a recent push from Alabama – to land the state of Iowa's No. 1-ranked prospect in the class. It's been a little harder to get a read on Brix's recruitment because he keeps things really close to the vest, but the Huskers are now in a really good position to land him. I'm holding off on a FutureCast prediction for now, but nonetheless I feel good about the spot Raiola, Matt Rhule and Co. have put themselves in for Brix.

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Matt Rhule and Co. are heading down to Texas for another coaches clinic. Rhule, Garret McGuire, Bob Wager, Terrance Knighton, Evan Cooper, Susan Elza and special teams analyst Josh Martin will be in Houston today, tomorrow and Tuesday for a THSCA Coaching School.

Another opportunity to build relationships in one of their biggest recruiting battlegrounds.

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Texas four-star WR Ernest Campbell is heading to Texas A&M. The speedster announced his commitment to the Aggies a few moments ago on Twitter. He had Nebraska as a finalist in addition to Penn State, Oregon, Kansas, Houston and, of course, the Aggies.

Nebraska landing Miami four-star Jacory Barney Jr. almost certainly meant the Huskers were off the table as an option. Looks like their WR class is set with Barney, Dae'vonn Hall, Isaiah McMorris and Quinn Clark.

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Just announced…

The No. 1 ranked football prospect in the state of Hawaii and the No. 228 overall prospect in the nation is N, over Alabama, Auburn, Arizona, and Oregon.…












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July 17

1821 - Spain ceded Florida to the United States.

1862 - During the Civil War, Congress approved the Second Confiscation Act, which declared that all slaves taking refuge behind Union lines were to be set free.

1898 - Spain surrendered to the United States at Santiago, Cuba, ending the Spanish-American War.

1917 - The British royal family changed its surname from the House of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha to Windsor amid anti-German sentiment during World War I.

1918 - Russia's Czar Nicholas II and his family were executed by the Bolsheviks.

1936 - The Spanish Civil War began as right-wing army generals launched a coup attempt against the Second Spanish Republic.

1944 - During World War II, 320 men, two-thirds of them African-Americans, were killed when a pair of ammunition ships exploded at the Port Chicago Naval Magazine in California.

1945 - President Harry S. Truman, Soviet leader Joseph Stalin and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill met at the opening of the Potsdam Conference, the final Allied summit of World War II.

1955 - Disneyland opened in Anaheim, California.

1975 - An Apollo spaceship docked with a Soyuz spacecraft in orbit in the first superpower link-up of its kind.

1981 - At least 114 people were killed when a pair of suspended walkways above the lobby of the Kansas City Hyatt Regency Hotel collapsed during a dance.

1996 - TWA Flight 800, a Europe-bound Boeing 747, exploded and crashed off Long Island, New York shortly after takeoff from John F. Kennedy International Airport, killing all 230 people on board.

1998 - The last Russian Czar Nicholas II was buried 80 years after he and his family were executed by the Bolsheviks.

2009 - Former CBS anchorman Walter Cronkite died in New York City at age 92.

2013 - In a heated House Judiciary Committee hearing on domestic spying, members of Congress said they'd never intended to allow the National Security Agency to build a database of every phone call in America, while top Obama administration officials countered that the once-secret program was legal and necessary to keep America safe.

2013 - Same-sex marriage became legal in England and Wales.

2014 - All 298 passengers and crew aboard Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 were killed when the Boeing 777 was shot down over rebel-held eastern Ukraine; both Ukraine's government and pro-Russian separatists denied responsibility.

2020 - Civil rights icon John Lewis, whose bloody beating by Alabama state troopers in 1965 helped galvanize opposition to racial segregation, and who went on to a long and celebrated career in Congress, died at age 80.

2022 - A report said nearly 400 law enforcement officials rushed to a mass shooting that left 21 people dead at a Texas elementary school, but "egregiously poor decision-making" resulted in a chaotic scene that lasted more than an hour before the gunman was finally confronted and killed.

Birthdays
26 - Leo Howard (actor)
27 - Grace Fulton (actress)
29 - Jessica Amlee (actress)
29 - Kali Uchis (singer)
31 - Billie Lourd (actress)
31 - Amy Hart (reality star)
35 - Summer Bishil (actress)
37 - Brando Eaton (actor)
38 - Tom Cullen (actor)
40 - Sarah Jones (actress)
41 - Stefania Spampinato (actress)
44 - Mike Vogel (actor)
47 - Eric Winter (actor)
47 - Luke Bryan (singer)
54 - Jason Clarke (actor)
55 - Bitty Schram (actress)
55 - Andre Royo (actor)
59 - Craig Morgan (singer)
60 - Regina Belle (singer)
63 - Nancy Giles (actress)
71 - David Hasselhoff (actor)
72 - Lucie Arnaz (actress)
76 - Camilla (Queen Consort of the United Kingdom, wife of King Charles III)
83 - Verne Lundquist (sportscaster)
88 - Donald Sutherland (actor)

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Today in Sports History - July 17

1925 - Tris Speaker becomes the fifth player in MLB history to reach 3,000 career hits.

1941 - The longest hitting streak in baseball history ended when the Cleveland Indians pitchers held New York Yankee Joe DiMaggio hitless for the first time in 57 games. The streak had begun on May 15, 1941.

1954 - The Brooklyn Dodgers made history as the first team with a majority of black players.

1990 - The Minnesota Twins become the first MLB team to turn two triple plays in one game (vs. Boston Red Sox).

1994 - Brazil won a record fourth World Cup, defeating Italy 3-2 on penalty kicks after having tied 0-0 after extra time.

2005 - Tiger Woods wins his 10th career major after winning the British Open.

2011 - Japan defeats the United States to win the Women's World Cup 3-1 on penalty kicks after having tied 2-2 after extra time.

2018 - Alex Bregman and George Springer hit back-to-back homers in the 10th inning, and the American League beat the National League 8-6 in an All-Star Game that included a record 10 home runs.

2018 - Australian basketball center Liz Cambage establishes a new WNBA single-game scoring record with 53 points in leading the Dallas Wings to a 104-87 victory over the New York Liberty.

2018 - Bloomberg estimates the NFL made $14 billion in revenue in 2017, distributing a record $8.1 billion to the league's 32 franchises, or $255 million per team.

2022 - Cameron Smith of Australia wins the 150th British Open.

Preston Taumua is set to announce his commitment at some point relatively soon.

Time zones are #hard and the official time (and date) that has been posted and published on his profile and in articles has been changed multiple times by the hosts but ... it's allegedly now coming at 1 a.m. CT. So everyone sit tight if you're still awake!

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Update: He's N.

The Nebraska Volleyball team is set to play its annual Red-White Scrimmage at the Devaney Center on Saturday, August 19 at 6 p.m.

Tickets will go on sale on Wednesday, July 19 at 10 a.m. (CT) with prices set at $10. There will be a limit of 10 tickets per customer. They can be purchased at Huskers.com/tickets or in person at the ticket office. You can also call 1-800-8-BIG-RED.

The Huskers will also host their second annual Fan Day on Saturday, August 19 from 10 a.m. to noon. Autograph tables will be set up on the concourse of the Devaney Center, and a single autograph line will extend around the concourse of the building. One item per person may be signed. Posters for the 2023 season will be available at the autograph table. Fans will use only the North doors to enter the building. The North doors will open right at 10 a.m. Parking will be available in Lots 58 and 60.

I, for one, am very excited for this season to get going. Look for the volleyball content to ramp up in the coming weeks. I'll be on vacation starting Wednesday, but you can expect some content surrounding the Huskers' 2025 recruiting class in the next few days.

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