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Lose - F

Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours! Hope it’s a great day for all of you bowl-bound Husker fans…

If you’re celebrating with family and would like discussion points between bites, if you’re flying solo throughout the day, if you’re at your in-laws and would like an excuse to interact with them minimally as to not put your foot in your mouth — and all situations in between — here’s some Thanksgiving Day content for the lot of ya’s:

Bad snap

November 30
#1 UCLA 97, Fresno State 41
#4 South Carolina 99, Purdue 51
#10 Maryland 66, George Mason 56
Minnesota 68, Louisiana-Lafayette 48
Wisconsin 58, Virginia Commonwealth 45
Rutgers 77, Georgia Southern 60
Michigan 76, Virginia Tech 65

Standings
Minnesota (9-0)
Iowa (8-0)
Michigan State (8-0)
Penn State (8-0)
Maryland (7-0)
Ohio State (7-0)
UCLA (7-0)
Michigan (7-1)
Nebraska (6-1)
Illinois (6-1)
USC (6-1)
Washington (7-2)
Wisconsin (7-2)
Oregon (6-2)
Rutgers (5-3)
Indiana (4-3)
Purdue (4-3)
Northwestern (2-3)

Games for Sunday, December 1
Cornell at Northwestern (1:00 PM - BTN+)
Maine at Indiana (1:00 PM - BTN+)
#10 Maryland vs. Toledo (at Annapolis, MD) (2:30 PM - ESPN+)
#1 UCLA at Hawaii (6:30 PM - ESPN+)

Next Nebraska Game - Tuesday, December 3
Lindenwood at #25 Nebraska (7:00 PM - BTN+)

Good stuff in here on Dylan Raiola, Dante Dowdell, Ty Robinson and more…if you’re into that kinda thing.

December 7

1787 - Delaware became the first state to ratify the U.S. Constitution.

1917 - The U.S. declared war on Austria-Hungary during World War I.

1941 - The Empire of Japan launched an air raid on the U.S. Navy base at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii, killing more than 2,300 Americans. The United States would declare war on Japan the following day and enter World War II.

1972 - America's final mission to the moon, Apollo 17, blasted off from Cape Canaveral.

1976 - Indonesia invaded East Timor, leading to a 25-year occupation.

1982 - Convicted murderer Charlie Brooks Jr. became the first U.S. prisoner to be executed by lethal injection, at a prison in Huntsville, Texas.

1988 - A 6.9 magnitude earthquake hit Armenia, killing more than 25,000.

1993 - Six people were killed and 19 wounded in a mass shooting aboard a Long Island Rail Road train in New York.

2001 - Taliban forces fled from Kandahar, their last stronghold in Afghanistan.

2002 - Iraq formally declared to the U.N. that it had no weapons of mass destruction.

2004 - Hamid Karzai was sworn in as Afghanistan's first popularly elected president.

2018 - James Alex Fields Jr., who drove his car into a crowd of counterprotesters at a 2017 white nationalist rally in Virginia, was convicted of first-degree murder.

Birthdays
30 - Pete Alonso (baseball player)
31 - Clara Berry (model)
31 - Jasmine Villegas (singer)
35 - Nicholas Hoult (actor)
36 - Emily Browning (actress)
39 - Jon Moxley (professional wrestler)
45 - Sarah Bareilles (singer)
45 - Jennifer Carpenter (actress)
46 - Shiri Appleby (actress)
47 - Andrea Lopez (actress)
51 - Terrell Owens (football player)
58 - C. Thomas Howell (actor)
59 - Jeffrey Wright (actor)
68 - Larry Bird (basketball player)
75 - Tom Waits (singer)
77 - Johnny Bench (baseball player)
92 - Ellen Burstyn (actress)

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Today in Sports History - December 7
1939 - Lou Gehrig was elected to Baseball's Hall of Fame. He was the first player to have the rule waived that required a player to be retired one year before he could be elected.

1949 - Split end Leon Hart of Notre Dame wins the Heisman Trophy.

1963 - CBS introduced the first-ever "Instant Replay" during the Army-Navy football game.

1985 - Auburn running back Bo Jackson wins the Heisman Trophy.

1996 - Texas upsets Nebraska 37-27 in the inaugural Big 12 Championship Game.

2017 - Former US gymnastics physician Larry Nasser is sentenced to 60 years on child pornography charges.

2020 - Breaking, the competitive form of breakdancing, confirmed as an Olympic sport for the Paris 2024 games.

I’ll let you haters find it yourself but this boy will go down as the top miss in N history. Burrow level miss. The Flores train keeps rolling and we never even tried meet him at the Station. Can only hope the new staff can rectify this crime.

post any and all good songs you come across, I'll make a Srollers playlist at some point with all of them ...

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Family is what drives Kewan Lacy. Here’s more on the dynamic athlete from Lancaster, Texas.

December 5

Trivia:

“When Mike Rozier rushed for 29 TDs to lead all of college football in 1983, he broke the NCAA record for most TDs in a single season. That mark was previously set in 1971. Name the player who held the previous mark of 28 TDs and the school where he played.”

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Answers:

Terry Metcalf

Long Beach State

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December 6

Fast-fact Friday:

“Shannon Pluhowsky, a star Nebraska bowler in the early 2000s who was named an assistant coach in 2019, was a World Bowling Writers Hall of Fame inductee in 2012.”

Fast-fact Friday:

“Back in 2021, Nebraska women’s volleyball player Lexi Rodriguez earned the National Freshman of the Year award.”

Sucks

Fast-fact Friday and, as always, I’m writing these verbatim straight from the daily calendar:

“Fan support of the Nebraska women’s soccer team has been nothing short of amazing since the program burst onto the scene in 1994. Most recently, since moving into Hibner Stadium, the team consistently draws attendance among the Top 30 programs nationally and Top 3 in the Big Ten.”