What do you all have? Any suggestions? What's a quality one for a decent price?

Ooffffff - he'll probably transfer to Colorado.

December 9
Indiana 82, Minnesota 67

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

Games for Tuesday, December 10
Penn State at Rutgers (6:00 PM - Peacock)
#14 Michigan vs. Arkansas (at New York City) (8:00 PM - ESPN)
#20 Wisconsin at Illinois (8:00 PM - Peacock)
Eastern Washington at Washington (10:00 PM - BTN)

Next Nebraska Game - Friday, December 13
Indiana at Nebraska (7:00 PM - FOX)

December 18
1787 - New Jersey became the third state.

1865 - The 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which abolished slavery, was ratified.

1892 - Tchaikovsky's "The Nutcracker Suite" premiered at St. Petersburg's Maryinsky Theatre.

1917 - Congress passed the 18th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution prohibiting “the manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquors” and sent it to the states for ratification. (It was repealed in 1933 by the 21st Amendment.)

1944 - The U.S. Supreme Court upheld the wartime internment of Japanese-Americans.

1956 - Japan was admitted to the United Nations.

1957 - The Shippingport Atomic Power Station in Pennsylvania became the first civilian nuclear facility to generate electricity in the United States.

1969 - The British Parliament abolished the death penalty for murder.

2000 - George W. Bush received 271 votes in the delayed Electoral College balloting.

2010 - The U.S. Senate voted 65 to 31 in favor of repealing the "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" Clinton-era military policy that forbids openly gay men and women from serving in the military.

2011 - The last convoy of heavily armored U.S. troops left Iraq, crossing into Kuwait in darkness in the final moments of a nearly nine-year war.

2019 - The House of Representatives impeached President Donald Trump on two charges, sending his case to the Senate for trial; the articles of impeachment accused him of abusing the power of the presidency to investigate rival Joe Biden ahead of the 2020 election and then obstructing Congress' investigation. (It was the first of two Trump impeachment trials that would end in acquittal by the Senate.)

Birthdays
23 - Billie Eilish (singer)
24 - Jayden Daniels (football player)
27 - Ronald Acuna Jr. (baseball player)
32 - Bridgit Mendler (actress)
35 - Ashley Benson (actress)
35 - Emily Atack (actress)
36 - Lyrica Anderson (singer)
44 - Christina Aguilera (singer)
46 - Katie Holmes (actress)
47 - Maria Brink (singer)
49 - Randy Houser (singer)
49 - Trish Stratus (professional wrestler)
49 - Sia (singer)
53 - Arantxa Sanchez Vicario (tennis player)
56 - Alejandro Sanz (singer)
60 - "Stone Cold" Steve Austin (professional wrestler)
61 - Brad Pitt (actor)
63 - Angie Stone (singer)
78 - Steven Spielberg (film maker)
81 - Keith Richards (musician)

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Today in Sports History - December 18

1932 - The Chicago Bears defeated the Portsmouth Spiders 9-0 in the NFL Championship Game.

1949 - The Philadelphia Eagles defeated the Los Angeles Rams 14-0 in the NFL Championship Game.

1961 - Wilt Chamberlain scored 78 points against the Los Angeles Lakers.

1962 - Wilt Chamberlain scored 62 points against the St. Louis Hawks.

1977 - The Cleveland Cavaliers retired Nate Thurmond's #42.

1983 - The San Diego Clippers ended a 29 game road losing streak.

2006 - The NBA announced fines and supsensions related to a fight that occurred during a game between the Denver Nuggets and New York Knicks on December 16, 2006. Both teams were fined $500,000, Carmelo Anthony was suspended for 15 games and Nate Robinson and J.R. Smith were suspended 10 games.

2022 - Argentina defeated France 4-2 in a penalty shootout to win the World Cup for the third time.

“Name the Husker football pass catcher who set a Nebraska record by corralling at least one reception in 38 straight games during his collegiate career.”

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Answer:

Stanley Morgan Jr.

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December 10
1817 - Mississippi became the 20th state.

1861 - The Confederacy admitted Kentucky as it recognized a pro-Southern shadow state government that was acting without the authority of the pro-Union government in Frankfort.

1869 - The territory of Wyoming authorized women to vote and hold public office.

1898 - A treaty was signed in Paris officially ending the Spanish-American War.

1901 - The first Nobel Prizes were awarded in Stockholm, Sweden in the fields of physics, chemistry, medicine, literature and peace.

1906 - President Theodore Roosevelt became the first American to win a Nobel Prize, winning the Nobel Peace Prize for helping to negotiate peace in the Russo-Japanese War.

1948 - The United Nations General Assembly adopted its Universal Declaration on Human Rights.

1950 - Dr. Ralph Bunche became the first African American to receive a Nobel Peace Prize.

1964 - Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. received the Nobel Peace Prize.

1967 - Singer Otis Redding, age 26, and six others were killed when their plane crashed into Wisconsin's Lake Monona; trumpeter Ben Cauley, a member of the group the Bar-Kays, was the only survivor.

1994 - Yasser Arafat, Shimon Peres and Yitzhak Rabin received the Nobel Peace Prize, pledging to pursue their mission of healing the anguished Middle East.

1999 - Los Alamos scientist Wen Ho Lee was arrested and charged with stealing classified information.

2004 - A U.S. passenger jet landed in Vietnam for the first time since the Vietnam War ended nearly three decades earlier.

2007 - Former Vice President Al Gore accepted the Nobel Peace Prize with a call for humanity to rise up against a looming climate crisis and stop waging war on the environment.

Birthdays
28 - Joe Burrow (football player)
32 - Melissa Roxburgh (actress)
33 - Kiki Layne (actress)
34 - Teyana Taylor (actress/singer)
38 - Natti Natasha (singer)
39 - Raven-Symone (actress)
41 - Maliah Michel (model)
49 - Emmanuelle Chriqui (actress)
60 - Bobby Flay (TV chef)
63 - Nia Peeples (actress)
64 - Kenneth Branagh (actor)
72 - Susan Dey (actress)
78 - Gloria Loring (actress/singer)
83 - Fionnula Flanagan (actress)

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Today in Sports History - December 10

1919 - The National League voted to ban spitballs by all new pitchers. The Rules Committee officially worked out the ban the following February.

1922 - The Canton Bulldogs win the first NFL championship.

1924 - The American and National Leagues agree on a permanent rotation of World Series games, with each league's champion getting games 1, 2, 6 and 7 in alternating years.

1939 - The Green Bay Packers defeat the New York Giants 27-0 to win the NFL championship.

1961 - Houston Oilers back Billy Cannon gains an AFL record 373 all-purpose yards in a 48-21 win over the New York Titans.

1972 - The American League voted to adopt the designated-hitter rule in a three-year experiment. In December of 1975 the American League voted to permanently adopt the designated-hitter rule.

1972 - The longest non-scoring pass in NFL history was made when Jim Hart (St. Louis Cardinals) threw a pass from his own one yard-line to Bobby Moore (Ahmad Rashad). Moore was tackled on the Rams' one-yard line. The pass was officially 98 yards.

1992 - The NHL awarded franchises to Miami and Anaheim for the 1994-95 season.

1994 - Art Monk (New York Jets) set an NFL record of 178 straight games with a reception.

1994 - Colorado running back Rashaan Salaam wins the Heisman Trophy.

1995 - In the first meeting of NBA expansion teams, the Toronto Raptors defeat the Vancouver Grizzlies 93-81.

2001 - Nebraska quarterback Eric Crouch wins the Heisman Trophy.

2005 - USC running back Reggie Bush wins the Heisman Trophy. (Bush later forfeits the trophy for NCAA violations; it was restored to him in 2024.)

2007 - Michael Vick was sentenced by a federal judge in Richmond, VA, to 23 months in prison for bankrolling a dogfighting operation and killing dogs that underperformed.

2016 - Louisville quarterback Lamar Jackson wins the Heisman Trophy and becomes the awards youngest winner, at age 19.

2022 - USC quarterback Caleb Williams wins the Heisman Trophy.

2022 - Morocco became the first African country to reach the World Cup semifinals by beating Portugal, 1-0.

Broke down Thursday’s presser feat. Matt Rhule + John Butler with @TimVerghese

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December 14
1799 - George Washington, the first president of the United States, died at his Mount Vernon, Virginia home at age 67.

1819 - Alabama became the 22nd state.

1911 - Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen became the first man to reach the South Pole.

1939 - The Soviet Union was dropped from the League of Nations.

1964 - The U.S. Supreme Court, in Heart of Atlanta Motel v. United States, ruled that Congress was within its authority to enforce the Civil Rights Act of 1964 against racial discrimination by private businesses (in this case, a motel that refused to cater to Blacks).

1967 - DNA was synthesized for the first time.

1981 - Israel formally annexed the Golan Heights.

1985 - Wilma Mankiller became the first woman to lead a major American Indian tribe as she took office as principal chief of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma.

1995 - The Dayton Accords were formally signed in Paris, ending the Bosnian War.

2012 - Adam Lanza, age 20, forced his way into Sandy Hook Elementary School, in Newtown, Connecticut, and killed 26 people. The victims included 20 children between the ages of six and seven.

2020 - The Electoral College confirmed Joe Biden as the nation’s next president, ratifying his November victory in a state-by-state repudiation of President Donald Trump’s refusal to concede he had lost; electors gave Biden 306 votes to Trump’s 232.

2020 - The largest vaccination campaign in U.S. history began with health workers getting shots on the same day the nation’s COVID-19 death toll hit 300,000.

Birthdays
27 - DK Metcall (football player)
28 - Barbie Ferreira (actress)
32 - Tori Kelly (singer)
36 - Vanessa Hudgens (actress)
40 - Jackson Rathbone (actor)
45 - Sophie Monk (singer/actress)
52 - Miranda Hart (actress)
53 - Natascha McElhone (actress)
59 - Craig Biggio (baseball player)
74 - Cliff Williams (musician)
76 - Dee Wallace (actress)
78 - Stan Smith (tennis player)

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Today in Sports History - December 14
1915 - Jack Johnson became the first black world heavyweight champion.

1947 - The Cleveland Browns defeat the New York Yankees 14-3 in the AAFC Championship Game.

1947 - The National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing (NASCAR) is founded in Daytona Beach, Florida.

1980 - The New Orleans Saints snap a 14-game losing streak, defeating the New York Jets.

1982 - Marcel Dionne (Los Angeles Kings) scored his 500th goal.

1984 - Howard Cosell retired from the NFL's Monday Night Football.

1986 - Dan Marino (Miami Dolphins) set an NFL record with his seventh 400-yard game.

1988 - The NBA's Miami Heat won their first game i franchise history, 89-88 over the Los Angeles Clippers. They had lost their first 17 games.

1991 - Michigan wide receiver Desmond Howard wins the Heisman Trophy.

1996 - Florida quarterback Danny Wuerffel wins the Heisman Trophy.

1997 - Mike Gartner (Phoenix Coyotes) became only the fifth player in NHL history to score 700 career goals. The other 700 goal scorers were Wayne Gretzky, Gordie Howe, Phil Esposito and Marcel Dionne.

1997 - Barry Sanders (Detroit Lions) ran for more than 100 yards for his 13th consecutive game.

1998 - Texas running back Ricky Williams wins the Heisman Trophy.

2009 - Alabama running back Mark Ingram wins the Heisman Trophy.

2019 - LSU quarterback Joe Burrow wins the Heisman Trophy; he wins with the highest percentage of first-place votes in history with 90.7%.

2021 - Stephen Curry set a new NBA career 3-point record; the Golden State Warriors’ guard hit his 2,974th 3-point shot against the New York Knicks at Madison Square Garden, breaking the record held by Ray Allen.

“Name the Nebraska football player who became the Huskers’ first winner of the Johnny Unitas Golden Arm Award, and name the year in which he won.”

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Answers:

Tommie Frazier

1995

December 11
1816 - Indiana became the 19th state.

1844 - Nitrous oxide was used for the first time in dentistry.

1936 - Britain's King Edward VIII abdicated the throne in order to marry American divorcee Wallis Simpson; his brother, Prince Albert, assumed the throne and became King George VI.

1941 - Germany and Italy declared war on the United States during World War II.

1946 - The United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF) was established.

1978 - Nearly $6 million in cash and jewelry were stolen from the Lufthansa cargo terminal at New York's John F. Kennedy Airport; the "Lufthansa Heist", the largest cash robbery in history at the time, was immortalized in the film "Goodfellas."

1980 - President Jimmy Carter signed legislation creating a $1.6 billion environmental "Superfund" to pay for cleaning up hazardous chemical spills and toxic waste dumps.

1994 - Russian troops invaded Chechnya in an unsuccessful attempt to restore Moscow's authority in the region.

1997 - More than 150 countries agreed at a global warming conference in Kyoto, Japan to control Earth's greenhouse gases.

1997 - Housing Secretary Henry Cisneros was indicted for conspiracy, obstruction of justice and making false statements to the FBI.

1998 - Majority Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee pushed through three articles of impeachment against President Bill Clinton, over Democratic objections.

2008 - Bernard Madoff, an investment manager, was charged with defrauding clients of as much as $50 billion in what might be the largest swindle in Wall Street history. (Madoff died in April 2021 while serving a 150-year federal prison sentence.)

2020 - The U.S. Supreme Court rejected a lawsuit brought by President Donald Trump to overturn Joe Biden's presidential election victory, ending an attempt to get legal issues that were rejected by state and federal judges before the nation's highest court.

Birthdays
28 - Hailee Steinfeld (actress)
34 - Alexa Demie (actress)
37 - Shane Gillis (comedian)
37 - Alex Russell (actor)
45 - Rider Strong (actor)
46 - Courtney Henggeler (actress)
50 - Rey Mysterio (professional wrestler)
52 - Daniel Aflredsson (hockey player)
57 - Mo'Nique (actress/comedian)
66 - Nikki Sixx (musician)
70 - Jermaine Jackson (singer)
80 - Brenda Lee (singer)
93 - Rita Moreno (actress)

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Today in Sports History - December 11
1938 - The New York Giants defeat the Green Bay Packers 23-17 to win the NFL Championship Game.

1947 - The Pacific Coast League's bid for major league professional baseball status is rejected.

1949 - The Cleveland Browns defeat the San Francisco 49ers 21-7 in the final AAFC Championship Game.

1951 - Joe DiMaggio (New York Yankees) announced his retirement from major league baseball. DiMaggio only played for the Yankees during his 13-year career.

1971 - The Los Angeles Lakers established a new NBA record with their 21st consecutive win.

1972 - Don Maynard of the New York Jets becomes the NFL's all-time receptions leader with 632.

1981 - Muhammad Ali fought in his last professional fight, his 61st, falling to Trevor Berbick.

1992 - The National Hockey League Governors named Gary Bettman as the first NHL commissioner in League history, effective Feb. 1, 1993.

1993 - Florida State quarterback Charlie Ward wins the Heisman Trophy.

2000 - Florida State quarterback Chris Weinke wins the Heisman Trophy.

2000 - Mario Lemeiux, owner of Pittsburgh Penguins, announced that he would end his three-plus year retirement and become an active National Hockey League (NHL) player again. When Lemieux returned officially he became the first owner/player in NHL history.

2001 - It was announced that Little League Baseball Inc. would require more detailed documentation of the eligibility of its players. Four months before, the Rolando Paulino Little League team from the Bronx, NY, had its third-place finish taken away after pitcher Danny Almonte was found to be too old to play.

2004 - USC quarterback Matt Leinart wins the Heisman Trophy.

2006 - Jerry Sloan records his 1,000th career coaching victory in the NBA.

2021 - Alabama quarterback Bryce Young wins the Heisman Trophy.

I know THIS one!!!

“After Sunday’s win over Wisconsin in the Elite Eight of the NCAA Volleyball Tournament, how many Final Four appearances has the Nebraska volleyball program reached since 1982?”

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Answer:

18, including 7 in the past 10 seasons.

18 is the second-most Final Four appearances all-time (Stanford, 23) and 7 Final Four berths leads the nation over the last 10 seasons.




(And, yes, I made this the daily trivia question purposely to poke fun at myself lol)

Arguably the most “fish in a barrel” question we’ve had all year:

“Name the former Nebraska offensive lineman who, in 2000, became the school’s first-ever winner of the Rimington Trophy, which is awarded annually to the nation’s top center in college football.”

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Answer:

Dominic Raiola