December 2
1804 - Napoleon Bonaparte was crowned emperor of France in Paris by Pope Pius VII.

1823 - President James Monroe outlined his famous doctrine opposing European expansion in the Western Hemisphere.

1859 - Militant abolitionist John Brown was hanged for his raid on Harper's Ferry.

1942 - The first controlled nuclear chain reaction was demonstrated at the University of Chicago.

1954 - The U.S. Senate voted to condemn Republican Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy of Wisconsin for "conduct that tends to bring the Senate into dishonor and disrepute."

1970 - The Environmental Protection Agency was established.

1982 - In the first operation of its kind, doctors at the University of Utah Medical Center implanted a permanent artificial heart into the chest of retired dentist Dr. Barney B. Clark, who lived 112 days with the device.

1988 - Benazir Bhutto was sworn in as prime minister of Pakistan, becoming the first woman to lead a Muslim nation.

1993 - Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar was shot to death by security forces in Medellin.

1999 - A Protestant and Catholic cabinet convened for the first time in Northern Ireland.

2001 - Enron Corp., under CEO Kenneth Lay, filed for bankruptcy.

2015 - A couple loyal to the Islamic State group opened fire at a holiday banquet for public employees in San Bernardino, California, killing 14 and wounding 21 before dying in a shootout with police.

2016 - A fire that raced through an illegally converted warehouse in Oakland, California during a dance party killed 36 people.

2018 - Israeli police recommended indicting prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu on bribery charges, adding to a growing list of legal troubles for the longtime leader.

Birthdays
26 - Amber Frank (actress)
27 - Afra Saracoglu (actress)
33 - Charlie Puth (singer)
36 - Alfred Enoch (actor)
37 - Teairra Mari (singer)
41 - Aaron Rodgers (football player)
41 - Daniela Ruah (actress)
41 - Yvonne Orji (actress)
41 - Jana Kramer (actress/singer)
43 - Britney Spears (singer)
46 - Nelly Furtado (singer)
51 - Monica Seles (tennis player)
56 - Lucy Liu (actress)
68 - Steven Bauer (actor)
70 - Dan Butler (actor)

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Today in Sports History - December 2
1909 - National Hockey Association (NHA) is formed in Montreal; original members include Montreal Wanderers and Montreal Canadiens; becomes NHL after some NHA teams leave due to ownership disagreements, and create their own league.

1944 - Ohio State quarterback Les Horvath wins the Heisman Trophy.

1947 - Notre Dame quarterback Johnny Lujack wins the Heisman Trophy.

1951 - The Green Bay Packers retire Don Hutson's #14.

1952 - Oklahoma running back Billy Vessels wins the Heisman Trophy.

1958 - Army running back Pete Dawkins wins the Heisman Trophy.

1963 - The Major League Rules Committee banned the use of oversized catcher's mitts. The rule went into effect in 1965.

1969 - Two years after the NHL doubled in size from six to 12 franchises, the league announces the addition of the Buffalo Sabres and Vancouver Canucks for 1970.

1984 - Dan Marino of the Miami Dolphins set an NFL record with his 40th touchdown pass of the season.

1989 - Houston quarterback Andre Ware wins the Heisman Trophy.

1991 - Former Pittsburgh Pirates outfield Bobby Bonilla becomes the highest-paid player in MLB when he agrees to a record 5-year deal with the New York Mets worth $29 million.

1993 - The Houston Rockets tie the NBA record set by the Washington Capitols in 1948-49 with their 15th consecutive victory to start the season.

1996 - Clyde Drexler of the Houston Rockets became the fourth player in NBA history with 2,000 career steals.

1997 - Latrell Sprewell's $32 million contract was terminated by the Golden State Warriors. The termination came one day after Sprewell assaulted head coach P.J. Carlesimo.

2006 - Oklahoma defeats Nebraska 21-7 to win the Big 12 Conference Championship Game.

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:

Win - A
Lose - F

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.”