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Nebraska Baseball Weekend Preview: Illinois

Series Preview #20 Nebraska Cornhuskers (31-10, 15-3 B1G) at Illinois Fighting Illini (20-19, 8-10 B1G) Location: Illinois Field, Champaign, IL Dates: April 24-26th Times (all CDT): Friday @ 6pm , Saturday @ 3pm, Sunday @ 1pm Coaches: Will Bolt (7th season, 201-136-1) & Dan Hartleb (21st season, 617-462-1) TV/Stream: All games on B1G+ Radio: All Nebraska games on Huskers Radio Network, Huskers.com, […]

MLB

Nebraska Men’s Basketball Gets Another Transfer in Taj Degourville

Nebraska has landed another transfer recruit, this time in Sophomore Taj Degourville. The 6’5” 215-pound guard comes from San Diego State, where he played in 33 games last season. He averaged 5.5 points, 2.8 rebounds, 3.0 assists and 0.8 steals per game last year while playing just over 19 minutes a game. He shot 37% […]

Emmett Johnson NFL Draft Profile

Height: 5’11”Weight: 200–202 lbsAge: 22 2025 Production: 251 carries, 1,451 rushing yards (5.8 YPC), 12 rushing TDs; 46 receptions, 370 receiving yards, 3 receiving TDs. Accolades: 2025 First-Team All-American (On3, CBSSports.com, Sports Illustrated, Sporting News)Second-Team All-American (Walter Camp, The Athletic)First-Team All-Big Ten Big Ten Running Back of the Year. Only Player in Program History to […]

NFL

HUSKERS SOFTBALL Recap – Our Ladies Answer the Bell: #1 NEBRASKA 11 – UNO 4

Anyone who saw the original Rocky remembers this sage piece of advice from Apollo Creed’s (and later Rocky’s) legendary trainer Duke. He was so impressive at delivering speeches and advice such as this that in Rocky IV after Duke’s pre-training monologue, Stallone said, “Thanks, Tony,” using the actor’s real name and it was left in […]

MLB

Husker Wrestling: Nebraska Led By Young Crop of Contenders This Week at Senior US Open

At the Senior level, Nebraska has seven contenders who are hoping to punch their tickets to Final X where Team USA determines its lineup for the World Championships — led by current assistant coach James Green and recent Huskers Ridge Lovett and Brock Hardy. Outside of Green, the six other Huskers entered at the Senior […]

No Magic Tonight, Kansas Beats Cornhuskers 9-7

Coming into this one, a battle between top-20 ranked teams, one had to figure that both teams would come out throwing punches.  After their game a couple of weeks back, one would hope that would be figuratively, not literally. Tucker Timmerman took the mound for his first start since Penn State last season.  The boy from Beatrice […]

HUSKER HEAT – The Corn Nation Softball Show: Who’s #1? We’re #1!!

Join us tonight at 8pm CST and listen to Mylie and I crow a bit on tonight’s episode of Husker Heat. It doesn’t guarantee them anything, but Nebraska attaining the #1 summit in a major poll for the first time in program history is big news. The Huskers swept struggling Minnesota up north as expected […]

#1 HUSKERS Mid-Week SOFTBALL: A Quick UNO Preview, How to Watch/Listen & More

HUSKER HEAT At 8PM – Join Us After the Game for the Only HUSKER SOFTBALL Podcast That’s right – Tonight and every Tuesday night at 8PM. It’s called Husker Heat and we started our 3rd season two weeks ago. With my lovely daughter Mylie as my co-host (of course I’m biased – daughter), we cover […]

Corn Flakes: Softball is #1 and Grego Earns Double Big Ten Honors

I’m glad the news of Husker Softball getting the number one ranking could distract me for a little bit yesterday. Much of the rest of the day was spent being angry at the post office and the passport office. Over a month ago we applied for passports for my two sons. In order to do […]

HUSKERS SOFTBALL Is #1 for the First Time in School History!

The Huskers took a road trip to Minnesota looking for a sweep and woke up Monday with the first #1 ranking in their history. Monday morning opened with the On3/Softball America poll moving the Huskers up from #3 to #1 leapfrogging past last week’s #1 and #2 Oklahoma and Alabama. Oklahoma went 2-2 losing to […]

Corn Flakes: Sweeps for Baseball and Softball

The diamond sports at Nebraska keep rolling along. The softball team swept Minnesota and sits on top of the Big Ten standings and at #4 in the national RPI rankings. The baseball team shook up their starting rotation and only walked off the #12 team in the country three consecutive games for a sweep of […]

Husker Baseball SWEEPS #12 USC

WHAT A WEEKEND!! Nebraska baseball sweeps USC and solidly plants itself in 2nd place in the Big Ten standings. This is the first sweep of a ranked opponent in Haymarket Park since that legendary 2015 Texas series. It also happened to be the highest attended series in the Big Ten era of Haymarket Park, and […]

MLB

Nebraska Baseball Run-Rules #12 USC 12-2 to Win Series

RrgWhat a day in Lincoln! Two of the top teams in the Big Ten to the field in front of the second biggest crowd in the Big Ten era for Haymarket Park of over 7600 people clad in red. Fresh off a walk off thriller on Friday night, Nebraska was looking to pounce on the […]

MLB

HUSKERS SOFTBALL Recap – Ouch: #3 Nebraska 17 – Minnesota 2

Sometimes in the midst of a barrage, you notice the little things. But the lead today on a sunny, but cool and windy Minnesota afternoon was the Nebraska Cornhuskers waiting two innings, then unleashing the full force of their offensive potential on the non-Sydney Schwartz portion of the Minnesota pitching staff. They scored 2, 5 […]

Nebraska Wins a Thriller 8-7 Over USC

Unbelievable!   This Nebraska Cornhusker team has fought and scratched all season when they are down and have treated their fans to some incredible wins, including some walk-off wins that have made the drive home quite a bit happier.  None of them compare to what happened tonight!   Total pandemonium broke out in the bottom of the tenth […]

Has the Portal Worked for Nebraska Football?

Nebraska is moving into the dog days of summer, grinding through workouts and getting bodies ready for the torrid fall ahead. In today’s college football landscape, the transfer portal has become the fastest way to flip a roster. Development alone no longer dictates whether a weak position group can become a strength. With NIL money […]

Nebraska Baseball Weekend Preview: USC

Series Preview #12 Southern California Trojans (30-8, 13-5 B1G) at Nebraska Cornhuskers (28-9, 12-3 B1G) Location: Hawks Field at Haymarket Park, Lincoln, NE Dates: April 17-19th Times (all CDT): Friday @ 6pm , Saturday @ 2pm, Sunday @ 12pm Coaches: Andy Stankiewicz (4th season, 472—321-3) & Will Bolt (7th season, 198-135-1) TV/Stream: All games on B1G+, Sunday also on Nebraska […]

MLB

Nebraska Announces Historic Plan to “Transform” Memorial Stadium

Well change is coming to Nebraska football and it will be felt by many. That change will be coming (pending approval) following the 2026 football season as the University of Nebraska announced this morning. Here are a few bullet points for you as well as the whole statement at the bottom. The Athletic Department has […]