Lincoln - A capacity crowd of nearly 1,000 Husker fans attended the 2009 Football 101 event on Tuesday, June 2, presented by the Southeast Nebraska Cancer Center and the Bo Pelini Foundation.



The event was held at the University of Nebraska’s athletic facilities as a fund-raiser to help in the fight against breast cancer. At the morning session, $50,000 was donated to entities dedicated to the fight. Half of the donation went to the Southeast Nebraska Cancer Center Foundation, while th... [Read More]

Lincoln – Wrestling Insider Newsmagazine (WIN) recently announced the University of Nebraska’s incoming class is ranked third in the nation, according to the publications 2008-09 recruiting class rankings. Minnesota took top honors, while Oklahoma State was second. Oklahoma and Virginia Tech rounded out the top five.

All six wrestlers that signed a National Letter of Intent with the Huskers last fall won state titles this winter. Liberty High’s David Klingsheim took home his second consecutiv... [Read More]

Three Nebraska players were selected on day two of the 2009 National Football League Draft. Linebacker Cody Glenn was the first Husker selected in round five, followed by offensive linemen Matt Slauson and Lydon Murtha. Three other Huskers had agreed to free-agent contracts as of Sunday evening.

Glenn was selected with the 158th overall pick in the fifth round by the Washington Redskins. Glenn played the first three seasons of his Nebraska career at running back before switching to linebacker... [Read More]

Lincoln - Senior Robert Sanders captured one of Nebraska's top individual Life Skills awards on Monday, when he was honored at the third annual Hero Leadership Recognition Breakfast at Memorial Stadium.

Sanders, a 149 pounder from Blanding, Utah, finished his athletic career this March as a two-time NCAA qualifier for the Nebraska wrestling team. In the classroom, he was named to the Academic All-Big 12 team twice and to the Big 12 Commissioner's Honor Roll five times.

The Life Skills Hero... [Read More]