Andy Staples shares Kirk Herbstreit’s side to Dylan Raiola controversy
"Kirk Herbstreit understands his job, he understands his platform. He's not going to be dumb enough to be telling people, 'Go to this school. Don't go to this school.'"
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ESPN’s Kirk Herbstreit reportedly encouraged Dylan Raiola to flip commitment from Georgia to Nebraska
The line between being a member of the media and being involved in the sports you cover has...
Texas-Nebraska volleyball championship hits record high on ABC
One last time, volleyball shone on a NFL Sunday.
Matt Rhule strangely compares Nebraska’s losing season to ‘The first people who stormed the beach at Normandy’
"Sometimes the first people to do things don't get to see the results. The first people to storm the beach at Normandy, you know."
Bears-Lions broadcast briefly switched to Creighton-Nebraska women’s college basketball
Viewers watching in Chicago and Detroit witnessed the switch.
Wisconsin-Nebraska volleyball outdraws Huskers’ football team on BTN
This match drew 612,000 viewers, more than the Northwestern-Nebraska football lead-in (560,000).
Nebraska-Illinois halftime show fizzles with fans
"For the first time in my life I'm seeing a halftime show that has absolutely ZERO to do with the game being shown."
Gus Johnson’s ‘Nebraska makes chicken salad!’ was a great start to CFB Week 1
"IT'S A TOUCHDOWN! WOW! ALEX BULLOCK! WIDE OPEN! NEBRASKA MAKES CHICKEN SALAD!"
Nebraska volleyball’s Memorial Stadium event scores strong BTN rating
Big Ten Network touted the event as the most-watched non-conference volleyball match in network history.
Nebraska AD Trev Alberts says next conference realignment will be ‘far more disruptive’
"I believe that the next go-around ... will be far more disruptive."
Robert Griffin III is a Nebraska geography wizard
RGIII absolutely nailed this question.
Urban Meyer reportedly to stay at Fox, with ‘no contact’ with Nebraska
"He's expected to stay at Fox and not pursue coaching opportunities."
Fox bizarrely feeds Urban Meyer to Nebraska speculation
"Anybody out there want Urban Meyer to be their head coach?"
Fox promoted their Nebraska-Northwestern Ireland game with a graphic including Kansas State’s mascot
Missed it by that much, Fox.
Nebraska AD Trev Alberts refutes Twitter talk of uniform change: “There won’t be any overalls on our football uniforms”
"Hate to break it to everyone. There won’t be any overalls on our football uniforms this season."
Illinois athletics department lobs “Thanks for bringing back B1G football” tweet at Nebraska after 41-23 thumping
The Illinois athletic department sent quite the tweet Saturday before later deleting it.
Nebraska’s official radio account asked readers if they thought Big Ten rules would apply to the Huskers
This was certainly an interesting decision from the Huskers' official radio account.
Indiana-Nebraska saw a sideline collision, with BTN’s sideline audio tech run over by Indiana’s Whop Philyor
This was quite the crunch.
Nebraska started a game on Fox Business Network for the second time this season, thanks to Texas Tech-Baylor overtimes
Lou Dobbs got cut off for Nebraska-Minnesota.
‘College GameDay’ in Lincoln becomes The Ballad of Dack and Lexi following proposal sign
Lexi said yes, thank goodness.
Nebraska-Northern Illinois game gets bumped to Fox Business Network due to Iowa-Iowa State delay
At least in this instance, hope you have Fox Business Network.
ESPN’s College GameDay downplayed Maurice Washington’s felony pornography charges as “some legal issues”
"A highly talented running back. He had some legal issues. He was accused of sending a video of his former girlfriend in March 2018 that involved the girl."
A Nebraska TV station came out with a “Frosty The Coach Man” song and video about Scott Frost
ESPN’s Todd McShay had to ask Scott Frost about Nebraska after UCF’s victory
"What would be your reason for not asking it?"
Les Miles couldn’t stop rooting for Nebraska in his announcing debut
Miles repeatedly used "we" about Nebraska, where his son Ben plays.
