• Marlon Lucky and Joe Ganz appear on award watch lists
• Eshaunte Jones appears to be headed to Nebraska
• Want to play NCAA Football 2008 with Grant Wistrom?
• Will Khiry Cooper stay in Lincoln or sign with the Los Angeles Angels?
• Hunter Teafatiller gets third DUI in the last year
• Walter Roese has joined the Nebraska mens basketball staff
• Huskers host regionals this weekend
• What former Husker Trev Alberts thinks about the 2008 team
• Husker hoops recruit Roburt Sallie won’t be making it to Lincoln
• Dorn and Herr save the day
• Huskers Drop 4th Straight to Bears
• Big inning sinks #5 Huskers
• Huskers get commitment #5 as Dontrayevous Robinson pledges
• C.J. Zimmerer gets Nebraska offer and quickly accepts
• Huskers sweep doubleheader with dramatic comebacks

Award watch lists are starting to make their way out into publications and websites for the upcoming college football season and so two Nebraska players made it on lists today.  Marlon Lucky has been named to the 2008 Maxwell Award watch list, which is given annually to the nation’s top player by the Maxwell Football Club. Joe Ganz has been named to the watch list for the Jonny Unitas Golden Arm Award, given to the nation’s top senior quarterback.

Congrats to Lucky and Ganz, but I’m sure they both know it is all just preseason talk and nothing will happen until they step on to the field and have a great season for the University of Nebraska Football team.

It appears that Nebraska head coach Doc Sadler has finally got a recruit to come to the Univesity of Nebraska and play basketball.  Eshaunte Jones a 6-foot-4 guard who spent last season at Hargrave Military in Virginia, will enroll at Nebraska at the end of the summer, according to his travel team coach Eric Vaughn.

After the whole Roburt Sallie incident (who has now signed with Memphis) Coach Sadler really needed to get sign a player for the upcoming season and it looks like Jones is that man.  Jones has said that he got along well with the coaching staff when he visited and he really liked Lincoln.

Kentucky, Pittsburgh, and Baylor were also rumored to be in the hunt for Jones.

Good morning Husker fans, I received a pretty cool e-mail this morning about former Nebraska Football legend Grant Wistrom who will be playing NCAA 2008 on the XBOX 360 with in store fans and with fans on XBOX Live.  Grant’s gamertag is: GWistrom98 and he will be on live from 11:00 am to 2:00 pm CT (12:00 pm to 3:00 pm ET).

If you want to watch live or take Mr. Wistrom on in a game in person head down too the following location right now!

Windstream Retail Store
2901 Pine Lake Road
Lincoln, NE 68516

Nebraska football and baseball recruit Khiry Cooper as most people know was drafted last week in the 5th round of the Major League Baseball draft by the Los Angeles Angels.  Cooper is still unsure if he will sign with the Angels or stay in Lincoln and be part of the Huskers.

Right now Cooper is in Lincoln but has dropped his summer classes that he had planned on taking.  Once a player is enrolled in a division one school, he would not be able to be drafted once again until after their junior season.  Right now it is a waiting game between Cooper and the Angels.

Cooper has to decide if $125,000-$150,000 is a big enough signing bonus to pull him away from Nebraska.  He has said that he hopes to have a decision in the next week or so.

So what do you think? Will Cooper be a Husker or an Angel?

Nebraska tight end Hunter Teafatiller was charged with DUI early Monday morning as he was stopped near 11th and Cornhusker Streets in Lincoln.  Teafatiller’s blew a .2 which is more then twice the legal limit.

Head coach Bo Pelini has talked with Tafatiller about his problem and made him aware of the internal discipline he will face throughout the summer. Further discipline regarding Hunter’s playing status for the 2008 season will be determined as the case is resolved through the legal process.

I would not be suprised if he is actually kicked off the team to be honest.  This is third time for the same problem in the last year.  You would think he would have learned by now…

Walter Roese has decided to join the Nebraska Mens Basketball staff.  Roese had been with San Diego the last year and previously with BYU the two years before going to San Diego.

One big reason why Doc Sadler wanted Roese on the staff is because he is well known in international basketball.  Roese is a native of Brazil who is fluent in three languages. He coached the Brazilian Junior National team and the Brazilian squad for the 2007 World University Games.

Nebraska Basketball

Lincoln, NE - The Huskers earned a regional host this year after winning 40 games.  The regional teams are #4 seed Eastern Illinois, #3 seed Oral Roberts, and the #2 seed University of California Irvine Anteaters.  The Anteaters were the crowd favorite last year in Omaha who went 2-2 and lost to the eventual champion Oregon State in the semi finals 7-1.

The Huskers open the regional on Friday with the #4 Eastern Illinois Panthers at 1:05pm.  The game will be televised on NETV in Nebraska and will be carried on CSTV throughout the country.

The Huskers will send Dan Jennings to the hill in place of the usual Friday starter Johnny Dorn and save Dorn for the Saturday matchup with either Oral Roberts or UC Irvine.  Johnny has been lights out this season and would be better utilized against ORU or UCI since Eastern Illinois is one of the few teams with a losing record in this year’s postseason (27-28).

I received an email last night about a new Husker video that hit YouTube.  Former Husker linebacker Trev Alberts gives his input on what he thinks of the 2008 Nebraska Football team. I agree with him that the five home games to start the season will be great and the Virginia Tech game could be a turning point for the Huskers. If they can pull off the win then I expect them to carry a lot of momentum into the Missouri game. But if they lose, well watch out against the Wildcats the following week.

So what do you think?  Do you agree with Trev?

The most highly recruited player for the Nebraska Cornhuskers in a very long time won’t be making it to Lincoln after all to play hoops for the Huskers.  Roburt Sallie and Nebraska were turned down by the Big 12 due to violation of Rule 6.2, which states that a student-athlete who enrolls at a conference school must meet initial eligibility requirements.

Back in 2006 when Sallie thought he was a Husker the first time he attended a couple of classes and that is what caused all of this problem.  Now Sallie will not be able to play any where in the Big 12 conference and is stuck trying to find another school to attend this late in the process.

What a bad deal all around…

Oklahoma City, OK - The Huskers had given up 46 runs in the last 29 innings.  They’d lost the last 4 games by a combined 30 runs.  They deseperately needed something, a spark, someone to step up and say, “Enough is enough”.  

Tonight, Johnny Dorn was that guy as the Huskers topped the Wildcats 5-2.  Dorn came in and shut down the Wildcats in impressive fashion.  He allow 2 runs, but both were unearned following a Jake Mort error at third.  He got out of rough situation after rough situation, seeming to just will his way out.  He seemed to just want it more than the other team. 

Overall, Johnny allowed 0 earned runs over 6.2 innings while striking out 3.  Zach Herr came in and at first, it looked like the bullpen might let us down again.  With 1 runner on, Zach hit the very first batter with a pitch and then uncorked a wild pitch to move both runners into scoring position.  Zach later managed to strikeout the last batter of the inning, in fact, he struck out 6 out of the 7 outs he recorded.

For the offense, Jake Opitz stole the day.  He had 2 RBIs on a large blast to left center.  Mitch Abeita and Tyler Farst also each drove in a run.

The win was the 40th of the year.  The Huskers next face the Oklahoma State Cowboys tomorrow for a chance to head to the championship game.  The Huskers need Kansas State to beat Baylor in the finale on Saturday to allow the Huskers to advance.