Corn Flakes: Husker Baseball and Softball Sweep Opening Big Ten Conference Series

Happy Monday Corn Nation! I hope you all had a great Easter weekend with friends and/or family.

Both the softball and baseball teams registered sweeps in their first conference series. Both ended with exciting games that went to extra innings. (check out the recaps below)

I am starting to get a major case of spring fever. I want to be outside but the weather isn’t cooperating very well – rain and cool, cloudy weather. Some sun would be nice, but I’ll take the rain. After the drought conditions of the past two years, I don’t want to turn my nose up at precipitation.

How was your weekend? Let me know in the comments!

Corn Flakes

Nebraska Football: Biggest Takeaways After Week 1 Of Spring Ball, Plus Matt Rhule’s Updates On Huskers QB Competition
Recapping Week 1 of Nebraska spring ball with our biggest takeaways, plus thoughts on what Rhule said about the QBs.

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A Nebraska basketball fan favorite has been picked to compete in the 2024 3-Point Championship.

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Father of Nebraska Fullback Izaac Dickey Gives Us the Behind-the-Scenes Scoop
The Huskers are getting a small-town kid who who ‘can represent what this state is about through his work ethic’

Cornhuskers Pull Out Victory on a Wacky Day at Northwestern – Corn Nation
Nebraska ties it in the ninth and wins it in the tenth 8-7

HUSKERS SOFTBALL Recap: NEBRASKA 5 Wisconsin 4 (9 Inn) Badgers Billie Andrews Kaylin Kinney – Corn Nation
On another cool, dreary day in Madison when the bats had cooled off, the Huskers fought back for a sweep and rose to 5-0 in conference play.

Sports!

Court for women’s NCAA Tournament in Portland has 3-point lines with different distances | AP News
The 3-point line for the women’s NCAA Tournament at Moda Center had a discrepancy in distance at each end of the court that went unnoticed through four games over two days before Texas and North Carolina State were informed of the problem ahead of their Elite Eight matchup.

Women’s March Madness 2024: Reseeding tournament’s Elite Eight – ESPN
All four No. 1 seeds advanced to the Elite Eight. But are they the top four teams left in the women’s NCAA tournament? We rank the field.

Men’s March Madness 2024: Elite Eight tournament takeaways – ESPN
The Final Four is set with NC State upsetting Duke and Purdue beating Tennessee.

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After friends suggested he sell the Barbie, Bieber opened an auction on eBay, with the starting bid at 99 cents. And then within a day that price “blew up.”

Paris waiters race in century-old servers’ race ahead of Olympics : NPR
Some 200 servers speed-walked through Paris balancing trays of beverages and croissants on Sunday. Paris hasn’t held a waiters race since 2011, but brought it back ahead of the Olympics.

Netflix’s original name was ‘so bad,’ co-founder said
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