Frosted Flakes: Fails and Baseball Disappointment

Summer just started and I’ve already failed.

Last week was my first full week of summer at home with my kids. I thought we’d kick off our day on Tuesday with a trip to the zoo. I made a point to tell my youngest to put his shoes on and not his slides or sandals because he always seems to have issues with those if we are walking a lot.

He will be five next month and tries to be very independent. So, he has started buckling himself. I always take a quick look to make sure he’s got it all right, but it works well for me because there is less that I have to do to get us going.

We drive the twenty minutes or so that it takes us to get to the zoo, park and put on sunscreen while we are still in the car. I then go to help my youngest get out and notice that he has no shoes on.

I say, “Where are your shoes? You have to wear shoes to go in the zoo.”

He responds with “Oops!” and a smile.

It turns out with all that talk of which shoes he should wear, he still didn’t take any. Much to his brother’s dismay, we went home. Now we’ve been triple checking that everyone has shoes on every time we get in the car.

On to your flakes.

Nebraska baseball won the Big Ten, but it exposed why the program is a bad fit in this league – The Athletic
The league-champ Huskers travel this weekend to the home of Dave Van Horn’s top-ranked Razorbacks, but they should be playing at home.

Most Indispensable Huskers: Top tight end at No. 7
Here’s our best attempt at naming 21 in ’21 Most Indispensable Huskers as we crawl closer toward the season.

They are not ranked…

The 10 Most Intriguing Huskers of 2021: The Best of the Rest – Nebraska Football | Hail Varsity
The 2021 Husker roster isn’t lacking for intrigue. With the ’10 Most Intriguing’ series getting started this week, here are names who just missed the cut.

Nebraska apparel stores see rise in sales from Husker Baseball success | KHGI
Husker Baseball’s recent success has left fans clamoring for new gear, causing a boom in sales for local apparel stores. “We ordered all of these baseball jerseys, and we’re almost out of most of them because people are just excited to be cheering on their teams again,” said Maddie Pressler, Assistant Manager of Best of Big Red.

HuskerOnline – Three takes following Nebraska Baseball’s regional draw at Arkansas
Here are three takes following Nebraska’s NCAA regional tournament draw at Arkansas.

French Open 2021: Naomi Osaka withdraws from tournament after being fined for skipping media obligations – CBSSports.com
Osaka announced that she has withdrawn from the French Open and is going to “take some time away from the court”

FMIA: Roger Goodell’s Successor And 8 Issues Facing NFL In Near Future – Peter King, NBC
Peter King’s Football Morning In America column begins with a look at Roger Goodell’s future and more issues facing the NFL soon.

Virginia Cavaliers beat Maryland Terrapins 17-16 to repeat as NCAA lacrosse champions
Matt Moore and Connor Shellenberger scored four goals apiece and goalie Alex Rode made a huge save in the final seconds as Virginia held off Maryland to win its second straight NCAA men’s lacrosse championship.

NHL suspends Vegas Golden Knights forward Ryan Reaves for two games after match penalty
The NHL’s Department of Player Safety announced a two-game suspension for Vegas forward Ryan Reaves Monday, after his match penalty for attempting to injure an opponent during Game 1 vs. Colorado.

College football coaches are getting creative with the recruiting dead period finally ending June 1 – CBSSports.com
There’s a lot of pent up recruiting energy set to be released after Memorial Day

2021 NCAA baseball tournament bracket, regional matchups: SEC lands nine bids, three of top four overall seeds – CBSSports.com
The road to the College World Series in Omaha begins in earnest very soon