Husker News: Baseball Series Win, Softball Swept, and Offense Dominated the Spring Football Scrimmage

In the video below, Matt Rhule talked about the offense dominating the scrimmage on Saturday. That was a welcome piece of information after many years of reminding myself “the defense is always ahead of the offense at this point”.

I’m also not going to read too much into this and develop high hopes for an amazing season. I don’t want my heart to be crushed again.

How about you? What are your thoughts on what the good showing by the offense means?

Corn Flakes

Nebraska Baseball Leaves No Doubt in Taking the Series from Maryland, 16-4 – Corn Nation
A big time response from the Huskers a day after being completely humbled by the Terps.

Husker Softball Recap – Nebraska 3 Michigan 11 – Corn Nation
Nebraska returns to Lincoln on a 3 game losing streak after dropping the final game of the weekend to the Wolverines

Men’s Gymnastics: Huskers Produce Five All-Americans in NCAA Finals – University of Nebraska – Official Athletics Website
Nebraska men’s gymnastics made their seventh consecutive appearance at the NCAA Championship Final on Saturday evening, where they tallied 10 total All-America honors and a fourth-place finish (412.427).

2025 Tight End Reiman Zebert Calls Nebraska Visit ‘Awesome’
In-state prospect with a Husker offer watched Saturday’s scrimmage and spent time with staffers

Sports!

London Marathon 2024 results: Peres Jepchirchir breaks women’s only world record – BBC Sport
Olympic champion Peres Jepchirchir storms to victory in a women’s only world-record time of two hours 16 minutes and 16 seconds at the London Marathon.

Better-Than Team for 2024 NFL Draft: Here are the prospects Pete Prisco likes more than scouts do – CBSSports.com
Utah do-it-all safety Sione Vaki captains Prisco’s 2024 Better-Than Team

Shohei Ohtani breaks Hideki Matsui’s MLB record for HRs by Japanese-born player – Yahoo Sports
Shohei Ohtani keeps dominating.

Then There’s This

Long-lost first model of the USS Enterprise from ‘Star Trek’ boldly goes home after twisting voyage | AP News
The first USS Enterprise has boldly gone back home, solving a decades-long mystery. The model used in the opening credits of the original “Star Trek” television series has been returned to the son of creator Gene Roddenberry.

Social media revives chip art AKA silicon doodles and keeps its history alive : NPR
https://www.npr.org/2024/04/16/1242941475/new-generation-chip-art-silicon-doodles-engineers-microchip?ft=nprml&f=1019