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Preseason Nebrasketball Player Profile: Jace Piatkowski A home grown walk on who has made his way into games should improve this season Share this story Hello! Welcome one and all to our first of many Nebrasketball player profiles. Believe it or not but we are only a handful of months away from the Huskers first tipoff against Peru State! Yes, it is just an exhibition but it’s still a game. I know many of you are thinking, “isn’t it too early for basketball previews? We haven’t even hit football season yet!”. Well, we here at Corn Nation are a somewhat of a forward thinking bunch...

Nebraska Spring Game: Observations and Thoughts as White Beats Red 21-20 Share this story Jon Johnston There is no live tackling in the first half. Most people will be watching personnel groupings and trying to get clues at to the likely depth chart going into summer. There won’t be much shown in the way of offensive plays, but hopefully some great individual efforts. First Quarter Marvin Scott was called on first to carry the ball. Logan Smothers is fast. Quinton Newsome was Cam Taylor-Bitt’s running mate at cornerback for the Red team. There is a concerted effort to get Omar Manning i...

Minnesota Recap The Nebraska Cornhuskers faced the Minnesota Golden Gophers for the second time this season, and avenged their 79-61 loss earlier this year in Dinkytown with a clutch 78-74 win in Lincoln led in huge ways by senior Husker guard and longtime resident Nordic God Thorir Thorbjarnarson. By the way, if you want a great meltdown read (and, frankly, a well deserved conclusion in regards to firing Pitino Jr. who likely only was retained a year ago due to COVID-19), then definitely check out this over at The Daily Gopher. As for the action Saturday night in Lincoln, Thor got the start ...

Nebraska Lands USC Transfer Running Back Markese Stepp Share this story Photo by John Cordes/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images There wasn’t much to his announcement, but former USC running back Markese Stepp has announced he will be transferring to Nebraska. Stepp was a four-star recruit out of Indianapolis when he committed to USC and spent the last three seasons in Southern California. Weirdly, he has three seasons of eligibility left as he took a redshirt year in 2018, playing in four games. In 2019, he had 48 rushing attempts for 307 yards for a 6.4 yard per carry average. He played in...

Christmas Eve Flakes: Corn Nation’s 2020 Book Club Share this story Photo by Jos Kafoe/BSR Agency/Getty Images This is the third edition of the Corn Nation book club. The other ones can be found here and here. What is the Corn Nation book club? Well I list and recommend books as if my opinion matters at all. Narrator: It doesn’t. So with the Third Annualish Corn Nation book club here are the books I’ve read over the past year then let us know what you’ve read as well. Or maybe you just want to tell us about some great books we should read. So here. We. Go.