Mike Babcock is in his 47th season covering Nebraska football. Babcock also covered most other Husker sports at some point in his journalism career. Mike earned his undergraduate degree in English from Cal State-Chico and Masters in English (teacher preparation) from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Babcock spent seven years teaching English and Introductory Literature at Parkland Community College. Mike wrote sports part-time at the Champaign-Urbana Courier as well as for Lincoln Journal and Star for 17 years for the sports department covering Nebraska as a sports columnist. Babcock then wrote for Huskers Illustrated before Hail Varsity and Hurrdat Sports.
Will Bolt had no comment on the Big Ten Tournament next week in Omaha. “Well, I don’t really want to talk about the conference tournament right now because we’re not there,” he said Wednesday morning. “We still have a weekend (series) to go win ... so I’m not going to...
Late in the first half of the third game of the 1995 season, against Arizona State at Memorial Stadium in mid-September, Nebraska took a timeout before a Sun Devil punt. The timeout seemed odd, considering Nebraska led 56-21. Coach Tom Osborne said he wouldn’t have...
Here’s the pitch. Nebraska’s pitchers had a good weekend against Michigan at Haymarket Park, with good starts from Tucker Timmerman, Ty Horn and Jackson Brockett. And the bullpen mostly did its job. The Huskers used only four relievers: Luke Broderick pitched in all...
Welcome Tucker Timmerman to Nebraska’s weekend starting pitching rotation against Michigan. And not just the weekend, but the Friday-night opener at Haymarket Park. Appropriately. “He’s a dog, he’s a bulldog,” Jackson Brockett said of the sophomore right-hander. “You...
After defending national champion Nebraska football opened the 1995 season with a 64-21 victory at Oklahoma State, Tom Osborne said, an oft-quoted part of his coaching philosophy: “A lot of times a team will improve the most between the first and second game. We hope...
Larry the Cable Guy would say, “Git-R-Done.” And Nebraska baseball did. Coach Will Bolt would say, “Gritty beats pretty.” Which it did, and not just Sunday. “Oh man, tell me about it. That was not a lot ... very sweet about anything we did offensively this weekend,...
It’s more than one player, of course, but consider what Nebraska baseball senior outfielder Gabe Swansen has done in his last seven games: two grand slams, two doubles and 15 runs-batted-in. As you no doubt know, three of the RBIs came with two outs in the bottom of...
*Beginning this week, Hail Varsity Historicals will go game-by-game through Tom Osborne’s second national championship season, 1995. During a news conference the Monday before Nebraska football's 1995 opener against Oklahoma State, Thursday night in Stillwater, Tom...
Nebraska baseball didn’t start off the weekend in College Park, Maryland, right, losing to Maryland 12-5 Friday night. But the Huskers finished with a 21-5 blowout in seven innings Sunday to win the series. They defeated Maryland 6-2 Saturday. “I think we have one of...