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.
Nebraska is slated to play its fifth of 10 Big Ten series this weekend, when the Huskers travel to Iowa City to take on Iowa. The Hawkeyes, 21-10 overall, are 12-3 in conference play, second to UCLA (10-2). Nebraska is tied with Michigan State for 12th, both 4-8. The...
Iowa State was 0-8-1, Nebraska football 10-0 and top-ranked, when the teams met in Ames, Cyclone Stadium-Jack Trice Field, in mid-November 1994. Again, the Cyclones were winless with one tie. But Nebraska led only 14-12 going into the fourth quarter. The game was...
It’s day-to-day, of course. A win today doesn’t guarantee a win tomorrow. Or, in this case, wins Friday night and Saturday don’t guarantee a win Sunday, which was the story of Nebraska baseball's weekend at Haymarket Park. Nebraska defeated Rutgers Friday night 8-5...
Last Sunday’s newsletter was about Nebraska’s sixth-year quarterback Jalyn Gramstad, known to teammates and coaches as “Grandad,” the “old man.” This week’s is another, but first . . . Return to 2019. Among the popular movies were “Knives Out” and “Once Upon a Time...
Will the real Nebraska baseball team please step up? Is it the team that took two-out-of-three against then-fifth-ranked Oregon State over the weekend? Or the team that dropped games to Creighton (9-5 Tuesday at Haymarket Park) and Omaha (11-9 at Tal Anderson Field in...
After defeating second-ranked Colorado and climbing to the top of the Associated Press rankings, Nebraska football coach Tom Osborne was concerned about a Husker letdown against Kansas in early November 1994. “I didn’t have the feeling before the game that we were...
Oregon State scored three runs in the top of the seventh inning Sunday at Haymarket Park to take a 7-6 lead. In the bottom of the seventh, the first two Huskers struck out. Was it here we go again for Nebraska baseball? The Huskers had opened the series with 7-3...
Jalyn Gramstad is “Grandad” to his Nebraska teammates. You’ve no doubt seen that on social media. It was among several light moments during offensive coordinator Dana Holgorsen’s news conference Thursday. “Jalyn Gramstad is ... (we) call him ‘Grandad,’” Holgorsen...
It’s home sweet home for the Nebraska baseball team, hopefully. It’s home for sure. Sweet remains to be seen. The Huskers are scheduled to play a three-game series against Oregon State at Haymarket Park this weekend. That’s assuming weather doesn’t intrude. The...