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.
To quote the late Al Davis, “Just win, baby!” That’s what Nebraska did against South Dakota State Wednesday at Haymarket Park. Never mind the 5-4 score, over a team now 4-8, a team the Huskers were expected to beat. And don’t attribute the one-run edge to looking...
Cooper Katskee was, shall we say, modest following his first start for Nebraska baseball, and only his third appearance as a Husker. In Tuesday afternoon’s 8-5 victory against Omaha at Haymarket Park, Katskee said, he did the things “I’m supposed to do, that’s all it...
Call it “Nightmare on S. Donahue Drive.” That’s the location of Plainsman Park in Auburn, Alabama, home of the seventh-ranked Auburn Tigers baseball team. Nebraska baseball spent the weekend there. Friday night, the Huskers came back from a 4-0 deficit three innings...
Mac Moyer leads off this advance for Nebraska baseball’s weekend series at Auburn, which seems reasonable since he’s appears to have solidified himself as the Huskers’ lead-off hitter. Why not lead-off “batter?” Moyer is second on the team to Dylan Carey in batting...
Nebraska football outside linebacker Trev Alberts was apologetic after the sixth-ranked Huskers won their sixth in a row, 45-27 against Kansas State at Memorial Stadium in mid-October 1993. “I’m disappointed,” he said. “I don’t feel good about my own effort today.”...
Will the “real” Nebraska baseball team please stand up? Husker fans are hoping the team that showed up Sunday in Nebraska’s third game at the Amegy Bank College Baseball Series in Arlington, Texas, the one that defeated Florida State 10-1, is the “real” one. The...
Carson Jasa was Nebraska baseball’s starting pitcher at Kansas State late last March in Manhattan, giving up eight runs in one inning, on four hits, three walks, a hit batter and a wild pitch. Only three of the runs were earned, nevertheless... “I remember it sucked,...
According to “Endymion,” the John Keats poem: “A thing of beauty is a joy forever.” Tom Osborne’s 200th career victory with Nebraska football would be a joy forever, you could say. But it “wasn’t a thing of beauty,” Osborne said, following 7th-ranked Nebraska’s 27-13...
It was fun while it lasted, Nebraska baseball’s three consecutive victories at the MLB Desert Invitational in Arizona to start the season that is. But the fourth game Monday, against Stanford, wasn’t fun. The Cardinal scored six runs in the first inning on the way to...