LINCOLN, NE – Save the date! Hurrdat Sports and Baxter Toyota Lincoln are teaming up to bring Nebraska sports fans an exclusive event featuring football and volleyball legends. Join us on Saturday, April 19, from 1-3 PM at Baxter Toyota Lincoln for a special panel...
Sausha Durkan
Hail Varsity Digest | Play Ball! Husker Baseball Season Opener | 02/13/25
Nebraska Baseball opens up it’s season Friday, February 14th, 2025. Read our preview by Mike Babcock.
Hail Varsity Digest | Mike Babcock Edition | 01/21/25
UPON FURTHER REVIEW Unfortunately for Nebraska, the NCAA didn’t institute video review in football games until the 2005 season, after the Big Ten experimented with it in 2004. Had it been used in 1993, Tom Osborne’s national championship run might’ve been four in...
Hail Varsity Digest | Mike Babcock Edition | 01/14/25
GOODBYE GIFT Nearly 30 years have passed. Times have changed, as they always do. On December 10, 1997, four days after No. 2 Nebraska defeated No. 14 Texas A&M 54-15 in the Big 12 Championship game in San Antonio, a Wednesday, Tom Osborne held a news conference...
Hail Varsity Digest | Mike Babcock Edition | 01/07/25
UP TO THE CHALLENGE Texas A&M outside linebackers John Roper and Chris Wallace were nicknamed the “Blitz Brothers.” Nebraska had to deal with them in the first game of the 1988 season, the Kickoff Classic. Roper and Husker outside linebacker Broderick Thomas...
Hail Varsity Digest | Mike Babcock Edition | 12/31/24
HERE AND THERE Since the Digest following Nebraska’s victory against Boston College in the Bad Boy Mowers Pinstripe Bowl focused on game MVP Rahmir Johnson, here are a couple of other takeaways. Ty Robinson was among the seniors who opted to play even though he’s a...
Hail Varsity Digest | Mike Babcock Edition | 12/27/24
NUMERICAL CONSIDERATION During a news conference before the Huskers left for New York City, offensive coordinator Dana Holgerson was asked how Donte Dowdell’s decision to enter the transfer portal would affect the running back room—Dowdell led Nebraska in scoring with...
Hail Varsity Digest | Mike Babcock Edition | 12/17/25
DEFINING LOSS It was arguably the most meaningful game in Tom Osborne’s coaching career until the national championship run in the 1990s, and maybe the most defining overall. Undefeated and No. 1 Nebraska lost to No. 5 Miami 31-30 in the Orange Bowl—the 50th. Miami,...
Nebraska Football Beating Iowa Changes Everything: Hurrdat Sports Radio
Today on Hurrdat Sports Radio host Ravi Lulla and Austin Jacobsen tackled the importance of the final regular season game for Nebraska Football against Iowa and the significant roster shifts looming on the horizon. A Pivotal Game Against Iowa With Nebraska securing...