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Today's question: if you could pick a new sport for Nebraska to sponsor, men's or women's, what sport would that be and why?

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This Weekend's Schedule for Nebraska Athletics:

We've got a busy weekend, highlighted by a B1G wrestling match against Penn State and Nebrasketball takes on Northwestern at the Devaney Center!

Fri, Jan 25	T&F	Razorback Invitational	at Fayetteville, Ark.	1:00 p.m.
Fri, Jan 25	WGYM	Ohio State *	at Columbus, Ohio	6:00 p.m.
Sat, Jan 26	WTEN	Notre Dame vs. Georgia Tech ITA Kick-Off Weekend	at Nebraska Tennis Center	10:00 a.m.
Sat, Jan 26	SWIM	at Illinois *	at Champaign, Ill.	11:00 a.m.
Sat, Jan 26	T&F	Razorback Invitational	at Fayetteville, Ark.	11:00 a.m.
Sat, Jan 26	MBB	Northwestern *	Devaney Center	2:00 p.m. ESPNU/WatchESPN
Sat, Jan 26	WTEN	Tennessee ITA Kick-Off Weekend	Nebraska Tennis Center	2:00 p.m.
Sun, Jan 27	RFL	Withrow Invitational	at Murray, Ky.	8:00 a.m.
Sun, Jan 27	WTEN	Consolation Match ITA Kick-Off Weekend	Nebraska Tennis Center	10:00 a.m.
Sun, Jan 27	WR	Penn State *	at University Park, Pa.	1:00 p.m. BTN.com
Sun, Jan 27	MGYM	Illinois-Chicago	Devaney Center	1:00 p.m.
Sun, Jan 27	WTEN	Championship Match ITA Kick-Off Weekend	Nebraska Tennis Center	1:00 p.m.

Football

• Hail Varsity Magazine: The Geography of Recruiting

This is pretty darn cool - check it out!

• Looking Ahead to 2013 Husker Football: Wide Receivers - Corn Nation

Seriously, we're loaded. We just need to give Taylor time to throw the ball.

Wrestling

• Wrestling Preview: vs. Nebraska - Black Shoe Diaries

BSD previews this weekend's big wrestling match between the upstart Huskers and the #1 Nittany Lions.

NCAA

• NCAA botches Miami investigation: Your rules are not law, Mark Emmert - SBNation.com

Hate the NCAA? An actual lawyer is here to explain why its misconduct during its Miami Hurricanes investigation is its most nefarious deed yet.

• The NCAA is a parasite, and it always has been - SBNation.com

It's good to someone: the schools who hide for-profit businesses behind the byzantine code of amateurism, the executives at the NCAA who collect six-figure paychecks for eating lunch for a living, and for the basketball programs taking their cut of the NCAA's sale of March Madness.

Big Ten

• Michigan's Denard Robinson may be dropping in NFL draft | Michigan Wolverines | Detroit Free Press | freep.com

Scouts left the Senior Bowl on Wednesday after the final padded practices of the week, and their impressions of Michigan's Denard Robinson as a receiver were decidedly unfavorable. "Not good," one AFC scout told the Free Press. "I think he took himself from like the third, fourth round to like the sixth, seventh round."

• Some Thoughts on Recruiting: A Non-Experts Look at the B1G Class of 2013 (As it Stands Now) - Off Tackle Empire

A look at the current recruiting rankings in the Big Ten and a discussion on where things are headed.

National News

• Blindsided: How one college coach took on tragedy - CBSSports.com

Brad Bigler's was living his dream. A head basketball coach who married his college sweetheart and was raising a family. Then, in a 13-month span, his life completely changed.

Absolutely gut-wrenching.

• Senate passes resolution honoring University of Louisville football team — in Georgia | Politics

Georgia is really not a fan of Florida.

• FAT GUY TOUCHDOWN: BYU offensive line recruit runs better than you - Vanquish The Foe

That's one heck of a fullback.

• Florida State offensive coordinator heads to Miami - Yahoo! Sports

Fisher's lone remaining assistants are holdovers from former coach Bobby Bowden's staff.

That's insane.

• How Deadspin beat ESPN to the Manti Te'o scoop | January | 2013

Interesting perspective.

• Notre Dame has a football team, and it's going to keep contending - SBNation.com

We'll ignore that Notre Dame's wins against Stanford and Purdue came from officiating mistakes, not actual play on the field. We won't even talk about almost losing to Pitt or Lane Kiffin's Southern Cal team.

Oh, and they've been recruiting like a "top SEC" team for YEARS. Brian Kelly is the ONLY reason Notre Dame is going anywhere and they don't pull off another undefeated season this fall.

• Katie Couric’s Manti Te’o interview: instant reaction and analysis | Dr. Saturday - Yahoo! Sports

Was he in on it? Almost certainly. But it's also possible that he deliberately overlooked the inconsistencies because he didn't want to know the truth. He wanted to maintain the illusion.

• John Elway on Manti Te’o: ‘It’s hard for us to understand – why he wouldn’t know?’ | Dr. Saturday - Yahoo! Sports

I feel like this thing can't go well for Te'o. At best, GMs have got to be leery of his lying over the last couple of months. And you know these programs are all digging in his background more than Deadspin, ESPN or that Notre Dame investigation. I hope there's nothing else waiting.

• Voice of Te'o prankster? Couric plays voicemails - Yahoo! Sports

''He told me he wanted to end the relationship,'' O'Meara said. ''He said he wanted to stop the relationship between Lennay and Manti, but Manti didn't want Lennay to break up with him ... He said he tried to stop the game many times.''

Seems to me, if you've never met each other and it's 100% on the internet, breaking off a fake relationship is fairly easy.

FanPost

• Checkmate on the Recruiting Services Debate - Corn Nation

Bo-urne throws down some hard numbers in support of the value of recruiting services and star ratings.

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ALL. THE. BROS. (I'm glad Johnny is having fun.)

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That's all for today! Enjoy your weekend and I hope you stop by tomorrow for Nebrasketball at 2pm CT!

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