Nebraska Huskers: Thursday's Corn Flakes

Your balanced breakfast of Huskerdom:

• Our thoughts go out to those affected by the explosion in West, Texas.
• ICYMI: The Spring of Pelini, what if you never knew of the '90s?, Q&A about Ohio State's spring and your weekly De-Tassling.
• There's plenty of Husker Heroes who deserve a pat on the back. [Official Blog]
• Team Jack Update: How the Upper Deck card came to be [1620] and an announcement from the Team Jack Facebook page:

Due to the overwhelming demand, we are currently working with Upper Deck and the University of Nebraska on being able to exclusively offer for purchase a 5x7 Jack Hoffman Rookie Card, identical in style to the placard released yesterday by Upper Deck. We will, hopefully, be releasing more details later this week.

• The first day of college basketball's spring signing period brings 6-8, 250 pound forward Leslee Smith into the fold. [Official Site]
• Big Red baseball opens their series with Purdue on BTN at 6:00 PM central. [Official Site]
• A Recruiting News Buffet!

#Nebraska extends another offer in Florida as they just offered Gainesville (Fla.) HS WR Kenric Young. #Cornhuskers

— Derek Tyson (@DerekTysonESPN) April 17, 2013

Georgia DB Stanton Truitt "@truitt_thatruth: just got offered by Nebraska #salute"

— Josh Harvey (@joshharveyscout) April 17, 2013

#Nebraska has offered Dallas (Texas) Carter ATH Corey Avery today according to Carter coach Patrick Williams.#Huskers

— Nate Clouse (@NateClouse) April 17, 2013

Huge day for 2015 LB Rick DeBerry as he says Duke just offered him. Nebraska offered earlier today.

— Branden Hunter (@JustCallmeBHunt) April 18, 2013

• Athlon ranks Taylor Martinez as the B1G's No. 2 QB [Athlon]
• Men's track and field ranks No. 8 nationally while women's ranks No. 20 [Official Site]
• ...and it is a BUSY week for them! [Official Site]
• Discus-thrower Chad Wright was named Big Ten Male Field Athlete of the Week. [Official Site]
• Men's tennis is prepping to face their final two Big Ten opponents in Minnesota and Wisconsin. [Official Site]
• Nebraska's equipment managers took on the devils from Creighton.

It's on!!!Creighton managers v #Huskers managers!!! twitter.com/CoachMiles/sta…

— Tim Miles (@CoachMiles) April 17, 2013

Just got word that the #Nebrasketball student managers took down the Creighton managers tonight in a 3 game series. Way to go boys! #Huskers

— NU Equipment (@NUequipment) April 18, 2013