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Flakes: Winter Sports, Thanks Clemson, and Pain

We take a look at some Husker winter sports, especially wrestling. We also have a preseason All-American...IN BASEBALL. We also wonder about pain. What was the worst you ever experienced?

By ranchbabe
David McGee

Alright Husker fans. We owe Clemson a collective thank you for putting an end to this "Is 2016 Bama as good as the 1995 Huskers nonsense". As an aside, wasn't that an amazing national championship game? In 2009, Clemson went down to Bo Pelini's Cornhuskers. Both teams have gone in slightly different directions since then, haven't they? Here's to seeing some recruits that can shore up both lines and help move Nebraska back in that direction.

Last night, the women's basketball team picked up their first win in a month. They defeated the Rutgers Scarlet Knights 62-58. Rutgers is a really well-coached team that is generally known for being a lockdown defensive team. Jessica Shepard posted a double double with 22 points and 11 rebounds. Freshman Hannah Whitish is making the most of her opportunity in the starting lineup and contributed 11 points.

This team has a lot of growing to do, but they have some nice pieces with which to build.

Corn Flakes

Indoor track season is upon us! Huskers Begin 2017 Season in USTFCCA Top 30 - Huskers.com - Nebraska Athletics Official Web Site
The Nebraska track and field teams will both begin the season in the top 30 of the USTFCCCA preseason rankings, which were released on Monday.

Husker wrestlers stumble against No. 2 Penn State | Wrestling | journalstar.com
Even Aaron Studebaker thought there wasn’t much to celebrate in No. 7 Nebraska’s 27-14 loss to second-ranked Penn State on Sunday at the Devaney Sports Center.

For those of you that follow wresting recruiting... Husker wrestling adds talented trio
Nebraska Wrestling Head Coach Mark Manning announced the addition of Trevor Nichelson, Andrew Nielsen and Wyatt Wriedt to the program on Monday.

Baseball is coming soon. Meyers Named Preseason All-American by Perfect Game - Huskers.com - Nebraska Athletics Official Web Site
Lincoln - Perfect Game released its Rawlings Preseason All-American teams on Monday and Nebraska junior Jake Meyers was a third-team pick. Meyers was the utility selection on the third team and was one of two Big Ten players named across the three teams, joining Maryland’s Kevin Smith, who was the first-team shortstop selection.

HAMAR: Huskers fall, but more crazy is ahead - The Grand Island Independent: Latest Huskers News
LINCOLN — As Tim Miles watched his Nebraska basketball team practice Saturday, he might have felt a little like Chevy Chase in "National Lampoon’s Vacation."

Elsewhere In Sports

This is incredibly sad. Our thoughts and prayers go out to Jordan's family, friends, and teammates. Autopsy: Northwestern basketball player Jordan Hankins took her own life
The Cook County medical examiner says Northwestern women's basketball player Jordan Hankins killed herself in her dorm room earlier this week.

No preseason No. 1 college football team has won a national title since 2004 - SBNation.com
Alabama could have been the first since 2004 on Monday night.

Marshall Faulk, Peyton Manning, Steve Spurrier elected to College Football Hall of Fame
There are a lot of recognizable names in the latest College Football Hall of Fame class.

Sigh. I guess we should have expected this. Alabama tops odds for 2018 national title
Clemson hasn’t even been the national champion for a full 24 hours yet, and folks are already looking ahead to next season.

Can you imagine what humanity could accomplish if we put the people-hours that went into this into something useful? What if we volunteered somewhere? Helped build houses for the homeless? How a group of Redditors is creating a fake stock market to figure out the value of memes - The Verge
Like jokes, dreams, and teen culture, it’s uncool to explain a meme. Explanations take effort, and effort is antithetical to an art form that begs to be perceived as effortless. r/MemeEconomy is a...

Then There's This

What is the worst pain you've every experienced? I suppose I could say childbirth, but I honestly can't say it was that bad. I've never broken a bone. I don't have migraine headaches. I did once have a sinus infection that was so bad and had none of the normal symptoms, so the doctors were testing me for meningitis. Those headaches were pretty painful. I did dislocate a hip when I was 12 years old. I don't remember the pain as much as I remember being scared because I couldn't get up and walk.

Measuring pain: How much does it hurt? | Ars Technica
Aching, throbbing, excruciating—pain remains difficult to describe and impossible to see.

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