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The Girls State Basketball Tournament continues today in Lincoln. Read more
The Boys State Basketball Tournament bracket has been released by the NSAA. Read more
This week’s Hausmann Physical Therapy Star Athlete of the Week goes to Annika Harthoorn of the Norfolk High girls swim team. Read more
Five Nebraska wrestlers were in the top five in preliminary seedings for this weekend's Big Ten Championships. Read more
Creighton coach Greg McDermott has apologized for urging his players to “stay on the plantation” in a postgame locker room talk following a loss over the weekend. Read more
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Lat Mayen scored 25 points with five three-pointers and five rebounds and home-team Nebraska cruised past Rutgers 72-51. Read more
Lat Mayen scored 25 points with five three-pointers and five rebounds and home-team Nebraska cruised past Rutgers 72-51. Mayen capped a 7-0 run to give the Huskers a 23-11 lead and they led by at least eight points the rest of the way. Teammates Derrick Walker had 14 points and six rebound… Read more
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Kurt Kohler, dean of student life and athletics at Northeast Community College has announced his resignation, effective March 1, 2021. Read more
The Nebraska volleyball team remains fourth and Creighton is once again 23rd in the latest American Volleyball Coaches Association rankings. Read more
The Creighton men’s basketball team has slipped from 13th to 14th in the latest Associated Press Top 25 poll. Read more
The Nebraska basketball team's leading scorer has left the team. Six days after scoring 41 points in a game, the second-most points in school history, Teddy Allen is leaving the Nebraska basketball program. Read more
Checking out the local schedule for today, boys basketball district finals are held across the state for the right to the State Tournament. Read more
The Northeast Hawks men's basketball team is 3-10 on the season after a 1-2 week. They lost at home to Southwestern of Iowa 86-73 last Tuesday, won in Iowa Falls over Ellsworth last Thursday 72-63, and then lost at home to eighth ranked in Division I Indian Hills of Iowa 108-86. Read more
Giannis Antetokounmpo poured in 36 points with 14 rebounds, five assists, and four blocked shots and the Milwaukee Bucks closed on a 9-0 run to earn their fifth straight win since a five-game skid, 105-100 over the Los Angeles Clippers. The reigning MVP put Milwaukee ahead with a pair of fr… Read more
The No. 14 Northeast Community College baseball team lost the first game of a doubleheader, 14-4 on Sunday, before taking the final game of the series, 11-5 over Neosho County Community College in Chanute, Kan. Read more
The Lutheran High Northeast girls basketball team finished their season at 11-10 after a 49-36 loss to Norfolk Catholic in a C-2-6 Sub-District semifinal at Clarkson on February 16th. Read more
The Norfolk Catholic boys basketball team’s season came to an end last Tuesday at 14-9 after falling to Battle Creek 62-54 in a C-1-8 Sub-District Semifinal at Pierce. Read more
The Norfolk High girls basketball team’s 2020-21 campaign concluded at 12-12 after dropping a 58-35 A-3 District final at Lincoln Southwest 58-35 last Thursday. Read more
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No. 8 Indian Hills Community College shot 58 percent from the field to defeat Northeast Community College, 108-86 on Saturday at the Cox Activities Center in Norfolk. Read more
The Northeast Community College volleyball team had a tough time getting in sync on Saturday afternoon, falling to North Iowa Area Community College, 14-25, 20-25 and 20-25 at the Cox Activities Center in Norfolk. Read more
The State Swimming & Diving Championships concluded at the Bob Devaney Sports Center in Lincoln on Saturday. Read more
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Norfolk High will be competing in the final day of the State Swimming & Diving Championships at the Bob Devaney Sports Center in Lincoln Saturday. Read more
The State Swimming & Diving Championships continue today at the Bob Devaney Sports Center in Lincoln. Read more
Kofi Cockburn scored 24 points and added seven rebounds to lead four players in double figures and fifth ranked home-team Illinois beat Nebraska 86-70. Read more
Nika Muhl scored 15 of her season-high 19 points in the first quarter and top ranked Connecticut won the outright Big East regular-season championship with an 81-49 victory over home-team Creighton last night. Read more
Checking out the local schedule for today, in basketball, the Norfolk High boys host Lincoln High in an A-2 District opening round game at 5:00. Read more
Tiger Woods has been moved to another Los Angeles hospital after undergoing surgery to his right leg after being badly injured in a car crash. Harbor-UCLA Medical Center yesterday said Woods was transferred to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center for “continuing orthopedic care and recovery.” Cedars… Read more
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The Northeast Community College baseball team has been itching to get back on the baseball diamond. Read more
The Northeast Community College women’s basketball team didn’t allow Ellsworth Community College to score more than 12 points in a single quarter on Thursday night. Read more
Wayne State used a 20-point, 14-rebound performance from junior forward Jordan Janssen to hold off St. Cloud State 73-70 Thursday evening in the NSIC Sanford Health Men’s Basketball Tournament quarterfinals played at the Sanford Pentagon in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. Read more
Wayne State’s Erin Norling was voted by the league coaches as the inaugural winner of the NSIC Outstanding Senior of the Year Award announced Thursday morning by the NSIC office in Burnsville, Minnesota. A native of Loretto, Minnesota, Norling is a senior majoring in biology/pre-physician a… Read more
This weekend's Nebraska at Wisconsin volleyball series has been postponed. Read more
This week’s Hausmann Physical Therapy Star Athlete of the Week goes to 113 pound Class 'D' State Champion Hunter Bennett of the Elkhorn Valley wrestling team. Read more
Marcus Zegarowski, Christian Bishop and Denzel Mahoney scored 13 points apiece and 13th ranked Creighton made fast work of DePaul in a 77-53 win. Read more
The State Swimming & Diving Championships get underway today at the Bob Devaney Sports Center. Read more
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Rudy Gobert and Jordan Clarkson each scored 18 points and the Utah Jazz routed the Los Angeles Lakers 114-89. Gobert also had nine rebounds for Utah which won for the 22nd time in its last 24 games. Twenty of those victories have come by double figures. Bojan Bogdanovic added 15 points, M… Read more
Two Wayne State College seniors were named to the 2020-21 NSIC Women’s Basketball All-Conference Team announced Wednesday morning by the NSIC office in Burnsville, Minnesota. Senior Erin Norling was voted South Division Player of the Year and was named First Team All-NSIC for a third straig… Read more
Despite a strong-hitting performance by Carly Hirsch (Norfolk, Neb.) and Payton Weber (Alliance, Neb.), the Northeast Community College volleyball team couldn’t stop No. 8 Iowa Central Community College on Tuesday night, falling in three sets, 21-25, 23-25 and 18-25 in Fort Dodge, Iowa. Read more
The Wayne State College men’s basketball team saw four players and head coach Jeff Kaminsky receive post season honors as the Northern Sun Conference announced the 2020-21 NSIC Men’s Basketball All-Conference Teams Wednesday morning. Read more
Myreon Jones scored a career-high 29 points to lead five in double figures, and Penn State held off home-team Nebraska for an 86-83 victory to snap a four-game losing streak. Read more
Authorities say there’s no immediate evidence that Tiger Woods was impaired in a car crash that left him with multiple fractures in his right leg. His surgeon said the 15-time Grand Slam champion had multiple “open fractures” to his lower right leg. The surgeon said a rod was placed in the… Read more
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Wayne State College Director of Athletics Mike Powicki has announced that Emily Hester has been hired as head women’s soccer coach at Wayne State College. Read more
Four Northeast Community College women’s basketball players scored double-digit points on Tuesday night, en route to 72-66 victory over Southwestern Community College at the Cox Activities Center in Norfolk. Read more