Dead Dog Alley

We will be the only team in history with a man named Matar on the roster and a guy sitting in the front row who voiced an animated movie character named Mater

Where does he stand on the Dedoch Chan late summer addition scale?

It's time to promote some equality for short unathletic people and recruit a 5'11" center

Non conference schedules that are death marches haven't seemed to work out very often for this program.

I've been hearing about his basketball ability since he was a fourth grader, since I worked with one of his close relatives. Originally the goal was to play basketball at Chadron State or UNK. When he was a seventh grader I told my coworker, you know that a lot of Division 1 and NFL tight ends would otherwise have been Division 2 basketball players. (I think they figured that part out on their own regardless of what I said.)

Another second best song... Also, the lead singer was born in Omaha. If you never saw SCTV or heard Sushi Girl (I don't think its really about fish) they made an appearance on the Fishin Musiciian:

Not even their best song! Also, the lead singer's brother was briefly famous for being Jack Kevorkian's attorney.

A song about Thursday nights and what once was apparently a weekly tradition in this state:

Since I was 6 when it was released, I honestly didn't know what the song was about (Loretta Lynn's partial native american ancestry), or even that it was a country song, I assumed it was some disco artist or something cashing in on the bicentennial. But the wierd thing is I can remember the last time and maybe only time I heard it - on July 4, 1976, riding in the back of a car on the way to my uncle's house by Holdrege. (Maybe it's because my sister sang the chorus for about 10 minutes just to torture me....)

I thought i remembered hearing this song in 1976, except that I was hoping that I was misremembering and that this song never existed. But, I looked it up, and it was real. i didn't know it was Loretta Lynn. There's a reason it never got played after the bicentennial was over; it's not very good. Don't listen unless you have a fork nearby that you can stab yourself in the brain with. Edit: it wasn't as bad as I remembered it being, but I was 6 the last time I heard it. It probably helps that it is a direct ripoff of Kawliga from Hank Williams. Still, the chorus is not something you want reverberating in your head.

Tom Haase, Kirk Penner, Mike Boss, and who were the other two starters? Jay Nachtigal? I'm not remembering.

Ahron Uhlis splitting time with Joe Toussaint is the natural state of the universe

Question for Jacob Padilla: what would Carter Nelson's ceiling in basketball have been if that had stayed his main focus?

Multiple draft picks this year, or this century?

So, you're predicting a 15-5 conference record?

Little known fact: the Bay City Rollers are the only Scottish rock stars that didn’t drink themselves to death.

I wonder if that Nebreska squad has ever won a tournament game

Underpants coached a good 25 points out of him over the course of a season at Illinois, not too shabby. Last year Illinois had a Final 8 roster and a top 500 coaching job.

If those incompetent idiots at the lottery commission would just draw the right numbers sometime, this wouldn't be a problem. They have to know that I'm supposed to win, but yet they never get it right. I just can't figure it out.

The first hand account from Bobby Mills regarding the end of the Michigan game (https://www.mccookgazette.com/blogs/1466/entry/61434) With only a few seconds left and trailing 73-72, Nebraska's Grant Simmons inbounded the ball to Fred Hare at half court. Hare launched a desperation shot that caromed off the front of the rim. But Hare usually followed his shots. On this day, Hare sprinted toward the basket, overran the ball, but caught it over his head with his back to the Husker basket. WITHOUT turning around, the magical Fred Hare simply threw a backwards pass over his head and the ball sailed through the hoop. BANG! Nebraska had just upset the number one team in the entire country, 74-73. . I never saw anything like in my life and haven't since.

The town straight north of Hampton

A musical act playing at the local establishment did a country version of this - and it wasn't bad.