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May 15, 2015

Pride Without Pretense: The Texas BBQ Trail

It’s a little after 8 a.m. on Highway 142 in central Texas and the pick-up trucks keep pulling onto the shoulder of the road to let us pass. We’re moving quickly, but not that quickly, so I ask about this. “That’s just the Texas way,” my brother tells me. That’s…

Texas

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Pride Without Pretense: The Texas BBQ Trail
Pride Without Pretense: The Texas BBQ Trail
Texas

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Hail Varsity

·Jul 25, 2014

No Question

Go to Nebraska or stay close to home? Go pro or stay in school? With a strong family behind him and a shot at history in front of him the usual questions rarely apply to Nebraska’s Ameer Abdullah. — It’s early May in Hoover, Ala., and there are Southeastern Conference banners hanging from the streetlights. If towns talk via what they choose to promote, it could seem like a strange thing to say to an outsider. Unless you know that the SEC holds its annual media days here in…

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No Question
No Question

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·Jul 16, 2014

Smith Hits it Perfect

Nebraska kicker Patrick Smith has the night of his life. — Scott Bruhn Story and photos originally published by Hail Varsity magazine. UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — A transfer kicker walked into the only warm place in Beaver Stadium on Saturday night and wondered what to do. It was nothing more than a cinderblock room stuffed with chairs and cameras and journalists…

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Smith Hits it Perfect
Smith Hits it Perfect

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·Jul 11, 2014

Jack’s Run

On sports, life, and why we do either. — John S. Peterson Story and photos originally published by Hail Varsity magazine. “Did you cry?” I was one of 10 or 12 people still in the Memorial Stadium press box a few hours after Nebraska’s spring game last Saturday. I was working on a post-game notes column when my wife…

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Jack’s Run
Jack’s Run

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·Jan 7, 2014

Football, Illustrated

ESPN elevated the conversation with its “Film Room” broadcast of the BCS National Championship Game. — Brandon Vogel There’s nothing subtle about football. It’s a big, dumb, loud, obnoxious game and America loves it more than almost anything else. …

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Football, Illustrated
Football, Illustrated

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Jul 10, 2013

The Sad and Rapid Decline of the Ball Cap

On getting older and how to cover your head — Blame my father. He was a ball cap guy. He had, and still has, an entire filing cabinet and three storage bins full of hats. The mesh feedlot and seed supplier caps that a farmer can’t help but accumulate. He kept them all. And when he bought me my first…

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The Sad and Rapid Decline of the Ball Cap
The Sad and Rapid Decline of the Ball Cap

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Jul 3, 2013

I Only Want to Read Reviews Written by Lou Reed

Restoring my faith in music criticism — YeezyGraffiti.com Early 1990s, northwest corner of Nebraska. That’s when and where I grew up, when and where I started selecting my own music. The first part was unavoidable, the second part surprisingly difficult. Unless you’re from an equally empty part of the country, you might not understand just how hard…

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I Only Want to Read Reviews Written by Lou Reed
I Only Want to Read Reviews Written by Lou Reed

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Managing editor for Hail Varsity. Reader at large.

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