Writing

Some things I’ve written . . .

• Fumbles are dumb: A theory on coin flips, opening drives and getting a lead.
• The time a Michael Jackson impersonator, living Heisman Trophies and a bunch of college football royalty got together to celebrate Tom Osborne’s retirement.
• Spectacle: An essay accompanying a sports-and-visual culture exhibition at Austin Peay’s New Gallery.
• A visit to Homewood, Alabama, for a profile of Nebraska running back Ameer Abdullah.
• Tracking down the screen printer-turned-psychologist who created the Blackshirts logo.
• This century, Nebraska football is only ever as good as the most recent Strokes album. Also, COVID.
• Column: Naiveté, home, Scott Frost, Purdue, Talking Heads
• Archiving a shamefully large collection of ball caps from my teenage years.
• An essay on the most devastating football play ever created – the option.
• A data-based search for the center of the college football recruiting universe.
• Lou Reed reviews Yeezus and it’s great.
• Spending the Kentucky Derby at one of Omaha’s last nods to its horse racing history for a short-lived cocktail column.
• A look at Nebraska football’s ever-changing history with rivalry.
• Column: The kick that killed all of the Huskers’ good craic.
• Nemesis Theory: An essay on Nebraska volleyball and how setting its sights on Penn State led the Huskers to two national championships in three seasons.

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