How close did Nebraska come to hosting a NCAA regional? The Big Ten tournament title would have been a handy exclamation point before Selection Monday, the kind of 11th hour move to put NU over the top — if the Huskers were close.
Sam McKewon, Evan Bland and Mike Patterson break down the NCAA baseball tournament field, Nebraska's potential run and give their College World Series predictions.
Fifty years ago, a 12-year-old Girl Scout planted a "freedom tree" in honor of Vietnam War MIA Manuel Puentes. She and his family gathered there to remember the fallen soldier on Memorial Day.
Sam McKewon gives a quick breakdown on which teams got into the NCAA baseball tournament, which didn’t, and what criteria the selection committee used to decide.
The 64-team NCAA baseball tournament bracket was announced Monday. Who will win each region? Make your picks for the Road to Omaha here.
Nebraska baseball will face 2023 national runner-up Florida in its NCAA tournament opener at the Oklahoma State regional.
A Nebraska prison inmate serving a sentence for kidnapping and raping a teenage girl died Sunday at an Omaha hospital.
Officials in Nebraska and South Dakota are searching for a man last seen swimming in the Missouri River on Friday.
Tina Sullivan's Bellevue garden showcases a parade of color throughout the growing season, starting with hellebores, daffodils and tulips in the spring, then iris and peonies followed by roses, coreopsis, nepeta, baptisia and salvia.
A woman found guilty of participating in a North Omaha gunbattle last year has been sentenced to 10 to 20 years in prison.
For the second year in a row, Omaha’s Coneflower Creamery is one of 20 independent ice cream shops to be nominated for USA Today 10 Best list. Here's how you can vote for it!
Nebraska's Daniel Kaelin hasn’t shied away from embracing the competition with his fellow quarterbacks every day in practice and spring camp. “It’s only going to elevate my play.”
Omaha drivers are facing nighttime lane closures on I-480 and the West Dodge Expressway.
Here are the Omaha World-Herald's 2024 All-Nebraska, All-Class and All-Metro Conference soccer teams.
Beauty View Farm in Wahoo, Nebraska, will have an open house on June 1. The first 100 visitors will get free milk and doughnuts.
The VA is blocking the identification of remains linked to a World War II plane crash in Alaska that killed a Fremont soldier and 15 others. A damaged national cemetery is the reason why.
After the NCAA announced the 16 baseball regional hosts Sunday night, the road to the College World Series will again go through southern ballparks.
What a day. What a week. Those who witnessed it won’t soon forget the 2024 Big Ten baseball tournament — a week that may have changed Nebraska baseball and the Big Ten tourney in Omaha.
With his brother — a former Husker — in attendance, Penn State starting pitcher Travis Luensmann gave it his all on the mound as the Nittany Lions fell to Nebraska in the Big Ten baseball championship.
Nebraska completed an improbable week-long rally to beat Penn State and capture the Huskers' first-ever Big Ten tournament championship.
Just in time for the College World Series, Omaha Tap House has introduced a new drink called the Ballpark Bloody that features mini cheeseburger slider, churros with caramel dip, chips and queso and more!
The Big Ten baseball tournament isn’t leaving Omaha anytime soon. The event will remain at Schwab Field at least through 2027, the league announced Sunday.
Meet the 22 athletes named to The World-Herald's 2024 All-Nebraska soccer team.
Annika Phillips says she’s a history freak, so she’s had a wonderful time decorating her home in Omaha's Field Club neighborhood. The house, built in the early 1900s, has many original features with modern amenities.
Timbers at Lied Lodge in Nebraska City wins People magazine's nod as most beautiful restaurant in the state.
On issues from taxes to immigration, Trump and Biden agree on essentially nothing. Yet, they embraced similar approaches on trade.
Over the past couple of decades, people across the nation have been catching on to something that Omahans have known forever: Omaha has an awesome food culture.
This is not a column that will lecture about how the good old days were the best, writes Tom Shatel. But this week with the Old Goats of college football shined a light on the dichotomy between that era and the current one.
Here are the All-Metro Conference soccer teams for the 2024 season.
Jack Olson is now awaiting trial on federal felony charges of tax evasion, wire fraud and conspiracy in relation to his fundraising activities for the Omaha's Latino Peace Officers’ Association.
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Nebraska softball has made its first big transfer portal splash of the offseason, getting commitments from a pair of former in-state standouts: Hannah and Lauren Camenzind.
The new guys in the high school baseball coaching ranks will lead one team Monday at the 51st annual Collin-Orcutt All-Star Game.
Here are the Nebraska high school girls soccer All-Class teams and honorable mention selections.
Here are the Nebraska high school boys soccer All-Class teams and honorable mention selections.
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