Lincoln Journal Star has a harrowing, but touching, piece on Rickey Thenarse.

Thenarse, a junior safety, is from the Watts area of Los Angeles. Those mean streets recently took not one, but two, of his brothers.

“You could look at it negative, but I just look at it positive. They lived a pretty rough life. I just look at it as they just escaped it,” Thenarse says. “They’re just resting in peace now. I just want to carry on the dream, hope to make the NFL and finish out my career. That’s what they wanted me to do.”

I hope he makes it to the NFL. Big time.

Everything is back to normal. I regained my sanity and hopefully didn’t send to many people away in fright once they realized what day it was.

Go Huskers!

Aleks Maric was selected, along with 21 other Seniors, to play in the NABC All Star Game this Friday in San Antonio.  This game will be played on the same floor as the Final Four for the first time in it’s history and is only open to college Seniors without any eligibility left.

He was selected by the NABC or National Association of Basketball Coaches and is the first Husker since Eric Piatkowski to play in the long running contest.  Should be pretty interesting to see how he stacks up against some of the best competition in the country.