The Nebraska sand volleyball team announced the upcoming schedule for the 2013 season on Monday.

Creighton forward Doug McDermott has been named the Missouri Valley Conference Player of the Week after averaging 27.0 points, 8.5 rebounds and 3.5 assists in a pair of double-digit victories last week.

They won one, and they lost one. A one and one week has sent the Creighton men’s basketball team slipping to #17 in the weekly USA Today coaches poll. They were #12 the previous week.

Supporters of longtime Penn State football coach Joe Paterno are marking the anniversary of his death with a candlelight vigil.

A tough loss at Wichita State this past weekend sent the Creighton Bluejays slipping in the polls Monday.

An assault case involving former-Husker and current New England Patriots rookie defensive back Alfonzo Dennard has been scheduled for next month.

After opting to stay with the Oregon Ducks a little more than a week ago, Head Coach Chip Kelly changed his mind and decided to take an NFL job as head coach of the Philadelphia Eagles.

Retired Nebraska coach Tom Osborne isn't getting drawn into arguments over how his 1990s teams that won three national championships in four years would fare against the Alabama teams that just accomplished the same feat.

Rory McIlroy says he may skip the 2016 Olympics because of the dilemma over which country to represent.

Lindsey Moore scored 26 points and made five 3-pointers and Jordan Hooper added 14 points to lead No. 25 Nebraska to a 70-52 victory against Wisconsin on Wednesday night.

Iowa State might have the best defense no one outside of Ames has heard of this season.

Texas coach Rick Barnes would not directly comment Wednesday night on a report that guard Myck Kabongo will be suspended by the NCAA for the rest of the season.

Tennessee has hired Butch Jones from Cincinnati as their next head football coach, putting to an end Internet reports that Nebraska's Bo Pelini was interested in the Volunteer's top job.

Two former high-ranking Penn State officials want to delay their preliminary hearings on charges they concealed child sexual abuse allegations against former assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky.

The Ohio Supreme Court has suspended for a year the law license of an attorney whose emails to Jim Tressel triggered an ongoing scandal and NCAA investigation that cost the coach his job at Ohio State.

The Atlanta Falcons have announced the signing of offensive guard Harland Gunn after backup lineman Joe Hawley received a four-game suspension for violating NFL rules on performance-enhancing substances.

An Omaha, Neb. man and a couple from Clinton, Iowa will represent their respective states as “citizen heroes” when the University of Nebraska Cornhuskers meet the University of Iowa Hawkeyes on Friday, Nov. 23rd in the second-annual Heroes Game.

Penn State's Bill O'Brien keeps his team focused on the next game - always.

Iowa isn't giving up on Kirk Ferentz despite a third straight season of diminishing results.

Iowa State is beat up after a brutal seven-week stretch that included five losses against Top 25 teams.

Michigan has been able to count on its defense all season long while the offense has struggled for consistency.

Tommy Tuberville took full responsibility for losing his cool with a Texas Tech graduate assistant along the sideline during Saturday's win over Kansas.

The NCAA says the men’s NCAA basketball tournament will be returning to Omaha in 2015. The city previously hosted the second and third rounds in 2008 and 2012.

Nebraska quarterback Taylor Martinez is the Big Ten offensive player of the week for the second time in three weeks.

Nebraska coach Bo Pelini says Rex Burkhead's status for this week's game against Penn State is unclear.