Jake Knabel, Concordia's Director of Athletic Communications, writes about Max Country and Concordia's media partnership, which is entering its eighth year. NOTE: A version of this story first appeared in the summer 2022 edition of Concordia’s Broadcaster magazine. On July 24, 2015, Concordia University Nebraska and the Nebraska Rural Radio…
The Big Ten has announced its new, seven-year media rights deal with Fox, NBC and CBS that is believed to be the richest ever struck with a college sports conference. A person familiar with the contracts tells The Associated Press that the conference's soon-to-be 16 member universities eventually will share…
Lincoln-The NSAA Board of control voted on Wednesday for changing how the girls state wrestling tournament will be conducted this February. The Board voted 8-0 to increase the number of qualifiers to 16 per weight class and the board voted 8-0 to increase the number of weight classes to 14…
Lincoln-Nebraska Men’s Basketball Coach Fred Hoiberg announced Wednesday that Ernie Zeigler will join the Husker coaching staff. Zeigler bring more than two decades of Division I experience to Nebraska, including six seasons at Central Michigan as a head coach. He spent the last seven years at Mississippi State, helping the…
Campio Sports announced the matchups for the inaugural Battle in the Vault, which will take place at Pinnacle Bank Arena on Tuesday, Dec. 20. In addition to the Huskers' contest with Queens University which had been previously announced, Mississippi State will face Drake, while Concordia will host Oklahoma Wesleyan. Start…
The Nebraska volleyball team was ranked No. 1 in the preseason AVCA Coaches Poll released on Monday. The Huskers collected 1,538 points in the poll and came in ahead of No. 2 Texas (1,528), No. 3 Wisconsin (1,439), No. 4 Louisville (1,317) and No. 5 Minnesota (1,251). Nebraska got 24 first-place…
(Sioux City, Iowa) – The University of Jamestown tallied 115 points and was picked first in the 2022 Great Plains Athletic Conference (GPAC) Preseason Coaches' Volleyball Poll. The Jimmies garnered six of the twelve first place votes. Midland, was picked second in the poll with 111 points and three first…
A viral moment that made the rounds on a series of ESPN shows has been honored appropriately by the Nebraska Broadcasters Association. On Wednesday (Aug. 10), the association awarded KTMX 104.9 Max Country and Concordia University with the Gold Award for Best Sports Broadcast. The award was handed out in…
Nebraska Head Coach Scott Frost met with members of the media following day eight of fall camp Friday. Frost spoke on Friday's practice and the progress during fall camp. "We are eight days into practice seeing a lot of really good things out there," Frost said. "We still have a…
Nebraska special teams coordinator Bill Busch met with members of the media following day seven of fall camp Thursday. Busch spoke on Thursday's practice and on the effort from the start of fall camp. "Just got done with practice number seven," Busch said. "Been very pleased with our effort. Effort…
