Not all Nebraska high school football teams subscribe to the “establish the run game first” philosophy every season and the year 2020 is no different. Each new high school season inevitably brings a new wave of gun slinging, air raid quarterbacks along with their stable of receivers, and this year certainly has the usual number of field generals who will light up the evening skies with their aerial circus shows...

In this installment of the 1000 Yard Rushers Series, we spotlight Cross County’s Double-Trouble Touchdown Twins, Isaac Noyd and Carter Seim, Papillion-LaVista’s fearless Cole Price, Blair’s two-time thousand yard rusher Dex Larsen, Ralston’s junior sensation Rashad Madden and his 8-Man football counterpart Aiden Aldana of Nebraska City Lourdes...

We kick off the 2020 Returning 1000 Yard Rushers series with a mixed bag of greatness, spanning all the way from the Class A, 11-Man football ranks to the wonderful world of small town Nebraska 8-Man football. Today we salute; TJ Urban-Millard South QB, Eli Larson of St. Paul, Touchdown Tommy McEvoy from Clarkson-Leigh, QB Cade Wiseman of Sutton, RB Caden Egr from Yutan, Ord RB/LB strongman Tommy Stevens and Dundy County/Stratton’s junior QB wizard, Quade Myers...

With the Class D-1/D-2 Top 10 Basketball Camp in the books at GICC, the attention will turn to Classes C-1 and C-2 Friday. North Platte St. Pats took down Humphrey St. Francis 52-37 Thursday to win the Class D Top Ten Championship at GICC. The Irish defeated Ansley-Litchfield 47-28, Mullen 40-25, McCool Junction 46-34 and lost to Humphrey/LHF 43-40 before defeating St. Francis...

Thursday and Friday will feature 2020 summertime basketball at its best and will be showcased at Grand Island Central Catholic today and tomorrow. Former Riverside head coach Joey Imus originally hosted the summertime classic in Cedar Rapids, but when Imus took the reins as head coach at Class B McCook, GICC’s...

Hastings High’s rifle-armed Jarrett Synek leads a returning group of 34 quarterbacks who threw for over a thousand yards in 2019. The 6-0, 192 pound Blond Bomber is the only quarterback returning for his 2020 season that threw for over 2,000 yards a year ago...

Here is a list of all the players chosen for All-State honors in 2019. There are four media outlets that publish All-State football teams each year. They are the Omaha World-Herald (Stu Pospisil), The Lincoln Journal-Star (Ron Powell), Huskerland Prep Report (Bob Jensen) and myself (Bobby Mills-1000 Yard Guy)...

There are 46 Nebraska high school thousand yard running backs who will return this fall for their 2020 season. Five of these elite runners will be chasing a third consecutive 1000 yard plus rushing season. Waverly, Dundy County-Stratton and Cross County all boast a pair of returning 1000 yard rushers. Both Dundy County-Stratton and Cross County compete in the 8-Man ranks, while Waverly plays at the Class B, 11-Man level...

Today we spotlight the 1955, ‘56, ‘57 and 1958 BIG TEN playoff games. *1955 - Grand Island 41-13 Scottsbluff (Played Thursday, Nov. 17th in Scottsbluff) ……………………….1……..2……..3……..4……….Final...

Today we spotlight the 1951, ‘52, ‘53 and 1954 BIG TEN playoff games. 1951 - Fremont 28-6 Scottsbluff (Game played Friday, Nov. 16th in Scottsbluff) ………………….1…….2……..3……..4……….Final...

I would like to acknowledge the man who gave me the idea for doing this series. His name is Paul Swanson, a 1981 graduate of Fremont high school, who is now the Statistician for the Minnesota Timberwolves of the NBA and the Minnesota Lynx of the WNBA...

The Big Ten Conference, formed in 1945, was one of Nebraska high schools biggest name athletic conferences for 35 years running. It was Nebraska’s outstate link to Class A sports, a conference that included two divisions of five schools each...

I though it may be interesting to take a peak at the Nebraska Prep Football Conference landscape in 1965. I was a junior in high school at the time, a starting halfback on a 7-3 GICC football team. We were in two conferences that year, the Louplatte and the Nebraska Catholic Conference...

Since the turn of the twenty first century, there have been twenty seasons of high school football played here in Nebraska. The Class A landscape is one that rarely changes, excepting the addition of new schools or programs bouncing back and forth from the lower ranks of the big boy class to the higher enrollment numbers of Class B. So, naming the top program since 2000 in Class A would be much easier than any of the lower classes in my opinion...

It was the final of six boys state basketball championships at Pinnacle Band Arena. I was front and center for the C-2 title matchup between GICC and BRLD. The entire weekend felt like we were all walking in a long corridor of uncertainty, a corridor that could be darkened and shut down in an instant by the Governor...

The Dream Race over 100 Meters is in the books. I considered all things high school (naturally) to determine who was the Fastest Nebraska Schoolboy in history. First, here is a recap of the entire process, the four Preliminary Qualifying Heats, the two Semifinal Heats, then my results...

This may be the toughest piece of writing I have ever attempted. As most of you know, I will not do any type of prep ratings, nor will I predict winners of any high school contests. It’s not the way I do things. So choosing winners in order are way outside the box for me, but during these current unsettled times I’ve had some extra time to think and rehash the many state track meets I’ve witnessed...

This is the 4th and final preliminary heat of the “Who is the Fastest Nebraska Schoolboy in History Dream Race”. This of course, is a 100 meters event, commonly used to determine the world’ fastest human. In this case, we ‘ll use that distance to determine our fastest high school aged human...

The lane assignments have finally been completed “Who is the Fastest Nebraska Schoolboy in History Dream Race”. We are now up to Heat Three (of 4) of the preliminary heats. Heats One and Two were previously posted and here is how they appear:...

The lane assignments have finally been completed “Who is the Fastest Nebraska Schoolboy in History Dream Race”. A project that brings together long hours of research and personal recollections, bringing together the greatest sprinters of all time...