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Health Insurance for Athletes: Growing Concern
Healthcare and Health Insurance for Athletes Athletes spend decades turning their bodies into finely honed tools for one specific motion. Regardless of whether that motion is throwing a baseball, landing a backflip, or spiking a volleyball, athletes push their bodies to the extreme of possibilities. While playing in college or professionally, healthcare and health insurance…
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From The AD’s Office: Joel Smith Chadron State College
From The AD’s Office: Joel Smith Chadron State College MANY NEBRASKANS KNOW CHADRON STATE AS THE ALMA MATER OF TWO POPULAR NFL PLAYERS OF THE LAST GENERATION DON BEEBE AND DANNY WOODHEAD. HOW MUCH HAVE THEY MEANT TO THE PROGRAM LONG AFTER THEY PLAYED THEIR LAST GAME THERE? Both Don and Danny have been the…
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50 Years Campaign
50 Years Campaign NEBRASKA FOOTBALL 1970: THE BIRTH OF A DYNASTY January 14, 1971….The President of the United States made a special stop to personally declare college football’s National Champion. Air Force One landed in Lincoln carrying President Richard M. Nixon for celebration before a packed NU Coliseum. He presented a presidential plaque detailing the…
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Veteran Fund Raising Executive Dobbs To Join The Nebraska Greats Foundation
Veteran Fund Raising Executive Dobbs To Join The Nebraska Greats Foundation The Nebraska Greats Foundation (www.negreats.org) a 501C-3 public foundation which serves the medical needs of former Nebraska collegiate athletes is proud to announce the addition of Development Executive Mike Dobbs. He will serve as Chief Development Officer and begin officially on January 4, 2021.…
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From The AD’s Office: Bill Moos, UNL
From The AD’s Office: Bill Moos, UNL Longtime College athletics Administrator Bill Moos took over the reins of Husker Athletics in 2018 and immediately set upon the task of making Husker athletics competitive again for both Conference Titles and National Championships in some of the highest profile sports. Since his arrival in Lincoln, he has…
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Former Husker Latest Sports Hero Supported by the Nebraska Greats Foundation
Former Husker Latest Sports Hero Supported by the Nebraska Greats Foundation The Nebraska Greats Foundation (501C-3) www.negreats.com is pleased to announce its latest grant award. Former Nebraska Football walk-on Cartier Walker applied for assistance with lingering expenses related to his recent bout with prostate cancer. These were expenses not covered by health insurance. Says Walker…
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Spotlight on NGF Board Member Mike McGlade
Spotlight on NGF Board Member Mike McGlade Current associate Dean for Administration of Finance for UNMC, Mike McGlade is a former All-Conference OG for UNK from 1976-79. Those years, the ‘Lopers won four conference titles, qualified for the NAIA playoffs twice and finished each year in the national Top 10. McGlade and wife Carol have…
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NGF Outcomes: Tim Wurth
NGF Outcomes: Tim Wurth One of the NGF’s most recent recipients is former Husker I-back Tim Wurth. He started at Burke High School in Omaha in the mid 70’s before a productive career at Nebraska. He lettered on the 1977, ’78 and ’79 Husker FB teams as a quality back up to I.M. Hipp, Rick…
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Former Chadron State and NFL running back Danny Woodhead qualifies for U.S. Amateur Four-Ball Championship
Former Chadron State and NFL running back Danny Woodhead qualifies for U.S. Amateur Four-Ball Championship This article originally published on Pro Football Talk Former NFL running back Danny Woodhead qualified for the 2021 U.S. Amateur Four-Ball Championship set to be held at Chambers Bay in University Place, Wash. Woodhead and partner Michael Wilhelm combined to…
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