WEDNESDAY, APRIL 10, 2013
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A: April 13, 2013 (This Saturday!)
— KU Athletics
THE MORNING BREW Sports not just about competition
This past weekend in the world of sports, we saw everything. We saw history heartbreaks surprises.
history, heartbreaks, surprises, and inspiration. The sports world realized once again that sports aren't always about competition. Rather, sports are about what makes a team or an individual great. This isn't about Louisville's men and women's basketball teams both making it to their respective championship games. It's not about how both Cy Young winners struggled in their respective games. This article is about a 7-year-old-boy who lived the dream of a lifetime.
Last Saturday, the University of Nebraska Cornhuskens football team held their spring game at their Memorial Stadium. Like any other spring game, it showed the fans how their football team is preparing and how they look for the upcoming season. What made this spring game spectacular wasn't the football team. It wasn't Bo Pelini and the rest of his coaching staff. The
spectacular moment came from 7-year-old Jack Hoffman. What does a little kid have to do with the Nebraska football program? Everything.
Hoffman became the team's inspiration for not only this game, but for next year and the years to follow. Hoffman has brain cancer and has gone through two surgeries and is in the middle of a 60-week chemotherapy regimen to suppress his tumor. In this game, Hoffman had the most running
yards out of all of the running backs with 69 yards. He did that in one play, getting the handoff from quarterback Taylor Martinez. He ran the ball toward the left side of the line before cutting back and swinging to the right of the pack, carrying the ball all the way to the end zone for the touchdown. Going along with the play, the rest of the players followed, jogging behind Hoffman waving and clapping their hands in the air as the crowd of 60,174 stood, applauded, and cheered him on into the end zone. After scoring, the football team lifted Jack into the air, letting him enjoy the moment as his father watched from the sideline with tears in his eyes.
Jack wore the number 22, the same number as star runningback Rex Burkhead. Burkhead, who couldn't attend due to preparations for the NLAF, draft, had befriended Hoffman during treatment, and with the help of teammates and staff, they were able to make that play happen. It brought both
sides even closer to each other and created something that both will never forget.
Right now, Hoffman is on a two-week break from the chemotherapy regimen. A recent MRI scan from the Children's Hospital in Boston, where Hoffman was being treated, showed that the tumor has shrunk tremendously within the past year. What the Nebraska football team showed in this game was not only inspiration and appreciation, but why we love sports. The best stories come from the greatest moments. Thank you Nebraska. You captivated the hearts of every sports fan.
This week in athletics
Edited by Brian Sisk
Wednesday
Thursday
Baseball
lowa
4 p.m.
lowa City, lowa
No events are scheduled.
Friday
Women's Tennis
Texas
2 p.m.
Lawrence
Saturday
Baseball
Texas
6 p.m.
Lawrence
Women's Soccer
South Dakota St
10 a.m.
Lawrence
Softball
Furman University
Noon
Greensville, S.C.
Sunday
Football
Spring Game
1 p.m.
Lawrence
Softball
Furman University
10 a.m.
Greensville, S.C.
Women's Tennis
Texas Tech
Noon
Lawrence
Softball
Furman University
2 p.m.
Greensville, S.C.
No events are scheduled.
Baseball
Texas
1 p.m.
Lawrence
Monday
Tuesday
Jays Baseball Creighton 6:30 p.m. Omaha, Neb
MEN'S BASKETBALL
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Rutgers University Board of Governors discusses coaching adviser
NEWARK, N.J. — Rutgers University is pledging to get to the bottom of how a basketball coach who kicked and shoved players and used gay slurs as he yelled at them was allowed to stay
on the job — and to make sure the same thing isn't happening in other sports.
Mike Rice.
The university said Monday that the school's Board of Governors would meet Thursday to discuss hiring an adviser to report on what went wrong with
University President Robert Barchi said that employees are going through practice session videos from other sports to see if any other troubling behavior needs to be rooted out.
The scandal has had far-reach
ing implications on the university's athletic department.
Rice was fired on April 3, a day after a video of him at practice was made public. Athletic Director Tim Perrett later resigned, as did an assistant basketball coach and the university's top in-house
lawver.
On Monday, the university chose former dean Carl Kirschner to serve as athletic director while they search for someone to fill the job permanently.
There's been widespread anger over the video, which was presented to university officials in November by a former basketball program employee who last week sued the university, claiming he was let go because he was a whistle-blower.
Gov. Chris Christie said at a news conference Monday that
Rice needed to be fired promptly and that his antics cost him credibility with athletes and their families.
"What parent would let this animal back into their living room to try to recruit their son after this video?" he asked.
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