Still a Baseball Town
by Ken Hambleton started with a red leather ball and quickly became the most popular game in town Games on Sundays were not allowed until the 1930s, but most fans ignored the law and risked...
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South Haymarket Park: An Emerald Gem for the Capital City
by Molly Nance One of the things that makes a great city is a great park. New York has Central Park, San Francisco has Golden Gate Park, Chicago has Grant Park, and within two or...
A New Youth Baseball Mecca
by Ken Hambleton The idea is simple and often repeated. As W.P. Kinsella wrote in Field of Dreams, Build it and they will come, Jeff Maul and a host of partners are going to live...
Running Through Lincoln
by Chris Whitney North to south, east to west, and everywhere in between, you are hard-pressed to find a city in the United States that offers as many paved trail options as Lincoln does. Through...
Husker Volleyball
by Ken Hambleton Nebraska continues to stamp its name all over volleyball around the world. On what seemed a whim, Nebraska volleyball coach John Cook, planted the idea of putting the Huskers in front of...
World Record Volleyball
by Ken Hambleton Volleyball Day started with smiles as big as the Plains. It ended with tears of joy, dreams of something so big and a world record for people in the stands for any...
And there’s Golf!
by Ken Hambleton If you wander down the fairways of Pioneers Golf Course, the oldest public course in town, you can almost feel the presence of all the Lincoln golfers from the last 90 years....
Lincoln Lakes
Adventures on Water by Molly Nance While Lincoln is known for its wonderful parks and bike paths, its lakes are hidden gems for outdoor recreation. Lincoln has several of these water playgrounds in and around...
BikeLNK Celebrates 5 Years in Lincoln
Bike Share in the Lincoln Community, by the Lincoln Community by Logan Spackman BikeLNK bikes landed on the streets of Lincoln in 2018 through the combined efforts of University of Nebraska-Lincoln students and administration and...
Cornhusker State Games
by Dave Mlnarik The Cornhusker State Games, held annually in mid-July, is one of the nation’s largest multi-sport athletic festivals with 70 different sports conducted at more than 50 different venues, primarily in Lincoln and...
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