Baseball in Lincoln: Home Runs & New Horizons
by Ken Hambleton • photos by Tom Tidball Baseball grew in Lincoln in 2025, and there is no end in sight. Nebraska won its second consecutive Big Ten baseball tournament, and the city started its...
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Golf in Lincoln
by Ken Hambleton Golf is a club-and-ball sport in which players use various clubs to hit a ball into a series of holes on a course in as few strokes as possible… The best keeps...
Fun for Kids in Lincoln
by Mary Friesen These are only some of the activities for children and families in Lincoln. Some were designed and built just for kids and some are fun for almost anyone. So if there are...
Baseball Town
by Ken Hambleton Baseball is the king of spring in Lincoln again. After four runner-up conference finishes in more than 100 years of college baseball in Lincoln, Nebraska tore through the Big Ten Conference tournament...
Developing the Sandhills Global Youth Complex and Downtown Lincoln Convention Center
by Chris Whitney Lincoln’s skyline continues to evolve, and with it comes new opportunities and events to welcome visitors into our community and keep them coming back for more. Two venues — the Sandhills Global...
Game, Set, Match: Tennis in Lincoln
by Jesse Starita On a picturesque morning last spring, tennis players from throughout Lincoln came together to do something they’d never done: celebrate the first-ever Play Tennis Lincoln Day. Organized by the all-volunteer Lincoln Tennis...
Go Big Red is the thing
by Ken Hambleton New coach. Matt Rhule. “What will win at Nebraska,” he said. New recruits. New transfers. “We made some real strides in recruiting.” New approach. Rhule said, “Figure out what we do well...
Fun for Children in Lincoln
By Mary Friesen These are only some of the activities for children and families in Lincoln. Some were designed and built just for kids and some are fun for almost anyone. So if there are...
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...
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...
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