Tom Osborne, former Husker football coach and current UNL athletics director, has been named the 2012 Walter Camp Football Foundation “Distinguished American.” The award is presented annually to an individual who has used their talents to attain great success in business, private life or public service and who may have accomplished that which no other […]

UNL is officially Big Ten bound. After a week of speculation, Big Ten Conference commissioner James E. Delany confirmed that the Big Ten Conference Council of Presidents/Chancellors voted to approve the application from UNL for Big Ten membership. The move was announced at a 5 p.m., June 10 news conference at the Van Brunt Visitors […]

• Chancellor Harvey Perlman and athletic director Tom Osborne have mutually agreed to extend Osborne’s appointment as athletic director indefinitely. Originally the agreement stated that Osborne would serve as athletic director until June 2010. Perlman and Osborne have now agreed that they will review the position on an annual basis. The parties also agreed that […]