Podcasts about Nebraska, United States

Nick Bahe had a few days to cool off and had not managed it. Recording Nebraska's Amazing Season, 4 players mistake, & NCAA Tournament Thoughts! for the Nick Bahe Podcast after the Huskers' Sweet 16 loss to Iowa, he goes back to the possession when Nebraska had four players on the floor: "I have never seen that at any level of basketball, let alone the NCAA tournament." It is a small moment, and it shows what these sports podcasts can do. They replay the university's teams play by play, and the stakes they find there often reach past the scoreboard.

Sports feeds' arguments are about money as much as wins: a Memorial Stadium renovation, revenue sharing and the transfer portal. In August 2026, the governor's race offered competing property-tax approaches. Democrat Lynne Walz proposed a universal homestead exemption on the first $100,000 of valuation. Republican Governor Jim Pillen backed annual limits on valuation increases and on local spending growth. In September 2026 the Nebraska Supreme Court kept the Respect Nebraska Voters measure off the November 3 ballot. The majority accepted the objection that it combined too many subjects, and Justice Jonathan Papik dissented.

Across these shows, one question keeps returning: what Nebraskans owe the institutions they share, and what those institutions give back. It comes up over a stadium, a radio service for blind listeners, a probation office and a forage crop after frost.

What Nebraska is

Nebraska is a landlocked state in the Midwestern United States. Lincoln is its capital and Omaha its largest city. A July 2025 estimate put its population at about 2.018 million across 76,818 square miles of land, and agriculture is central to its identity and economy. For the wider country, see the United States page.

Big Red, from the press box to the stands

Huskers Radio Network Podcasts brings coaches and athletes straight to the microphone, with host Kyle Crooks on the AD show. Nebraska Athletics AD Show - Troy Dannen, Kortne Gosha makes the official case for the stadium project. The conversation calls the building "a financial engine, 365 days out of the year" for Lincoln and the state. It also notes that revenue-generating buildings get no state appropriations. The capital-planning segment focuses on practical matters: restrooms, concessions and getting fans inside more easily.

KLIN Husker Hour, hosted by Cole Stukenholtz with Nate Rohr, describes the renovation in its own terms. Big Red Rebuild | Nebraka Baseball | Nebraska Softball | Nebraska Spring Volleyball says the south end zone has needed work for years. On the price, it says $600 million "honestly felt kind of low." In Nebraska Athletics Facilities Upgrades- What do they mean? Who do they help? - April 17, 2026 - 5:00pm, Old School w/ Foreman and Oerman – 93.7 The Ticket KNTK pushes back. One host disputes calling the old stadium perfect, citing parking, traffic and travel.

The basketball spring gave these shows their biggest emotions. In EPISODE 500 | Nebrasketball Roundtable w/ Wilson Moore & Husker Hoops Central, Stukenholtz looks back on hosting the show. The Omaha World-Herald's Wilson Moore says he knew the season was special during one December week: wins over Creighton and Wisconsin, then a road win at Illinois. Two weeks later, Nebrasketball Makes History | Amie Just and Michael Bruntz Live from OKC on the win and matchup with Vandy reports Nebraska's first NCAA tournament win, noting that "It had never happened before Thursday." A guest in Oklahoma City adds that she was chased by a goose on a run.

Carriker Chronicles puts access behind a fan's enthusiasm. Its host is Adam Carriker. In Emmett Johnson | The Truth On Nebraska! | NFL Draft, the running back recalls that his hometown team Minnesota did not offer him a scholarship. Nebraska "took a chance on me" in December of his senior year. In KENT PAVELKA | NEBRASKA vs IOWA | 51 YEARS!, the broadcaster recalls "the best environment best best play-by-play thing that i ever had a chance to broadcast."

Other shows take a different seat. In Nebraska Troy NCAA Tournament Preview!, the Nick Bahe Podcast records from Los Angeles and predicts a red takeover of Oklahoma City. In July, HuskerOnline Podcast's HuskerOnline on ESPN FPI breakdown of NU, Tim Miles returns to Lincoln, WHAT IF Wednesday & more read out ESPN's odds: 19% against Indiana and 8% at Oregon. By October, Carriker's episode titles were recording losses to both. On Corn Nation: for Nebraska Cornhuskers fans, Five Heart Podcast: Nebraska Spring Ball Buzz, Coach Pressers, New Defense Breakdown + RB Room Talk catches the hosts trying to decode the new defensive coordinator's jargon. One host admits, "I haven't heard that term myself."

The long memory

My Antonia reads Willa Cather's novel chapter by chapter. Its plainest passages speak about money and staying put. In 44 - My Antonia - Willa Sibert Cather, Cusick weighs the farm he and Antonia broke: "We pay only twenty dollars an acre then, and I've been offered a hundred." In 38 - My Antonia - Willa Sibert Cather, Lena Lingard turns down marriage: "I prefer to be foolish when I feel like it, and be accountable to nobody." Advertisements come before the reading in some episodes. Because it is a serial, readers new to the novel should start at the beginning.

Suiting Up Varsity: Nebraska High School Sports History retells the final seconds of the 1982 girls state basketball final in Suiting Up- the Karen Moore Shot: 1982 girls sports. It sets 20-0 Kearney, the Bear Kittens, against Lincoln Northeast's high-scoring Karen Moore. Public Lectures and Addresses, a University of Nebraska-Lincoln series, includes the harder A Battle for the Children: Indigenous Child Removal in the U.S. and Australia from 1880-1940. It describes officials withholding treaty rations to force children into boarding schools, and families who hid their children to keep them home. The working land appears on UNL BeefWatch, where Nebraska Extension educator Aaron Berger talks with Ben Beckman in Managing Annual Forages After Frost.

Arts calendars and community rooms

Friday LIVE is Nebraska Public Media's weekly arts and humanities show, hosted by Genevieve Randall. Its best interviews find stories behind the event listings. In Diane Bartels, International Quilt Museum, Ed Love and more..., Bartels tells how a struggling flight instructor in Ord offered Evelyn Sharp free lessons in place of his room-and-board bill. A student, the poet Nathan Ertzner, describes his hometown of Polk as having "more goats in that school than people in my graduating class." Extra: Nebraska Chamber Players and Leah Powell Hosseinabad moves from a Lincoln concert to a painter's exhibit about grief and her husband's Iranian homeland.

RTBS Channel 3 comes from the Radio Talking Book Network in Omaha, which serves blind and visually impaired listeners. In Community Conversations - Karen Moritz (NFBN Update) 04-03-26, Moritz explains why the senior division of the National Federation of the Blind of Nebraska tends to meet on Zoom: its members live all over the state. The in-person meeting comes at that year's convention in Kearney. Restaurant Hoppen's Culinary School Truths with Brian O'Malley praises kitchens run on respect. Nebraska's Morning News reports, in Baby Born on Dodge / Cat Pilots / Judge Defers / Iran Backs Down, on a couple from Fremont whose baby arrived at the roadside at 192nd and Dodge in Omaha.

Courts, probation and second chances

Your Nebraska Judicial Branch takes an institutional view. In Episode 31: Probation Week with Stacy Strohmyer and Danelle Reed, the guests describe Lancaster County's juvenile probation work with the Robert F. Kennedy Foundation. They say the goal is to leave young people with supports that do not depend on probation. Juvenile Justice in Nebraska, in which board members interview people in the field, offers a more personal account. In Episode 26: Josh Arias, Impact Art, Arias recalls anxiety he could not explain to his father and his high school years in Lexington. Art, he says, was always how he expressed what he felt.

Where to start

• For the stadium debate: Huskers Radio Network Podcasts, Nebraska Athletics AD Show - Troy Dannen, Kortne Gosha.
• For reliving March: KLIN Husker Hour, EPISODE 500 | Nebrasketball Roundtable w/ Wilson Moore & Husker Hoops Central.
• For a player's story: Carriker Chronicles, Emmett Johnson | The Truth On Nebraska! | NFL Draft.
• For culture beyond the stadium: Friday LIVE, Diane Bartels, International Quilt Museum, Ed Love and more...
• For justice and repair: Juvenile Justice in Nebraska, Episode 26: Josh Arias, Impact Art. Listen for how it differs from the institutional view in Your Nebraska Judicial Branch.

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