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...head football coach at the University of Nebraska, Tom Osborne had an unusually personal view of the state of American youth. "I'd travel 30,000, 40,000, 50,000 miles a year all over the U.S. to find recruits," recalls Osborne, 61. "On average I visited 70 to 80 high schools and 50 to 60 homes each year. And what I saw were young people who were more and more troubled, carrying more and more emotional baggage; I even saw this increasingly with the young people joining the team...
...Crimson faces a formidable opponent tonight in Colgate. Freshman forward Pat Campolieta led the Red Raiders (3-5, 0-0 Patriot League) to second place in the Ameritas Classic in Lincoln, Nebraska, this past weekend and was named to his second All-Tournament team in as many weeks. He was also named the Patriot League's Rookie of the week for the second consecutive week after averaging 15.0 points and 4.7 rebounds per game last week...
...dark as it seems now, all hope is not lost.The Crimson will fly out to Omaha in two weeks fora pair of non-divisional games against theUniversity of Nebraska-Omaha. A couple of wins inthe cornfields would at least allow for a measureof holiday cheer...
...presenting this archive of unused material, Springsteen begs the listener to question the choices made in assembling previous albums. It is difficult to say why "A Good Man is Hard to Find," the second disk's meditative song about the Vietnam War dead, did not make the cut for Nebraska, which included not only several forgettable songs--"Highway Patrolman," "Used Cars"--but also some of Springsteen's most idiotic whooping ("State Trooper"). In general, though, it seems that Springsteen's editorial taste has been very good: the songs on the second disk (1980-83) often feel as if they might...
...song that will attract the most attention in the compilation is the acoustic version of "Born in the U.S.A.," recorded originally for Nebraska, but not included on the final tracklist for that album. Perhaps Springsteen means through its inclusion to indicate that he has always been writing Joad-like protest music, even in composing his most famous arena rocker: but the acoustic version of "Born in the U.S.A." is fierce, bitter and passionate: There is anger in Springsteen's voice and in his inflections anger absent from Joad, where is it replaced by a still, quiet sadness...