The Dog Days of Summer are here, so what better way to start lollygagging through them than to spend some quality time with the Durham Bulls. What’s that make us, Larry?!?! Lollygaggers.

Time to face it. The NBA and NHL championships just ended. College and pro football are a couple months from starting and the pennant races really won’t kick into overdrive until August. (Okay, we do have the Olympics coming up, but one can only count on those every four years. As if.

So that gives us baseball and Bull Durham is just perfect for that. We get dropped in on the early stages of another dreary season which finds the Durham Bulls off to an 8-16 start (“8 and 16. How’d we ever win 8?”)

For everyone’s favorite well-read cougar, Annie Savoy, this is the best time of the year and once Ebby Calvin “Nuke” Laloosh and Crash Davis show up, it gets a whole lot better.

Join us as we look back at Bull Durham which starred Kevin Costner, Susan Sarandon and Tim Robbins - each of whom had star turn or two prior to this, but launched to stardom after.

And remember - this is a simple game. You throw the ball. You hit the ball. You catch the ball.

This week on Corn Nation Overreaction Revisited, Greg and Hoss discuss the 2023 Battle for NU: Nebraska vs Northwestern.

Was it the most beautiful win of the season? No. But Hoss indicates it may be the most important. We tied it into the Illinois game from the previous week and how perhaps the goal line stand at the beginning of that game played an integral part in the Huskers not being a 2- or 3-win team.

Nebraska overcame an opening-drive interception and did just enough to keep the wolves (or Wildcats) at bay.

Next week...Purdue.

This week we’re continuing to look at future Huskers. Or...maybe future Huskers?

TJ Lateef recently answered “I won’t speak on that” in an interview when asked if his recruiting was shut down after committing to Nebraska. So obviously the sky is falling.

But hey, maybe we’re landing 5-star transfer kicker John Hohl. Will he be a back up to Tristan Alvano?

For 7 weeks Nebraska lists “Elite” players, so who makes the Week 3 List? And running back Mekhi Nelson re-classified his play year from 2025 to 2024, allowing him to be on campus one year sooner.