The high school football season, cross country and volleyball seasons are all officially getting underway this week. On Friday night we will have a double header for you of high school football. Eustis Farnam travels to Elwood kickoff is set for 7pm on 93.1 KRVN FM. Russ Holen and David Bailey will have the call of that game. On AM 880 KRVN Lexington is on the road at GINW. John Soflin will join me on that broadcast.  Kickoff is set for 7pm. Don't forget at 6:05 on the River we will bring you the Countryman Associates High school football preview show. After the game around 10:40 we will bring you the KRVN scoreboard show with Dave Schroeder on KRVN AM and FM.

Here at KRVN we are excited about the upcoming fall sports season. As we have in the past we will post any results that we receive from area coaches. We also have a big schedule planed for high school football broadcasts. It starts on August 27th on 93.1 KRVN FM with Cozad at Ogallala and on AM 880 Lexington at Gering. Our complete schedule can be found on krvn.com.

It seems odd to me that this will be the last time more than likely that I will travel to Texas to cover the Big 12 media days. I have been covering this event for KRVN since the late 1990's. Next year with NU joining the Big Ten I will be headed in east in late July. A lot has happened in this time regarding the Huskers. In those days Frank Solich was calling the shots and folks wanted to know if he could keep the Big Red machine going. Eric Crouch was the man back then running the option for NU and of course that  led to a Heisman Trophy for Crouch. For Solich the ending wasn't so good when he was fired by athletic director Steve Pederson. Then came our good buddy Bill Callahan who always seemed like coaching college football was a step down for him. Of course we all saw how that one ended. Then came Bo Pelini, with his straight ahead approach to football and the media. In two years, he has done a nice job getting Nebraska back on track it would seem. This year NU is the favorite to win the Big 12 north. It could be a great fall for the Huskers if things fall into place. I have no idea what the reception will be like for NU this week or this season. Many of the media in the remaining Big 12 region just can't understand why NU would leave and head east. In the end it won't matter, the results will be decided on the field and we will see in December if Nebraska walks away with the Big 12 football title on it's way out the front door.

Last week I got a call completely out of the blue from Mark Pinski who writes a weekly column for a national sports broadcasters website that I like to read. He lives in Chicago.  I was blown away that he would give me a call. He was looking to do a story about  a broadcaster in the middle of america. Click here for the story.

Seems hard to believe the summer is more than half over. Before long school will be starting and we will be back at it with football broadcasts on KRVN AM & FM.