Three games into his junior year of basketball, Lincoln Christian senior Nick Weber tore the ACL in his left knee and had reconstructive surgery. He missed the basketball and track seasons but joine
Posted: Sunday, May 18, 2008 7:00 pm
Lincoln Christian golfer Nick Weber made it to the Class C State High School Boys Golf Tournament in Kearney.
Sure, hundreds of kids qualify for the state tournament, but Weber is special.
Three games into his junior year of basketball, the Crusader senior tore the ACL in his left knee and had reconstructive surgery. He missed the basketball and track seasons but joined Christian’s first golf team.
Last fall, four days before the basketball season opener, he tore a ligament in the same leg. He had played tennis last fall, trying to build his strength for the basketball season after he suffered a bone bruise and a linear fracture of his leg in church camp.
“I’ve learned to get the ice on my knee after a long day when my knee really swells up,” Weber said. “I open my stance a little more and I’m getting most of my power back.”
Weber will attend Creighton next year.
“Maybe, if I can keep from getting another injury, I’ll go out for golf,” he said.
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Kevin Modesti of the Los Angeles Daily News noted that a recent study on the economic impact of sports in Southern California missed some items in its $5 billion impact statement.
When somebody does an economic study of a new arena in Lincoln or a new baseball park in Omaha, they should include the following:
* $245,000 for auto-body shops for repairs made by fender benders in the new parking lots.
* $22,000 to remove any pictures or words devoted to Steve Pederson and Bill Callahan in promotional material provided by the University of Nebraska.
* $22 extra income for Lincoln and Omaha from money spent by sports fans to ride city buses to the new arena and new baseball park.
* $3.5 million for models of the new structures, promotional materials about how the new structures will provide a great economic impact to Lincoln and Omaha.
* $200 billion from parking tickets handed out by meter maids near the new arena.
* $0.09 actual income after deducting costs for concerts that will start coming to Lincoln.
* $5,750 for sales of DVDs of the implosion of Pershing Center.
* $0.05 average amount spent on new shoes by folks who park at Haymarket Park and walk over the $3 million bridge to the new arena, or who park in Council Bluffs, Iowa, and walk over the $23 million bridge to the new ballpark in downtown Omaha.
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When the NCAA approved bowls No. 34 and No. 35 recently, why did it turn down a bowl for Salt Lake City?
Now with 35 bowls — adding the Congressional Bowl, somebody versus Navy in Washington, D.C., in December, and the St. Petersburg Bowl (an indoor game in Florida in December) — it’s going to be hard to stay home after the regular season. Last year, 71 Division I teams were bowl-eligible. With the new bowls, 70 teams will get invitations to bowl games. Maybe Salt Lake City could get the winners of the Navy bowl and the St. Pete bowl.
The Lincoln Saltdogs have a new introduction before the national anthem. A member of the National Guard appears on the video board and says, “Please remove your hats and turn off your cell phones, remind those around you to do the same, and join in the singing of the national anthem.”
The message should include, “And join in half-singing, half-mumbling the words of the national anthem since you’re not sure what a rampart is and why you’d watch over it. And forget about the gleaming twilights.”
Thinking about that perfect Father’s Day gift? The Suunto G6 watch ($399) measures the speed, tempo and rhythm of your golf swing. Of course, for $399 you can get plenty of lessons from the pros and understand why you can’t get the ball in the air or out of the woods.
Reach Ken Hambleton at 473-7313 or khambleton@journalstar.com.