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LINCOLN, Neb. -- For all the championships and other high points in Nebraskas proud football history, theres one thing the Cornhuskers ardent fan base desires most of all.They want their team to be relevant.Nebraskas 35-32 win over Oregon on Saturday has put the Huskers back in the national spotlight with a 3-0 record. Theyre in The Associated Press poll, at No. 20, for the first time since December 2014.Theyve won six of their last seven since a 3-6 start in Mike Rileys first season, and they almost certainly will be favored in each of their next four games before visiting Wisconsin on Oct. 29.Riley, whose team plays at Northwestern this week, said the Oregon win was only a starting point.Well have to keep putting an exclamation point on it week after week to make it real, he said.Riley is in charge of one of the most tradition-rich programs. Only five schools have appeared in the AP poll more times since it started in 1936, and the Huskers have won or shared five national titles. The most recent of those came under Tom Osborne in 1997, and Nebraska hasnt won a conference title since Frank Solich brought one home in 1999.So high are the expectations that Bo Pelini, who never won fewer than nine games over his seven seasons, was fired. This is the same school where College Football Hall of Fame coach Bob Devaney once said in 1968, I know the fans are with me, win or tie.Devaney may have been exaggerating a bit. Nebraska fans are known for being able to tolerate some losses as long as the Huskers show up and play with effort. That didnt happen on the biggest stages in recent years.Rileys lack of sustained success at Oregon State made him a surprise hire, and his first season was full of bad luck. The Huskers lost their 2015 opener to BYU on a Hail Mary and four other games by three points or less.We had a lot of close games, and it came down to little details, receiver Jordan Westerkamp said. We said we werent going to be beaten like that anymore. Just the second year with this new staff, we have grown so much closer with them and have been able to take this playbook in so much more.The Huskers ascent started last year after an embarrassing 55-45 loss at Purdue. The following week they knocked off a Michigan State team that made the College Football Playoff to start a stretch of wins in three of their last four games.Nebraska opened this season with wins over Fresno State and Wyoming and then celebrated the 350th consecutive Memorial Stadium sellout with the win over an Oregon team that leads the Pac-12 in wins since 1997 and has played in two of the last six national championship games.I thought it was a really good win for this team as far as confidence and momentum, Riley said. I think a lot of the teams identity will be sort of defined by how we respond, whether its responding to a loss or responding to a win. As the games go on, if you continue to win they get bigger and tougher. This game will be really, really good for our team.One of the most obvious differences between this year and last has been the play of Tommy Armstrong Jr.The fourth-year starter has thrown for seven touchdowns against one interception. Last season he was picked off four times through three games and was on his way to throwing 16 interceptions, second-most among Power Five quarterbacks.Armstrong also has been given more freedom as a runner, and scored the game-winning touchdown against Oregon on a 34-yard quarterback draw.Its a statement game for our season, Armstrong said. Thats our goal, to be 3-0 going into conference play. As far as this game, its one of the biggest games Ive played in. In front of these fans, they did a great job of supporting us throughout the whole game.---Online:AP college football website: http://collegefootball.ap.org Fake Vans 2020 . According to a report from the Winnipeg Free Press, the Bombers will name Acting GM Kyle Walters to the post full time. 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The 29-year-old Baines has established himself as one of the top attacking full backs in the country and was the subject of two bids from United during the last off-season. Everton manager Roberto Martinez says that keeping Baines at the club is a "massive boost and exciting for the future" because he brings "maturity and football knowledge in a very specialized position on the pitch" and an "infectious and positive influence to the rest of the squad. NEW YORK -- Sometimes experience as an Olympian can give an announcer special insight -- even the most painful kind.NBCs Kevin Barnett knew what members of the U.S. womens volleyball were feeling Saturday when they had to rebound from a painful loss in the semifinals to play in a bronze medal match two days later. Theres no time to wallow in self-pity. You need to recover energy and focus.Barnett admitted he had a hard time doing that in 2004 as a member of the U.S. mens volleyball team competing in Athens. His team returned home on a two-match losing streak with a fourth-place finish.The American women rallied for coach Karch Kiraly to beat the Netherlands and secure a medal.Karch Kiraly (was) saying, `We love tough, Barnett said. No tougher situation than to lose what was your dream of Olympic gold and to come back and rally for a bronze.BOXING: Similarly, theres no time to waste in three-round Olympic boxing matches, and that occasionally left NBCs B.J. Flores sounding breathless in his call of the gold medal bantamweight fight between Cuban Robeisy Ramirez and American Shakur Stevenson. At first, Flores seemed to be working with more urgency than Stevenson, and he encouraged the 19-year-old American to not to fight defensively because hed lose the chance to score points and become the first male boxer from the United States to win gold since 2004. The fight, won by Ramirez on a split decision, was so close that Flores wisely laid out the facts and resisted a prediction on how the judges would rule.PERFECTION: The U.S. womens basketball team had a game on their hands -- for a quarter. Then they methodically routed Spain for a gold medal, continuing a 49-game winning streak that began with a bronze medal victory in 1992. That left NBCs Marc Zumoff and Ann Meyers Drysdale with time to kill, which theyre accustomed to doing in U.S. games. Itll be interesting to see if they can score 100 points, Drysdale mused with about four minutes to go. A Brianna Steewart three-pointer did the trick to make the final 101-72.dddddddddddd.TRIATHLON: Analyst Julie Swail was adroit with her insights on the womens triathlon, spotting the gamesmanship between American Gwen Jorgensen and Nicola Spirig of Switzerland as they ran together, neither wanting the more taxing task of running in front. Swait correctly predicted when Jorgensen would make a move to put the race out of reach. Colleague Al Trautwig wondered what would happen with two British racers, running side by side in third and fourth place, when the bronze medal was on the line. Theyre teammates, theyre best friends, theyre roommates, Swail said. But when it comes down to the run, its everyone for themselves. Thats exactly what happened.QUOTE: The absolute emotional high point of these Olympic games for Brazil. -NBCs Bob Costas describing the host countrys mens soccer team winning the gold medal in a shootout over Germany.STUNNED INTERVIEW: American runner Paul Chelimo seemed to be expecting a congratulatory interview with NBC Lewis Johnson about winning the silver medal in the 5,000 meter run, and he looked stunned when Johnson informed him hed been disqualified. He watched tape where he bumped into another runner, but Chelimo said it was because his effort to move had been blocked. Chelimo was ultimately reinstated.CLOSING NIGHT: NBC announced that Mike Tirico, Mary Carillo and Ryan Seacrest will host the Rio de Janeiro closing ceremony on Sunday night. Like the opening ceremony, it will be shown on tape delay.RATINGS: NBCs Friday night coverage, featuring dueling relays races between American and Jamaican runners, reached 20 million viewers, the Nielsen company said. With streaming and cable coverage added in, the network reached 21.1 million in the time slot. Viewership for the corresponding night in London 2012 was 22.5 million. ' ' '