Welcome to Husker Heartbeat - a sampling of links and quick wit to start your morning! Keep checking each morning, Monday-Friday, for new links! We look for the offbeat as well as the straightforward - so don’t just think of us as a typical link farm!

A quick abbreviation key FYI: OWH=Omaha World-Herald, LJS=Lincoln Journal-Star, CN=Corn Nation, BRN=Big Red Network, HI=Huskers Illustrated, BRR=Big Red Report. If we need to add more - we will. Others, like ESPN, are self-explanatory.

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*Suh wants TV screens in the Husker locker room stalls with part of the money he’s giving. Well, OK then.

*The Sweater Jim Tressel was in town Monday night, and man is he smooth after almost 25 years of head coaching. Praised Bo and the Nebraska program and talked Big Ten expansion. He especially liked the letterman’s wall over at Memorial Stadium. Plus a series with Ohio State in 2020?

*ESPN’s David Ubben on NU’s return to prominence.

*The annual BCS meetings begin today.

*Just 16,000 at the Oklahoma spring game, where Landry Jones threw it around the yard.

*Texas A&M heads back to its classic 3-4 alignment.

*Mark Ingram, picking up where he left off.

*Blake Lawrence picks up a major life skills honor from NU.

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