A fall without Husker football could bring dire economic consequences
(World News USA)

LINCOLN — The Big Ten has decided not to play football this fall. For Nebraska and the city of Lincoln, that choice comes at a high cost. The prospect of the Huskers not competing at all in 2020 brings with it wide-ranging financial implications affecting — and potentially destroying — bottom lines both inside and outside the university. Restaurants, bars, hotels, retailers and athletic department budgets will all absorb major blows associated with losing the originally scheduled seven home games and the corresponding business of more than 630,000 combined people who would have attended those contests at Memorial Stadium. A football absence will...