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Omaha getting Lingerie Football League team

April 20, 2012 By

The Lingerie Football League is coming to Omaha and will play in the new $32 million Ralston Sports and Event Center, joining other teams such as the Omaha Lancers hockey team, the Omaha Beef indoor football team and the University of Nebraska at Omaha men’s basketball team as tenants.  The league currently has 12 teams, made up of women who play 7 on 7 football in sports bras, panties, mini shoulder pads and hockey-style helmets.

The new Ralston franchise, doesn’t have a name yet, but you can email the league with your suggestions at LFLinOmaha@LFLUS.com.

 The Lingerie Football League started as pay-per-view programming during the Super Bowl halftime show in 2004, and eventually became a full league in 2009. The league announced the LFL would bypass the 2012 season and delay games until next year to accommodate a spring and summer schedule.

 

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Omaha announces sellout for NCAA tournament

February 28, 2012 By

Tickets for the 2012 NCAA Men’s Basketball Division I Championship Second/Third Rounds to be held at CenturyLink Center Omaha on March 16 & 18 are sold out, tournament manager Kevin Sarver announced today.  The event will feature eight teams and six games in two days of competition.

Four second-round games will be played on Friday, March 16 with the winners advancing to the third-round for games on Sunday, March 18. The third-round winners will advance to Boston, Phoenix, Atlanta or St. Louis for NCAA Regional play the following week. NCAA Tournament pairings will be announced on CBS on March 11th.

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Omaha ballpark will host outdoor hockey in Feb. 2013

February 14, 2012 By

The city of Omaha and TD Ameritrade Ballpark will host two outdoor hockey games next February. The 24,000 seat stadium that is home to the college world series will be converted into an outdoor rink for the Omaha Lancers and the Lincoln Stars.

Both teams play in the USHL, which is the top junior hockey league in the country that and features some of the top 16 to 20 year old amateur players in the world. The next day, the rink will be used for a Division I college game between Nebraska-Omaha and North Dakota.

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SWAT teams cover Omaha, seeking 55 on gun charges

August 9, 2011 By

A concerted show of force descended on Omaha this morning, arresting dozens, confiscating guns and illegal drugs.

Omaha SWAT teams worked with federal ATF teams, attempting to serve warrants on 55 people. AFT Special Agent Trista Frederick says a seven-month undercover operation led to the raids this morning. Police arrested a “significant number” of suspects during the raids. Police confiscated 70 firearms and around $50,000 worth of illegal drugs.

“The target was illegal firearms or illegal possession of firearms and illegal drugs,” Frederick says.

Frederick says the raids were designed to send a message.

“It is the result of a newly formed task force that is targeting violent crime in the Omaha area,” according to Frederick.

Some of those arrested face federal charges. They could appear in US District Court in Omaha has early as this week. Others face state charges in Douglas County. Federal authorities say many of those sought face the possibility of mandatory sentences of three to 10 years in prison.

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President Bush heading back to CWS

June 15, 2011 By

Nebraska Republican Party chairman Mark Fahleson told the Omaha World-Herald that former President George W. Bush is expected to throw the ceremonial first pitch at Saturday afternoon’s game between Vanderbilt and North Carolina at the start of the College World Series at T.D. Ameritrade Park.

The former President threw out the first pitch of the 2001 series. Bush’s father, former President George H.W. Bush, played in the 1947 and 1948 series for Yale.

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