Holiday break and a bowl game in Las Vegas opened up a spot for Gretna to play for Nebraska women’s basketball versus USC inside Pinnacle Bank Arena. | nebpreps

Every year almost 1,000,000 sandhill cranes—80 percent of all the cranes on the planet—congregate along an 80-mile stretch of the central Platte River in Nebraska, to fatten up on waste grain in the empty cornfields in preparation for the journey to their Arctic and subarctic nesting grounds. This staging is one of the world's great wildlife spectacles, on a par with the epic migrations of the wildebeest and the caribou." - Smithsonian Magazine If you'd like to see this stunning display in 2022,