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Ken Hambleton: After Orange Bowls, Tokyo and many golf swings, a farewell

Of note: Ken Hambleton, who has written thousands and thousands of stories for the Lincoln Journal Star, is retiring after 44 years at the paper. His final day is Monday. Ken's wife and prep sports writer Ryly Jane is retiring at the end of March.

It was midnight and the 1994 Orange Bowl had given us a wild finish between Nebraska and Florida State.

I had four different stories ready — Nebraska wins and ends its drought against Florida teams, FSU wins and Tom Osborne suffers a seventh consecutive bowl loss, Florida State rallies, and Nebraska rallies, elephants stampede and halt the game.