The Nebraska Cranes were a United States Basketball League team located in Kearney, Nebraska. The most recent head coach was Brian Walsh. In just the team's second season of existence, the Cranes won the USBL championship by defeating the defending champion Dodge City Legend in the championship game of the USBL Post-Season Festival, doing so on the Legend's home floor.
Unfortunately, their second season turned out to be their last, as they will not return for the 2007 season.
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“What should concern Massachusetts is not the Nebraska Bill, nor the Fugitive Slave Bill, but her own slaveholding and servility. Let the State dissolve her union with the slaveholder.... Let each inhabitant of the State dissolve his union with her, as long as she delays to do her duty.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
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—Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860–1904)