Nebraska Huskers t-shirts featuring new cartoon mascot Herbie Husker, left, and old cartoon mascot, right, are displayed at the Husker Hounds store in Omaha, Neb., Saturday, Jan. 29, 2022.

From a failed attempt at keeping a live eagle in the 1910s, to a slack-jawed cartoon from The Walt Disney Studios, to an arduous and ultimately doomed open contest to find a mascot in the '80s ...

The cartoonist who created Pepe the Frog has killed off the character in a rebuke to far-right extremists who transformed a benevolent internet meme into a racist, anti-Semitic symbol. Pepe the ...