Well, I'm working on a phpNuke integration with VB now. I'm currently rewriting the stories module so that it will post articles into the designated forum. Basically, you'd have a forum or set of forums that form a topic, like football, baseball, etc grouped into a sports topic.
The sports topic will have its own unique portal, ie Nuke will be modified from a single to a multi-portal. The portal will display all sports articles. the articles link back to the forum where the discussion on the article takes place.
You can queue articles for future submission. Even though they're in the database, they'll become active on the release date, at which time they'll appear on the portal and the thread will be created in the proper forum.
You will be able to create articles with no discussion - such as website announcements. They'll appear on the particular portal, but the thread that is created will be immediately closed.
Also you can set an article kill date. On that date, it becomes an inactive article and the tread is closed. It can still be viewed in the article archives, but it will not appear on the portal.
At present, the work is 70% done. I am planning on releasing this as VB3Nuke during the first week of May.
You can also read more about it here:
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=63394