We are three games into the 2024 NFL season. Sam Darnold looks like an MVP candidate, Andy Dalton has given the Carolina Panthers life and Derek Carr and Baker Mayfield are tied for 3rd in passing touchdowns.  Needless to say, it’s been a weird...

DeKALB – NIU head gymnastics coach Sam Morreale has retired after 13 years at the helm of the program and 22 years on the team’s staff, NIU Vice President and Director of Athletics and Recreation Sean Frazier announced in an NIU Athletics news release...

DeKALB – When NIU football walked off Brigham Field at Huskie Stadium after being knocked off its No. 23 pedestal by the University at Buffalo, it left a bitter taste within the program. After all, the 23-20 overtime loss was only the third time NIU...

DeKALB – NIU football resumes non-conference play on Saturday as the Huskies travel to Raleigh, North Carolina, to face North Carolina State University. Senior Sports Reporter Skyler Kisellus, Photo Editor Tim Dodge and Senior Photojournalist Totus...

DeKALB – Graduate student goalkeeper Ary Purifoy earned the first Huskie of the Week Award of her career after recording her fourth shutout of the season on Sunday.  Purifoy is now tied for third in the MAC in shutouts.  After tying 1-1 with...

DeKALB – In the aftermath of a 23-20 loss to the University at Buffalo, NIU head football coach Thomas Hammock, redshirt junior quarterback Ethan Hampton and junior defensive end Nevaeh Sanders sat down behind a table inside a classroom in the Yordon...

DeKALB – It’s been almost two weeks since NIU shocked the college football world with its upset of then-No. 5 University of Notre Dame. Now, the Huskies have put that historic upset in South Bend, Indiana, in the rear-view mirror as they shift...

NIU football remains one of the top programs in the country after getting some help from a pair of Power Four schools during its well-deserved bye week in Week 3 to climb to No. 23 in The Associated Press Top 25 college football poll. The Huskies will...

NIU women’s soccer junior forward Kelsi McLaughlin earned this week’s Huskie of the Week award for the first time in her collegiate career.  McLaughlin led NIU in scoring this week, accounting for two out of the three goals the Huskies scored.  In...

DeKALB – After making The Associated Press Top 25 for the first time in over a decade last week, NIU football climbed two spots in the rankings in the latest poll released Sunday. NIU, who spent the past week on a bye, are now ranked No. 23 in AP...

NIU volleyball (2-6) claimed its second win of the season Saturday over the Stony Brook University Seawolves (7-2) in four sets.  COMPLETE PERFORMANCE The Huskies pitched their best performance of the season thus far against Stony Brook, a team...

NIU women’s soccer (5-1-1) narrowly defeated the Illinois State University Redbirds (2-4-1) by a score of 1-0, winning a match against the Redbirds for the first time since 1998.  NIU women’s soccer head coach Michael O’Neill reflected on the...