Pinned down with your back to an obstacle and every movable muscle tightly clenched, you hear the splatter of paintballs breaking nearby. "Paintball is very exciting and is one of the fastest growing extreme sports that is team oriented," said Scott Pottinger,...

Shocked. Disappointed. Frozen. NIU forward Marcus Smallwood and guard Todd Peterson layed motionless on the court expressing these feelings after a last-second heave by Smallwood ricocheted hard off the backboard, capping off an emotional 101-100 loss...

After the diploma is in their hands and the cap has been thrown in the air, students may not have to worry about finding a job just because they didn’t have a 4.0 grade point average in college. Jean Callary, assistant director of the Career Planning...

Get ready 1993 gamers! The Atari Jaguar is here! This 64-bit system wipes the floor with Nintendo and Sega's silly little 16-bit systems and boasts graphics that are in full 3-D. There are none of those crisp, clean 2-D sprites; we're talking blocky POLYGONS...

Janet Jackson is an icon. Janet represented everything that a woman could ever want to be: talented and sexy. In May 1993, she released the self-titled album "Janet." This is her fifth album released since the beginning of her career and is very different...

Hail to the king, baby. "Army of Darkness" rules. Meet Ash. Ash recently lost his wife to the "Evil Dead." Ash sucks himself and the Evil Dead into another dimension by reciting passages from the Necronomicon. What? - Don't be confused. "Army of Darkness"...

During the early years of the grunge era, the Smashing Pumpkins released arguably its best album to date, "Siamese Dream." The album produced a number of radio hits, such as the song that made them famous, "Today," as well as "Disarm" and "Rocket." This...

Ah, it's the new year! And with that comes everyone's favorite season - MIDSEASON! Time for the networks to roll out all of the winners that they past on in the fall. Empty timeslots from blockbusters like Fox's "Girls Club" (only two shows, ouch!) and...

Whether growth is advocated or opposed, the DeKalb Growth Summit committee met as a unit Tuesday night at University Plaza to address escalating concerns. "This certainly is a historic moment for this community," DeKalb Mayor Greg Sparrow said. Sparrow...

Cold weather and a hefty security force made for good parties at the Dungeon this weekend. David Hana, owner of the club, was excited about the outcome of the festivities over the weekend. "It was awesome," Hana said. "Everybody was having fun. I was...

Rob Judson and the NIU basketball team welcome Akron at 7:05 p.m. today at the Convocation Center, where NIU will try to extend its conference-long winning streak to six games. Akron has the MAC’s leading scorer, Derrick Tarver, while NIU doesn’t...

Lady luck was on DeKalb’s side Tuesday when Mother Nature wasn’t. The snowfall Tuesday afternoon brought an onslaught of phone calls to area emergency dispatchers, but as of 5 p.m. there were no reports of injuries. Lt. Jim Kayes of the DeKalb Police...