Jordan Less earns second win at Titleist Footjoy Invitational
Wes Sanderson, Reporter
October 20, 2020
DeKALB — The men's golf team competed in the Titleist Footjoy Invitational presented by Glass Solutions Inc. from Oct. 16 to Oct. 18. The three-round stroke play tournament was the penultimate event in the Heide Wealth Management Series hosted by NIU. Graduate student Jordan Less secured his second win...
NIU women’s basketball unites against racism
Kyle Mathas, Reporter
October 20, 2020
DeKALB — The NIU women’s basketball team sent out a statement Sept. 21 advocating for unity and justice after the racist incident at the Center for Black Studies. NIU was hit with a racist incident Sept. 17 at the Center for Black Studies, where a racist expression was spray painted on the buildin...
NIU came close to not having a football season
Wes Sanderson, Reporter
October 19, 2020
DeKALB — College homecomings are a spectacle for communities across the country. Every fall, parents take their families to their alma maters and walk the same streets they did, eating at the same haunts they attended Friday nights. Homecoming week just does that for a community, but this year homecom...
Down the Lines: NFL Week 6, Georgia vs Alabama predictions
October 17, 2020
Saturday felt like I was trapped in the Bill Murray movie “Groundhog Day,” watching college game after college game have the over-under line destroyed by one thing: the lack of defense across the NCAA. I expected the Oklahoma-Texas game to have no defense, but as I watched highlights from the morning ...
NFL Week 5 recap: The pressure of being America’s quarterback
James Krause, Senior Reporter
October 15, 2020
It’s hard to believe the emotions that poured out of Dallas Cowboys quarterback Dak Prescott while being carted off the field Sunday were purely from the pain, though he wouldn’t be blamed if it was. Prescott suffered a compound fracture and separated his ankle on a tackle in the third quarter of t...
MAC volleyball, men’s and women’s soccer to be played in spring
Jarrett Huff, Sports Editor
October 12, 2020
DeKALB — The Mid-American Conference announced Monday in a news release that four fall sports will be played starting in the 2021 Spring semester. The four sports, volleyball, field hockey, men’s and women’s soccer, join MAC football, which starts Nov. 4, as the only MAC sports with a definit...
Jordan Less wins ‘ACP CreativIT Shootout’
Wes Sanderson, Reporter
October 10, 2020
DeKALB — Graduate student Jordan Less secured the “ACP CreativIT Shootout '' title Friday, posting a total score of 4-under par, two shots clear of junior Tommy Dunsire. NIU men’s and women’s golf teams competed in the “ACP CreativIT Shootout” at Rich Harvest Farms, the Huskies’ hom...
NFL Week 4 recap: The league has made its bed
James Krause, Columnist
October 9, 2020
I finished my column for Week 3 of the NFL last Wednesday and thought, “It can’t get any crazier than that.” A week later, hindsight says it actually might be just the beginning. After New England Patriots quarterback Cam Newton tested positive for COVID-19 Saturday, the Patriots-Chiefs game w...
Down the Lines: NFL Week 5, NCAA football predictions
Wes Sanderson, Columnist
October 8, 2020
For college football junkies, last week solidified the opinion that the Big 12 is eliminated from the College Football Playoff. Oklahoma lost for a second straight week to an unranked opponent and Texas, who was considered to be the “second best” team in the conference according to ESPN FPI, lost to ...
2020 Mid-American Conference, NIU football schedule released
James Krause, Senior Reporter
October 7, 2020
DeKALB — The Mid-American Conference and NIU announced their modified six-game schedule for the 2020 football season, with the Huskies announcing their plans for how they will fill the stands. The Huskies open their season on Nov. 4 at Huskie Stadium against the University at Buffalo Bulls. The cont...
Tommy Dunsire takes home Sherman Plastics championship in Michigan
Wes Sanderson, Reporter
October 5, 2020
DeKALB — Junior Tommy Dunsire played fellow teammates in match-play Saturday and Sunday to earn the Sherman Plastics championship. Huskies men’s golf competed in the Sherman Plastics Kingsley Open Saturday and Sunday in Kingsley, Michigan. This was the second event of the Heide Wealth Management Series, an intra-squad...
Down the Lines: NFL Week 4, college football predictions
Wes Sanderson, Columnist
October 1, 2020
With almost a month of the NFL season complete, teams are starting to separate themselves from the pack and bolster their stocks on the road to Super Bowl LV in Tampa Bay in February. Teams such as the Green Bay Packers, who look to be humming on offense and scoring in bunches, or defending Super Bo...
DeKALB — The men's golf team competed in the Titleist Footjoy Invitational presented by Glass Solutions Inc. from Oct. 16 to Oct. 18. The three-round...