No more will NIU football coach Joe Novak have to use the Convocation Center as the prime recruiting venue. No more will NIU athletes have to weight train in Huskie Stadium’s junior college-type weight room. And no more will NIU be at the butt-end of...

After the passage of Title IX 33 years ago, 59 percent of NIU athletes are male and 41 percent are female, official records show. "We take [gender equity] very seriously, and we very much believe in gender equity," Athletics Director Jim Phillips said....

INDIANAPOLIS - NIU has six of the more than 400 sports teams at the nation’s Division I level that could lose scholarships next year under the NCAA’s new academic standards, according to a report released Monday. Most of the scholarship losses, which...

SAN JOSE, Calif. - An unfamiliar name was one of two NIU football players to take home MVP honors at the Dec. 30 Silicon Valley Football Classic. Thanks to a key blocked punt and a couple big tackles on kickoffs, sophomore strong safety Dustin Utschig...

SAN JOSE - While most were sleeping or shopping the day after Christmas, the NIU football team was ready to go. After leaving Huskie Stadium at 8 a.m., the Huskies departed on a four-day trip that saw bridges, jails, schools, a lot of rain, and culminated...

Terrance Smith’s trip to NIU’s bowl game was a long time coming. A 64-year-old Big Rock native, Smith is a long time NIU fan who has bought football season tickets since 1996. Why would he buy season tickets to a team who was beginning a 23-game losing...

For three roommates and self-proclaimed avid Huskies football fans, a Bowl game has been a long time coming. To Jason Braddock, Adam Smith and Zach Alesandrini, the cost of a trip to San Jose, Calif., to see NIU play in the Silicon Valley Football Classic...

Usually, stories of having to walk miles to school are regarded as exaggerated, dusty tales from grandparents. But the memory of NIU football’s equipment manager, Dick Townsend, still serves him just fine as he remembers his daily journey to Rockford...

The deciding Game 5 of the NIU Fall World Series was dominated by pitcher Nick Hall in a 2-1 NIU Cardinal victory over NIU Black in 10 innings Thursday afternoon. The win gave the Cardinals a 3-2 victory in the five-game series. Hall pitched all 10 innings,...

Runners for NIU women’s cross country didn’t expect to be midseason without a coach. But after former cross country and track and field coach Shantel Twiggs took a head track position at the University of Nevada-Reno in mid-September, they decided...

The first NIU men’s basketball “Midnight Madness” will take place at 11:45 p.m. on Oct. 15 at the Convocation Center’s Victor E. Court. In this free event, students will be able to meet the Huskies players, win prizes and see a team scrimmage....

The NIU cross country record books have been rewritten once again. Alicja Czajka ran a time of 18:33 in the five-kilometer course for the second week in a row Saturday at the Central Collegiate Championships in Toledo, Ohio. Both times put her in the...