DeKALB | Bowling Green head coach Louis Orr opened Wednesday night's press conference with a prayer. Perhaps it was to give thanks for NIU guard Xavier Silas missing a good look at a game-tying three in overtime. The Huskies lost 73-70 in front of a sparsely-attended...
Track continues assault on record booksAn old saying states that records are meant to be broken. NIU track and field is doing exactly that this year.At Saturday's IWU Invitational held in Marion, Ind., the Huskies clocked five first-place performances,...
NAPERVILLE | Renovations to Ralph McKinzie Field and talk of an indoor-practice facility highlighted the NIU baseball team's leadoff banquet Sunday evening.NIU Athletic Director Jeff Compher and NIU baseball head coach Ed Mathey discussed the state of...
DeKALB | Three days after notching its first win against a MAC East opponent since Feb. 2009, the NIU men’s basketball team fell hard at Buffalo 63-52. The Huskies never led against the Bulls on Saturday afternoon. Buffalo (13-6 overall, 5-2 MAC) followed...
DeKALB | NIU football head coach Dave Doeren couldn’t wait to hit the road and recruit players for his inaugural 2011 class. At the same time, the first-year head coach is pleased for the process to be over. “I’m equally excited to have it over...
Former NIU football coach Joe Novak's final season as head coach in 2007 may have been one of his more unsuccessful years, posting a 2-10 record. But it's who Novak recruited that year that ended up having a larger impact on a football program thriving...
Nearly two months after being named the new head coach of NIU football, Dave Doeren has completed his coaching staff, naming Richard McNutt the Huskies' cornerbacks coach. McNutt has spent time as a coach at the NFL level with the Cleveland Browns, coaching...
Four years ago, Chad Spann walked onto the NIU football team and earned a scholarship. As a departing senior, he has his sights set a little higher in 2011. After helping the Huskies cap a 11-3 season with a victory in the uDrove Humanitarian Bowl, Spann...
Former NFL running back Herschel Walker wants to be the George Foreman of football. No, he doesn't want to endorse his own line of super-efficient grills. Instead, he wants to make a geriatric comeback to the gridiron. In fact, Walker even gave a short...
When associate head coach Ryan Ludwig first came to NIU to assist head coach Dave Grant's rising wrestling team, he felt that the job was a good fit for him. Six years later, Ludwig has become a key part of NIU wrestling and its reform to become a nationally...
Adam Kiel is a mountain of a man. But even the 6'5", 308-pound NIU offensive lineman could not do all of the pushing required in helping the area of New Orleans still recovering from Hurricane Katrina more than five years ago. The redshirt reserve offensive...
College baseball needs Tony Gwynn. The former San Diego Padre and current head coach of the San Diego State baseball team announced earlier this month that he is doing well after a series of cancer treatments for a malignant tumor in his parotid gland....
