The winning is continuing for the NIU men's rugby team. After going 6-0 in the fall, the Huskies opened up spring with a 48-12 win at Illinois State. "I think we're off to a good start," said Al Collins, NIU men's rugby president . "This was definitely...

Dr. Jon Steinbrecher has only been MAC commissioner for two days. Yesterday in just his second day on the job, Steinbrecher had his first teleconference. Steinbrecher, who previously served as commissioner of the Ohio Valley Conference, answered questions...

Men's and women's soccer teams play on the same pitch, tennis plays on the same court and basketball on the same slab of hardwood. Call me crazy, but if there were a professional women's football league - here's looking to you, Vince McMahon -I'm pretty...

What was supposed to be a five-game weekend in Alabama for the NIU softball team turned out to be a two-game trip mauled by inclement weather. NIU's first game of the Eighth Annual Magic City Classic against Samford was postponed due to rain and started...

Most current NIU students weren't even born when the decision happened. What am I talking about? One of the worst decisions in NIU athletics history. In 1975, NIU joined the Mid-American Conference, mainly thanks to three different people­­ â€"...

Kent State stuck it to the NIU gymnastic's team Sunday afternoon, proving its reign in the MAC. While the Huskies (4-2 overall, 3-2 MAC) celebrated ‘Stick it Pink,' an effort to increase breast cancer awareness, the Golden Flashes came out victorious...

In Major League Baseball, pitchers and catchers report to spring training in the middle of February. In college baseball, it's when teams start their regular season schedule. NIU barely got to practice outside this season, having a little bit of time...

There should be a disclaimer before I get into this: I am a lifelong Packers fan, and I love Brett Favre as much as anyone has loved any athlete â€" ever. Maybe even more than his wife, Deanna. That's why it should really resonate when I say this:...

NIU football wasn't the only team to announce its 2009 recruiting class Wednesday afternoon. Before NIU head football coach Jerry Kill took the podium, NIU men's soccer head coach Steve Simmons sat inside the McCareins Auditorium at the Yordon Center...

Head football coach Jerry Kill has been out on the road recruiting the last few weeks, helping to put the finishing touches on NIU's 2009 recruiting class. All the hard work led up to National Signing Day on Wednesday, when Kill announced that 24 players...

Over the weekend 4,727 people packed the Convocation Center for a basketball game. It was a high school game. The annual DeKalb-Sycamore game put more people in the seats than both weekend NIU basketball games combined, which totaled 4,359 people. Sports...

I got to see two kids get the boot from a walk-on informational meeting in the McCareins Auditorium at the Yordon Center Jan. 28. Football Operations Director Adam Clark asked the room of about 30 eager students if anyone did not play high school football....