If you look at the 12-game college football season in terms of quarters, the first three have been brutal for the NIU football team. Each game led to a new injury and most of the talk was focused on which players wouldn't play rather than on who would....

Q&A with volleyball coach Ray Gooden NS: How long have you been coaching? RG: I've been coaching college volleyball since 1994. NS: What sparked your interest in volleyball? RG: It has always been a sport that I love. I started playing volleyball...

After beating Maryland, Alabama and Iowa State in the 2003 season, NIU solidified itself as a football school. After that, moral victories became a thing of the past. Still, with an injury-depleted roster, one can't help but claim Saturday's 35-24 road...

When you offered my old baseball coach an opinion, you got a customary response. "Nokes," he would say. "You know what opinions are like? I'll give you a hint; we all got ‘em and they all stink." For those of you reading between the lines, you can...

When the NIU football team wins, someone has had a great game. The Huskies only have two wins on the year but after each win, a Huskie defender is named MAC West Defensive Player of the Week. It started with Larry English after the win over Idaho, and...

Victory was in view many times this season for the NIU football team. And after five home games, the Huskies were able to enjoy a victory, beating Kent State 27-20. "We sung the fight song for the first time [after the game]," NIU head coach Joe Novak...

No one really saw this coming. With three games left, the Huskies own a 1-8 record and have no shot at earning a bowl bid or even finishing at .500. Some would think that means there's nothing left to play for. But for the Huskies, they don't want to...

Sports are full of hopes, wishes and dreams. However, no one involved with athletics ever hopes, wishes or dreams of an injury. Every athlete will tell you that though they are competing, they would not wish injury upon any rival. But injuries happen,...

It's quite possible that no other team in the NCAA needed a bye week more than the Huskies. After nine games in a row, the Huskies have produced only one win and a number of injuries. But with only three games left, two of which are at home, the NIU football...

Brandon Mangia: So, Ben, got any plans for the weekend? Ben Gross: Well, I was going to go to Iowa to visit some friends. But then I remembered NIU football was taking on Kent State this weekend. BM: OK, so, you're not going to Iowa because Northern is...

While football and basketball get most of the attention around campus, NIU wrestling has quietly evolved into one of the successful athletic programs. And after sending four wrestlers to the NCAA tournament last season, the NIU wrestling team starts a...

As the saying goes, when it rains it pours. With three games left, the NIU football team has had a season to forget while the Chicago Bears are at the midway point of stumbling through a Super Bowl hangover. But for every horror story, there's always...