Three years ago, NIU lost its season opener to Maryland. In the second week of that season, the Huskies played their first game at Huskie Stadium. The opponent that day was Southern Illinois and the outcome was a 23-22 NIU victory. It came to the very...

Editor's note: The following story is writing on a simulated game between NIU and SIU on EA Sports' NCAA 2008 video game. The Northern Illinois football team came out looking to make a statement against their rivals from the south, Southern Illinois,...

One of the Huskies' tests this Saturday will be to contain SIU's John Randle, the Saluki's featured running back. The 5-foot-11, 195 lb. Randle rushed for a career high 132 yards and two touchdowns on 18 carries last week in a win over Quincy University....

By now, anyone remotely interested in college football knows what happened in Ann Arbor, Mich. last weekend. Michigan, one of the most successful college football programs in NCAA history, was upset by Appalachian State 34-32. Upon hearing the outcome...

There's a local saying in Chicago that if you live south of I-80, you live in Kentucky. By that definition, Carbondale, the home of Southern Illinois, is not even part of the state. Thus, some have suggested the game this weekend will be a rematch of...

For a weekend, downtown Chicago looked like Iowa City. Everywhere I looked there was gold and black. At the Cubs game, in my old stomping grounds of the South Loop, and up and down Lake Shore Drive. The press box announcer might have called it Huskie...

CHICAGO â€" A six-point lead - that's what Iowa held over NIU early in the second quarter of Saturday's game. Facing fourth and six on the 40-yard line, NIU head coach Joe Novak called on his senior place-kicker, Chris Nendick. The Lou Groza Award...

After months of build-up, it's finally here. The NIU football team opens up its 2007 season by hosting Iowa on Saturday at historic Soldier Field in Chicago. The sold-out game is slated for a 2:30 p.m. kick-off and has already set a MAC attendance record...

The air was hot and thick as over 70 people, some sweating, crammed the Holmes Student Center basement. But this was also the last chance for Huskie fans to buy a student ticket for the NIU football team's sold out season opener. At 4 p.m. the Campus...

Last season, Iowa defensive end Bryan Mattison had a career day on Oct. 28. On that cold fall afternoon, the junior compiled nine total tackles and broke up two passes. It just so happens that on Oct. 28, 2006, Iowa's opponent was NIU. Entering his final...

You hear it from time-to-time: Sports becomes an escape for those that need to overcome life's struggles. But rarely do sports help set the tone for the rest of someone's life. For redshirt sophomore running back Justin Anderson, football became his passion...

Different. That one word seems to describe a whole number of situations for the 2007 NIU football team. However, one thing that isn't different for the Huskies - the mission to win a MAC championship. Led by four junior captains, the Huskies will be a...