It's May and I'm beginning to hear a familiar tune around campus. The seniors have been humming it, counting down the days till the symphony will perform the classic. The tune is "Pomp and Circumstance." The day is graduation. And as those seniors walk...

DeKALB | A right-wrist injury has relegated sophomore shortstop Bobby Stevens to a pinch running role for the rest of the season. The road to the MAC Tournament for NIU just got a little tougher, as Stevens is expected to be in a cast until early June....

DeKALB | Chicagoland doesn't have to say goodbye to running back Garrett Wolfe just yet, but several other NIU players are moving on. On Saturday, the Chicago Bears took Wolfe with the 93rd pick in the third round of the 2007 NFL Draft. Wolfe became the...

DeKALB | Garrett Wolfe saw it coming from a mile away. We all did. Time and time again, NIU's human water bug has put up with the ‘He's too short, undersized, isn't big enough to play football' sh..., um, stuff. And fans have got to love that SI.com's...

One man's journey began on the streets of Chicago. The other's started along the Lake Michigan shoreline in Manitowoc, Wis. Eventually, Garrett Wolfe and Doug Free's paths would cross at NIU. But their travels along the glory roads of football have not...

DeKALB | Leadership is something NIU head coach Joe Novak has stressed this spring. And with only 10 seniors - four of which are starters - on the team, this season the head coach knew the juniors would have to step up. For the first time in his 12 years...

Instead of the NIU script letters across his chest, a giant "S" would have done just fine. It may have just been Marcus McCarty soaring into the stands after an overtime goal to beat Wisconsin 1-0 on Oct. 22, but it sure as heck looked like Superman....

DeKALB | NIU football coach Joe Novak wanted to make one thing clear after Saturday's Spring Game: Garrett Wolfe is gone. "Fans can't look for No. 1 out there in the backfield," Novak said. "Our running backs have stepped up this spring. But we probably...

DeKALB | Aug. 1, 2007. That's the day the Yordon Center will officially open. And just five days later, it will be occupied by hundreds of bodies, as the NIU football team reports for practice. The new Academic and Athletic Performance Center is something...

DeKALB | With 15 practices in the books, the NIU football team closes up shop until next fall with the Spring Game at 1 p.m. Saturday at Huskie Stadium. Five burning questions were addressed in the pages of the sports section this week, and Saturday is...

DeKALB | To pose the biggest question NIU's football team must answer before next season would only be asking the obvious. So, rather than worry about who will fill the black hole left by the nation's leading rusher in Garrett Wolfe, Coach Joe Novak and...