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Bowled Over

By Ben Gross | December 11, 2006

San Diego | It wasn't the way NIU running back Garrett Wolfe wanted to say goodbye to a school that meant so much to him. The Huskies lost to Texas Christian University 37-7 Tuesday at the Poinsettia Bowl. In his final game as a Huskie, the senior rushed...

Silencing the echoes

By Sean Connor | December 11, 2006

Can you hear it? Wait a second ... listen. There it is, that chant again. Do you hear it? "Overrated." It's one of few things running back Garrett Wolfe hasn't managed to shake in his time at NIU. But it doesn't matter anymore. With one game left in his...

San Diego, here comes NIU

By Ben Gross | December 11, 2006

A trip to the San Diego Zoo, an afternoon of go-karting at the Miramar Speed Circuit and a luncheon on the USS Midway — it's hard to remember that the NIU football team will be playing a football game while in San Diego. But a five-day trip will culminate...

School of hard knocks

By Ben Gross | December 7, 2006

Well class, it saddens me to say that our time for the semester is coming to an end, as this will be our last lecture. I have graded all the midterms, and they turned out great. If you put the same amount of effort into the final you should be just fine....

Two teams. Two pasts. One bowl

By Ben Gross | December 5, 2006

Over a hundred years ago, the first bowl game was played. In 1902, Michigan and Stanford started the tradition of end-of-year bowl games as the Wolverines crushed the Cardinals 49-0. Times change. The ostrich races, which used to be part of the Rose Bowl,...

Northern Illinois or NIU?

By Ben Gross | December 5, 2006

I love tickers. You know, those things with text that run on the bottom of the screen. It doesn't matter what the ticker has in it, I love them. News, weather, stock quotes and even ones in Spanish — even though I don't know how to read a lick of Spanish....

Simple coincidence?

By Sean Connor | December 4, 2006

Fate? Maybe. Coincidence? Possibly. Weird? Most definitely. NIU's football team is playing Texas Christian University on Dec. 19 in San Diego for a Poinsettia Bowl title. The game will be played at Qualcomm Stadium, home of the NFL's San Diego Chargers....

Football player arrested

By Kenneth Lowe | December 1, 2006

DeKALB | DeKalb Police arrested an NIU football player and his twin brother in connection with a burglary that took place Nov. 25.

DeKalb Police Lt. Jim Kayes said William Ikegwuonu, a junior business administration major and NIU football player; and his brother, Jack Ikegwuonu, a student and football player for the University of Wisconsin-Madison; were arrested after a victim found both brothers in his apartment in the 800 block of Fotis Drive at about 2:00 a.m.

Kayes said one of the suspects was holding the victim's Xbox but dropped it as the victim entered his apartment. Both suspects fled and the victim gave chase, Kayes said.

According to a DeKalb Police report, one of the suspects entered an apartment building right down the street from the site of the burglary, while the other continued to run away. The victim called police, who apprehended Jack Ikegwuonu, Kayes said.

Kayes said the victim identified Jack Ikegwuonu as one of the suspects. William Ikegwuonu later came to the DeKalb Police Department, where police arrested him and his brother for residential burglary and criminal trespass to a residence.

Kayes said the brothers' statuses as university football players will not have an effect on the DeKalb Police Department's investigation into the incident.

"For us, it doesn't come into play when we're charging them," Kayes said.

Kayes said the DeKalb Police Department has a good relationship with NIU football head coach Joe Novak.

Novak said he has spoken with Ikegwuonu, and notified him that he has been suspended indefinitely from the team.

"We have a rule that as soon as you are arrested, you're suspended," Novak said. "Now we'll let it take its course and go from there."

Sweet justice

By Sean Connor | November 30, 2006

The days of 6-6 BCS teams getting bowl games over mid-major schools — see NIU football 2003 — are over. Well, somewhat. The new NCAA rule requiring bowl committees to choose 7-5 teams before 6-6 schools for at-large bowl bids has some of the six BCS...

Compass points to poinsettia

By Ben Gross | November 30, 2006

DeKALB | College students are known to have tight budgets, and trips to a bowl game usually don't fit into one. But with the holiday season approaching, the hottest gift for NIU students may be football tickets, hotel rooms and airfare. Tickets Tickets...

Bowlin’ in San Diego

By Ben Gross | November 29, 2006

DeKALB | To quote Ron Burgundy, "San Diego; in German it means...", well you get the picture. But for NIU, San Diego means the location of the Huskies third bowl appearance in school history. NIU Athletic Director Jim Phillips officially announced at...

Going back to cali

By Steve Brown | November 28, 2006

Huskie football players can stop waiting and hoping, and plug Led Zeppelin's "Going to California" into their Ipods. For the second time in three years, NIU will head to California for a post-season bowl game, this time against Texas Christian in the...

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