DeKALB | Talk about a who's who of college universities. As Sunday Night Football kicked off two nights ago, faces of the Indianapolis Colts offensive starters appeared like a slide show. They would look at the camera, say their name, and then proclaim...

DeKALB | I hated that the White Sox won the World Series last year. Not only because I am a Cubs fan, but because every White Sox fan I knew started singing "Don't Stop Believing" by Journey. What once was a great song about hope now makes me think of...

DeKALB | Despite another NIU football loss, Huskies' running back Garrett Wolfe continued to move up in the record books. The fifth-year senior is now third on NIU's career rushing chart after recording 196 yards on 24 carries Saturday. Wolfe now has...

DeKALB | Ohio 35, NIU 23 sums up the game. "We got whipped. We got whipped good," said NIU coach Joe Novak. "I thought we got out-coached. We didn't tackle well enough, we didn't cover well enough, didn't protect well enough, didn't catch well enough....

Two crashing shots from the cannon in the south end zone did more than ring a final note on a 35-23 NIU football loss. It signaled deja-vu. After a 2005 season that ended in heartbreak, this was the year for NIU to finally win the MAC Championship. Everyone...

DeKALB | No. 1 Ohio State had 488 yards of offense against NIU's defense last week. This was the same OSU team that beat No. 2 Texas 24-7 Saturday, the same day Ohio amassed 509 yards against the Huskies defense. Ohio quarterback Austen Everson became...

DeKALB | If Ohio football coach Frank Solich is looking for consistency at the cornerback spot this season, he has it in senior T.J. Wright. After playing all 12 games in his freshman year, and only starting one, Wright has been a mainstay in the Bobcats'...

Updated: 7:40 p.m. Saturday DeKALB, Sept. 9 | For the second straight week, the NIU football team faced off against a school from Ohio. But that's where the similarities were supposed to end as NIU lost yet again Saturday 35-23. No longer were the Huskies...

Defensive line Quad-captain and fifth-year senior defensive end Ken West told NIU coach Joe Novak that he'd do his best to get 15 sacks this season. West and sophomore Larry English are the bookends of a line that includes two 6-foot-5 and 280-plus pound...

DeKALB | Students looking to attend NIU's football game will have to act fast — about 2,100 student tickets are left for Saturday's football game against Ohio. Assistant Athletic Director for Marketing Todd Garzarelli said a sell-out by tomorrow is...

DeKALB | "Gross" is more than just a synonym for disgusting, nasty or foul. It also represents the number 144. It's a useful word that has been forgotten in our modern age. Uses ranging from a chef needing a gross of eggs for a recipe to someone weighing...

DeKALB | After coaching Nebraska to a 10-3 record in 2003, Ohio University football coach Frank Solich was fired. After taking a year off, Solich returned to coaching last fall, leading Ohio to a 4-7 record. Solich and the Bobcats will bring a 1-0 mark...