There has been a cloud looming over the NIU football team since the end of last season. Everyone knew the Huskies would start the season surrounded be tens of thousands of screaming fans as they try to beat Ohio State in their season opener, but no one...

Now that the NCAA has finally come down on NIU for the 2004 incident involving former women's basketball player Joi Scott, we can start to break down what exactly the probation will mean to the Huskies. Despite the fact that it was a former NIU athlete...

NIU coach Steve Simmons and the men's soccer team will take to the field at 2 p.m. Wednesday for their annual intra-squad scrimmage. "It will be a measuring tool to see what [the players] have done this summer and where certain combinations fit," Simmons...

After five years of first day practices, NIU football running back Garrett Wolfe said Monday was the hardest since he's been a Huskie. After dinner, a team meeting, physicals and equipment fittings Sunday, the NIU football team strapped on their helmets...

Construction has been under way for the Academic and Athletic Performance Center, yet the project still is seeking donors to fund areas of the building. Originally estimated to cost $9.5 million, a June 7 press release by the NIU athletics department...

Before the start of the fall semester, the NIU men's soccer team will have already been hard at work on the playing field. The Huskies will play an intrasquad scrimmage Aug. 9 before heading out to play an exhibition game at DePaul Aug. 15. The annual...

DETROIT - It's starting to become standard procedure at the MAC football media day. The Huskies are once again favored to win not only the MAC West, but the conference championship as well. The general consensus of major college football publications...

DETROIT - The NIU football team's shot at a post-season bowl game just got a lot hotter, even if the location could be well below freezing. MAC commissioner Rick Chryst announced Monday at the annual MAC media day that the conference will now have three...

Since NIU football coach Joe Novak is a little busy on game days, he will have to get his tailgaiting in earlier than most football fans. Novak and some of his Huskie staff members will attend the Fourth Annual Smokin' Joe's Preseason Tailage Party hosted...

The NIU football team will see more airtime than originally thought this upcoming season. The Huskies Oct. 7 game at Miami(Ohio) has been switched to Sunday Oct. 8 and will be aired on ESPN at 7 p.m. The game is the ninth for the Huskies that will be...

Out of the corner of your eye you see it happening. A lean mass is falling at a rapid speed and it's getting ready to drive you, along with itself, into the ground. No, this isn't the image a quarterback sees before a linebacker delivers a sack; it's...

So, who was the 6-foot-4 guy wearing sandals, blue jeans and a Ron Jon Surf Shop T-shirt? If the guess was Cleveland Browns quarterback Ken Dorsey, you were right. Dorsey visited DeKalb June 30 for former San Fransisco 49ers teammate, and once NIU football...