BLOOMINGTON - State championships in events ranging from golf to Scholastic Bowl could be jeopardized under a proposed law that would cap the Illinois High School Association’s income from postseason tournaments, IHSA officials said Tuesday. Rep. Kurt...

1 - MEN’S BASKETBALL TAMES WILDCATS Christmas came five days early for the NIU men’s basketball team. In front of the largest Convocation Center crowd this season, the Huskies knocked off then No. 34 Kansas State 75-70 in overtime. The game went down...

The Journey There Many students decided the best way to journey to the MAC Championship was to take buses NIU offered. "I took the bus because it was the cheapest way up," junior special education major Jacqueline Glynn said. "You get a T-shirt, bus ride,...

Editor’s note: On Thursday the Northern Star sent a reporter to journal about his experience on the student buses destined for the Mac Championship game in Detroit. It’s 8 a.m. Thursday, and 100 students stand outside of the NIU Convocation Center...

The 2005 roller coaster season has come to an end for the NIU football team. With the loss to Akron in the MAC Championship game Thursday, NIU’s chance of going to a bowl game was pretty much gone. The two bowl tie-ins in the MAC had already been filled,...

Hundreds of students at the Carl Sandburg Auditorium bellowed a collective groan Thursday as a 36-yard touchdown pass in the closing seconds burst the bubble on the 2005 season for NIU football. A pin drop could be heard as silence replaced cheers when...

DETROIT - Ah, Detroit in December. Is there any better place to be during the Holiday time? Who am I kidding? Any one of the NIU players walking off the field Thursday night probably could have told you just how they felt about Detroit at that exact moment....

DETROIT - NIU’s Britt Davis laid face down on the field. Teammate Pat Raleigh shook his head. They seemed to wonder, "Did that really just happen?" It did. Freshman quarterback Dan Nicholson’s last-second desperation pass had just fallen harmlessly...

When Garrett Wolfe had started at running back, the NIU football team had never lost a MAC game. That was until NIU met Akron Sept. 24. The lone blemish on an otherwise sterling conference record for the junior tailback was the 48-42 overtime loss at...

It’s always been the goal: Win the MAC Championship. But every season, no matter how successful, NIU seems to come up short on its goal. Well, at long last, the day to take it to the next level has arrived. At 6:30 p.m. today, at Ford Field in Detroit,...

As NIU head coach since 1995, Joe Novak has posted 6 straight winning seasons. A stunning statistic considering from 1969 to 1995, NIU posted only 7 above .500 campaigns on the gridiron. The 60-year-old Novak speaks in a calm and confident tone, his broad...

A touchdown celebration tells a lot about a player’s personality. Terrell Owens once pulled a pen out of his sock and signed the ball. Joe Horn stashed a cell phone under the goal post and then made a call after his touchdown. And whether it’s proposing...