At one point this season the NIU football team had the leading rusher in the nation. However, junior running back Garrett Wolfe suffered a knee injury Oct. 5 against Eastern Michigan, leaving senior Adrian Davis to carry the load. Davis ran for 252 yards...

Josh Haldi never did it. Neither did Michael Turner. Or LeShon Johnson. The names go on and on. Now Brian Van Acker hopes he doesn’t become the next name on the list. That’s why he’s had Nov. 16 in the back of his mind since before the season started....

I remember going to football games during my freshman year with 25,000-plus screaming fans at just about every game. The energy, excitement and noise of those games can’t even be described with words. When football season came to a close I was disappointed...

Dennis Hastert, speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, will be at the 2005 NIU Wrestling Showcase Meet. Hastert is a former teacher, football and wrestling coach at Yorkville High School. In his third term as speaker, Hastert will headline a fundraising...

It’s an old saying that you can’t control life and you only have power over what you do. Everything else is out of your control. The football teams of the MAC could take this lesson to heart as five MAC West teams can statistically win a berth to...

When the 2005 football season began, Dan Nicholson was an unknown third-string quarterback relegated to giving signals from the sidelines. But after starter Phil Horvath broke his arm Saturday at Central Michigan, the redshirt freshman was called upon...

When you snag the second-most receiving yards in MAC history you’re almost a lock to be MAC Player of the Week. With his 12 receptions for an NIU-record 266 yards, receiver Sam Hurd took home his first MAC West Offensive Player of the Week of the season....

What more could one man want out of life? George Bork revolutionized college football, stormed the NCAA record books, had Sports Illustrated and Time magazine begging for interviews, won a national championship and in 1999 was enshrined into the College...

NIU junior quarterback Phil Horvath will miss the remainder of the 2005 football season with a broken left arm sustained Saturday in NIU’s 31-28 win over Central Michigan. With about two minutes remaining in the first quarter, Horvath threw an incomplete...

On ESPN Saturday night, college football analyst Mark May gave a game helmet to senior wide receiver Sam Hurd for his 12-catch, 266-yard performance against Central Michigan. He also should have handed out two more helmets; one each to Dan Nicholson and...

Kneeling on the turf with a broken left arm, NIU junior quarterback Phil Horvath yelled to his sideline to fire up his teammates. After his team surrendered a fourth-quarter touchdown, even-keeled NIU coach Joe Novak hunted down a referee and gave him...

Sometimes a loss is just what a team needs to regain focus - a wakeup call for the rest of the season. At least that’s what NIU coach Joe Novak hopes for Saturday. After a crushing loss to Ball State at home last week, the NIU football team (4-4 overall,...