It’s 8:10 p.m. and the lights of Huskie Stadium illuminate a crisp fall evening. The echoes of NIU’s 24-8 victory over Eastern Michigan are long gone. Left in the wake of empty cups and used paper plates is a "family" of tailgaters toasting 40 years...

With donations ranging from world-wide corporations to the home-town bar and grill, the NIU Athletics Department partially funds its 496 athletes and 17 athletic programs. Gatorade, Adidas, Pepsi, Allstate, Applebee’s, Castle Bank, Fatty’s, Culver’s...

Churches are louder than Huskie Stadium Mondays. Lying near the residence halls on the west side of campus, the 40-year-old west grandstand lays silent during the week. The entire building is forgotten until the next home football game. While Saturdays...

NIU football coach Joe Novak is thankful for his depth at running back right about now. Starting junior running back Garrett Wolfe and senior backup A.J. Harris both suffered injuries in Saturday’s game versus Eastern Michigan that will likely keep...

It was a light-hearted postgame press conference for the NIU football team, considering it had just lost its top two running backs. But with Adrian Davis waiting in the wings, there was no need to worry. The third-string senior running back stepped in...

When the NIU football team’s offense sputtered in its sloppy 24-8 win over Eastern Michigan, it got some unexpected help from... the defense? The same defense that has struggled all season found itself bailing out an offense we thought would never miss...

Every new football season brings a rhythm. The players and coaches all get into routines of practices, meetings and Saturday games. But when NIU (2-3 overall, 1-1 MAC) takes the field against Eastern Michigan (3-3, 2-1) for the 99th Annual Homecoming...

Two steps forward and two steps back has been the MAC pattern of play for the NIU women’s soccer team. To get back to .500 in conference, NIU (4-7-2, 2-4 MAC) must pass the tough tests posed by Central Michigan today at noon and Eastern Michigan at...

NIU alumnus Adam Dach, Kevin Ekberg, Joe Plaskas and Niki VanHooreweghe, will join the 1989-90 NIU women’s basketball team in the 24th class to be enshrined in the NIU Athletics Hall of Fame. Festivities take place tonight at the Holmes Student Center’s...

Garrett Wolfe remembers last Nov. 20 quite well. That day marked NIU’s last game of the 2004 season, and NIU was playing for a bowl-game berth. The junior running back rose to the occasion and ripped off a school-record 325 yards in a 34-16 beating...

The NIU cross country team owns the Benedictine Invitational. For the fourth consecutive year, head coach Connie Teaberry’s squad finished first in team competition. A herd of NIU runners dotted the Top 10 and Christina Nieto led the way with a third-place...

In her sophomore year she became the master of kills on the volleyball court. Now, after receiving her communication degree from NIU in 2003, Tenisha Wilkins studies at Chicago State to become a master of English so she can teach high school. However,...