With two days remaining until the NIU Homecoming football game, tickets are still available for students and the general public. Eric Schultz, associate director of ticketing said there are just under half of the 6,000 tickets allotted to students remaining....

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...

Ah, what a day. A day when 50 degrees is the high and the infamous DeKalb wind pierces flesh and bone. It’s a morning when the gray skies hanging over DeKalb do not allow a single ray of sunshine to penetrate. This is the perfect day for ... a car wash?...

In her first year on the job, Marci Miller has NIU off to a 4-5-2 start. The Northern Star sat down for five minutes and discovered a deeply spiritual person who has a sweet tooth, a palate for coffee and seven siblings (Maggie, Mini, Mary, Monica, Mike,...

Pittsburg State in Kansas has been fielding a football team since 1929. More than 1,000 players have donned its red-and-yellow uniforms. The school has achieved a consistent run of success, including three national titles in its class. A few years ago,...

A nagging shoulder injury may force junior running back Garrett Wolfe to undergo surgery in the offseason. After sustaining the injury against Michigan in the season-opener, Wolfe sat out the second half against Tennessee Tech Sept. 17 after reaggravating...

I’m going to go out on a limb and say something most NIU students don’t know yet: NIU has one of the best football teams in the country. Wait a second, that was a typo. It should say that NIU has one of the best "futbol" teams in the country. Yes,...

There will be a little more pressure for former NIU linebacker Marlon Watson than for most players when he takes the field for the Kane County Eagles Saturday at 7 p.m. at Huskie Stadium against the Racine Raiders. The pressure is not because he will...

It was a tale of two halves. With both teams coming in needing a win, it came down to who had the better half of football. And unfortunately for Miami, NIU’s 28-point first half was enough to hold on to a 38-27 victory. "We dug ourselves into too big...

Welcome to the future. Ushered in by true freshmen linebackers Josh Allen and Phil Brown, tonight begins a new era for NIU football. An era of speed and athleticism. As more and more MAC teams open their offenses and rely on the pass, defenses have begun...

There will be no sleeping in for the Huskies Saturday. Despite not having a game, NIU football players won’t get to relax on their day off. The football team and the cheerleading squad will run the "Huskie Hurricane Helpers" car wash from 9 a.m. to...

After putting together an eight-year streak of indisputably classic albums, even Bob Dylan hit a snag. In 1970, the rock icon put out "Self-Portrait," which will be best remembered as one of Dylan’s most forgettable albums. For the last three years,...