Britt Davis stepped to the line of scrimmage like he had done thousands of times in his life, but this time was different. Not because he was playing the first college snap of his life. Not because he was in front of a crowd much bigger than most NFL...

ANN ARBOR, Mich. - They were still dressed in uniforms and pads, had just lost their first game of the season and faced a six-hour bus ride home. But after falling 33-17 to No. 4 Michigan, the collective feeling from NIU players in the post-game press...

ANN ARBOR, Mich. - A sight I believed only could be visioned in dreams was reality Saturday. National television, 110,971 fans and a crystal-blue sky all helped make up a day I will never forgot as NIU’s football team took on No. 4 Michigan. Rolling...

While many students know NIU will play a football game in Evanston Saturday, few knew NIU played soccer this weekend in Evanston. The men’s soccer team went 1-0-1 and finished second at the third annual Lakeside Classic. The Huskies started the tournament...

Two different roads. Two different destinations. One similarity. The last time these two were together, they had been fired. In 1979, NIU coach Joe Novak and Michigan coach Lloyd Carr both left the University of Illinois without a job. "Neither of us...

Football coaches tried their best simulate what playing in front of a crowd of more than 100,000 will be like. During practice this week at Huskie Stadium, blaring chants and screams of fans echoed off empty bleachers. The noise was there, through the...

The new starting linebackers for the NIU football team don’t really qualify as Huskies yet. They’re more like Puppies. That’s not a slight to starters Jason Hutton (middle linebacker), T.J. Griffin (strongside) and Keenan Blalark (weakside). They...

Ball State Cardinals (2-9, 2-6) The Cardinals lost the nation’s leading receiver in Dante Ridgeway, who left after his junior season to be drafted by the St. Louis Rams. Ball State will need quarterback Joey Lynch to step up to keep a defense that ranked...

NIU football head coach Joe Novak has had the same goals since he took over the program in 1996: win a Mid-American Conference championship and a bowl game. The MAC championship trophy has proved to be an elusive goal for the Huskies, however. NIU has...

On Saturday afternoon, a sea of more than 100,000 blue and yellow-clad fans will descend on Ann Arbor, Mich. to watch No. 4-ranked University of Michigan play its first home football game of the season against NIU. But in three days, cameras for the nationally-televised...

There were no cheers, no whistles, no laughs; only echoes. A pair of scuffling gym shoes on the concrete floor reverberated off the tunnel walls, but there was no one else there. The two were all alone. The old door at the end of the tunnel cracked open...

With Saturday’s game at Michigan creeping ever closer, things have started to solidify for the NIU football team. At the running back position, it’s possible that junior Garrett Wolfe and A.J. Harris will share the same backfield. "We’ve tried A.J....