Spring practices began Monday for the NIU football team, kicking off the first preparations for the April 23 Spring Game. The game, which usually takes place on a Thursday night, will be moved to a Saturday at noon in hopes of a better turnout. NIU football...

In just a mere whisper, the NIU men’s basketball season came and passed just as quietly. Unless you were actually in attendance at the games, you probably didn’t even notice that it happened. Who could blame them? For the most part, the season was...

DeKALB - The 2004-05 NIU men’s basketball season died Monday, March 8, 2005 at the Alumni Arena in Buffalo, New York. It began Monday, Nov. 9, with a 101-51 exhibition victory over the Illinois Institute of Technology and finished with an expected 73-66...

"It’s a wishbone of speed." That’s how NIU football coach Joe Novak described his backfield after Monday’s NIU Pro Day at the Convocation Center. After a morning filled with stop watches and 40-yard dashes, Novak left the Convo knowing he had players...

DeKalb police issued warrants Friday for two NIU football players who used another football player’s identity to buy clothing, food and electronics. Joseph Pomaranski, 19, originally of Bensenville, and Antonio Tribble, 21, originally of Riverdale,...

Forty yards can make or break you as a football player. NIU football player A.J. Harris knows how true that is. When he and the rest of his teammates walk into the Convocation Center at 7 a.m. today, all their bodies will be tuned for one thing and one...

Former Huskies running back Thomas Hammock started a career with Wells Fargo Financial after graduating from NIU, but football once again came calling. After spending two seasons as an administrative and graduate assistant under Barry Alvarez at Wisconsin,...

INDIANAPOLIS - NIU has six of the more than 400 sports teams at the nation’s Division I level that could lose scholarships next year under the NCAA’s new academic standards, according to a report released Monday. Most of the scholarship losses, which...

Apparently Josh Haldi wasn’t the only one impressed with his 40-yard dash time at the NFL combine. After Haldi ran a 4.69, the Toledo Blade reported that the senior NIU quarterback could end up being a late-round pick as a run-support safety. Haldi...

Mike McKinney grinned as he hustled back on defense after hitting a three-pointer that put NIU up 46-29 in the second half. The Huskie guard’s teammates beamed as well after Bowling Green called a timeout following the play. Later, after NIU topped...

Shatone Powers couldn’t make it to his intramural game Wednesday at the Campus Recreation Center. The Huskies’ wide receiver had a more important game with the NIU men’s basketball team against Bowling Green, the MAC West’s top team. Although...

NIU wide receiver Shatone Powers had entertained the thought of playing two sports at NIU. When Powers came in as a freshman, NIU basketball coach Rob Judson and NIU football coach Joe Novak had an arrangement that would have allowed Powers to play both...