This past year was one of change for NIU graduate and San Francisco 49ers wide receiver P.J. Fleck. The Kaneland native spent much of the year on the 49ers practice squad before being activated for the team’s season finale at New England. In the game,...

Christmas break is over. Some students replenished their bank accounts while others caught up on some much needed sleep. Unless you avoided campus the last three weeks of the semester, this was no ordinary Christmas. Huskie fans had a reason to watch...

SAN JOSE, Calif. - An unfamiliar name was one of two NIU football players to take home MVP honors at the Dec. 30 Silicon Valley Football Classic. Thanks to a key blocked punt and a couple big tackles on kickoffs, sophomore strong safety Dustin Utschig...

SAN JOSE - While most were sleeping or shopping the day after Christmas, the NIU football team was ready to go. After leaving Huskie Stadium at 8 a.m., the Huskies departed on a four-day trip that saw bridges, jails, schools, a lot of rain, and culminated...

Terrance Smith’s trip to NIU’s bowl game was a long time coming. A 64-year-old Big Rock native, Smith is a long time NIU fan who has bought football season tickets since 1996. Why would he buy season tickets to a team who was beginning a 23-game losing...

SAN JOSE, Calif. - The hype and anticipation is over. All the waiting and wondering of how it was going to end has passed by. Now, with a bowl victory behind them, Josh Haldi and the rest of the NIU senior class have all the time in the world to sit back...

For three roommates and self-proclaimed avid Huskies football fans, a Bowl game has been a long time coming. To Jason Braddock, Adam Smith and Zach Alesandrini, the cost of a trip to San Jose, Calif., to see NIU play in the Silicon Valley Football Classic...

Never heard of Troy? That’s OK; you are probably in the majority. The school formerly known as Troy State, located in Troy, Ala., decided in April to drop the “State” in its name - hence Troy. The move must have paid off as the Troy Trojans finished...

California, here we come. The NIU football team learned Sunday afternoon that it will play Troy University in the Silicon Valley Football Classic in San Jose, Calif. Dec. 30. The game will kick off at 10 p.m. CST at Spartan Stadium and will be televised...

This holiday season, the NIU football team will finally board a plane. Problem is, no one knows where it’s heading yet. The Huskies will either take off for the Independence Bowl in Shreveport, La. or head west to the Silicon Valley Football Classic...

The wait is over for the NIU football team -well, sort of. It was announced Wednesday that the Huskies will be offered a bid to play in either the Independence Bowl or the Silicon Valley Football Classic. The offer will be made after the BCS Selection...

Glen Krupica is a 1982 graduate of NIU. He also happens to be the executive director of the Independence Bowl held in Shreveport, La. On Wednesday, the MAC and the Independence Bowl announced a one-year agreement, giving the conference a fifth guaranteed...