Yes, it’s still football season and most Huskies fans are not readily awaiting the beginning of the basketball season. But a crazy event happened Friday night at the Convocation Center. The NIU men’s basketball team’s lightly publicized Midnight...

After rushing for a career-high 226 yards and four touchdowns Saturday against Central Michigan, NIU’s Garrett Wolfe received the MAC West Offensive Player of the Week award on Monday. Wolfe’s output against CMU was the most yards of any running back...

Editor’s note: NIU football coach Joe Novak allowed the Northern Star locker-room access before, during and after Saturday’s game against Central Michigan. This is what the Star saw and heard. To be or not to be. To wear sleeves or not. The issue...

A year after suspension, the NIU men’s rugby club was back in action Sunday as it finished second while hosting the six-team Chicago Area Rugby Football Union Tournament. Two years ago, men’s rugby, which had been an NIU club since 1968, was dropped...

Three weeks ago, NIU football coach Joe Novak didn’t think Garrett Wolfe could carry the ball 30 times a game. After Wolfe’s 29 carries and 142 yards Oct. 16 against Central Florida and 37 carries for 226 yards Saturday in NIU’s 42-10 win over Central...

NIU coach Joe Novak admits he isn’t one to take a lot of stock in halftime speeches. He knows if his players are capable of making the changes necessary to win a game and he lets them do just that. On Saturday, the Huskies went into the locker room...

The NIU football team has a 4-2 record. That record could have easily been flip-flopped if Southern Illinois had completed a last-minute two-point conversion and if kicker Chris Nendick hadn’t nailed a 39-yard field goal as time expired against Central...

Last season, Central Michigan received a pleasant surprise in the form of a 5-foot-6, 190-pound running back from Mirimar, Fla. After the departure of the graduated Robbie Mixon in 2002, Chippewa freshman Jerry Seymour did what he could to help the CMU...

This Saturday’s Homecoming game with Central Michigan could be extra special for NIU defensive end Travis Moore. The senior may have more than one homecoming, as his wife is due to have their first child on game day. Moore, who’s not much of a baseball...

MAC officials are not worried about the loss of Marshall and Central Florida to Conference USA next season. Marshall signed a membership agreement with C-USA last October after being in the MAC since 1997. Since joining the MAC, Marshall has won five...

NIU athletics is hoping to match the sellout of last year’s Homecoming game this Saturday against Central Michigan. About 4,000 student tickets remain for the Homecoming game, which is traditionally less crowded than family weekend games, said Assistant...

Editor’s note: This feature is courtesy of Central Michigan Life, the CMU student newspaper. NIU plays CMU at 3:05 p.m. Saturday at Huskie Stadium. This is how it was supposed to be. This is how it should have been. This is what he waited for. Kent...