Taking a trip to Saturday’s NIU vs. Maryland football game in College Park would cost about $400 by plane and $230 by car. If you are looking to avoid these costs - yet still follow the game - there are few options available. Despite NIU’s upset of...

Ready or not, it’s here. The kickoff Saturday at Maryland begins the best time of the year to be in DeKalb: football season. One could feel the excitement and intensity last season as NIU tore through its first eight opponents without a loss. Suddenly,...

Saturday not only marks the beginning of NIU’s football season, but also a rare three-day weekend. Using the logic of a college student majoring in mathematics, these two occurrences, when added together, equate to one thing - it’s time for a road...

NIU football’s incoming freshman class is stepping into territory that hasn’t been explored since the mid-1960s. The entire team - with the exception of one player - has never experienced a losing season while wearing cardinal and black. Senior offensive...

Welcome to major college football, Chris Nendick. P How about for your first game - as a true freshman - you’re the starting kicker for NIU in it season-opening game at 22nd-ranked Maryland? P Oh, and let’s not forget you’re replacing Steve Azar,...

Members of the NIU football team’s defensive line don’t deny expectations are low for them. But members of a predominantly young and inexperienced NIU defensive line aren’t bothered by this. “Initially, they’ll think we’re inexperienced,”...

Ninth-year NIU football coach Joe Novak has not had an easy road to success. His program has endured the deaths of two players (Shea Fitzgerald and Jawan Jackson), the loss of star running back Thomas Hammock in midseason to a heart ailment, a 23-game...

Senior quarterback on path to break NIU passing records. F.our years ago, NIU quarterback Josh Haldi wasn’t worried about breaking school records or leading a team to win the Mid-American Conference. P “At that point, I was just worried about playing,”...

NIU’s new athletics director Jim Phillips grew up as one of 10 kids on Chicago’s north-west side. A former University of Illinois student, he is happy to return to Illinois from South Bend, Ind. where he served as the associate athletics director...

A wise man once said that patience is a virtue. It’s a guarantee that the old geezer wasn’t talking about this season and the NIU football team. But that expression couldn’t hold any truer in this scenario. In what could very well start as a 1-3...

Along with the emergence of the NIU football team has come an increase in Huskie players in the NFL. Members of the 2003 squad - Michael Turner (San Diego Chargers), Akil Grant (Tennessee Titans) and P.J. Fleck (San Francisco 49ers) are still on active...

For those of you who haven’t kept up with NIU sports for the summer, worry no more. This is your link to all the new signings, players drafted, hirings, transfers and arrests with current and former Huskies. Football NIU hall-of-famer arrested Former...