Although there was tackling in the NIU Spring Football Game, many could have been fooled after watching Huskies running back A.J. Harris. Harris, considered by many as the front-runner for the starting job, started the game going 65 yards untouched for...

Editor’s note: "The burning question" will examine issues in baseball and softball that have stood the test of time, but confusion still exists about a sure answer. The series will be run in place of road-game previews. Why do baseball managers wear...

Fans will get a chance to see what’s in store for the 2004 football season at 6:30 p.m. today for NIU’s annual Spring Football Game. Tailgating begins at 3:30 p.m. and the Huskie Stadium gates open at 5 p.m. with free admission. The scrimmage is a...

unior Brian Van Acker will replace the only starting offensive lineman lost to graduation for the NIU football team. Three-year starter and All-MAC center Todd Ghilani is off to pursue a pro career, and Van Acker - who improved bench presses to 390 pounds...

Quarterback Chris Carr is wearing a colored shirt, but it’s not the one usually associated with college athletics. The 2003 high school graduate grayshirted last season, meaning he will be a true freshman for the 2004 season instead of a redshirt freshman...

Replacing a running back is nothing new for NIU football coach Joe Novak. In 1999, William Andrews rushed for 1,127 yards and nine touchdowns. Questions arose as to who would replace him. Then sophomore Thomas Hammock, a little-recruited back from Ft....

Intra-squad scrimmages aren’t the best tools to judge players and teams, but there was plenty to observe at the second of three spring scrimmages for the NIU football team Friday. Replacing Michael Turner will be quite interesting, in about the best...

NIU running back Adrian Davis always wanted to follow in his father Wayne’s footsteps. Davis began playing little league football in Louisiana when he was 7 years old. He wanted to be like his dad, who started at running back at Louisiana’s Nickels...

NIU football’s redshirt sophomore Foster Chambers doesn’t speak a foreign language, but he thought he needed to in order to play with the Huskies. A 5-foot-9, 195 pound running back, Chambers is not on scholarship and came to NIU as a walk-on. He...

Things were looking good for NIU sophomore Garrett Wolfe last spring. The 5-foot-7, 172-pound running back moved to No. 2 in the depth chart and followed with a 71-yard performance in the 2003 NIU Spring Football Game. Everything went downhill from there....

NIU gained a new offensive coordinator on March 4 when head coach Joe Novak appointed John Bond, formerly an offensive coordinator at Army, to lead the Huskies’ offense. He replaces former offensive coordinator Matt Canada, who departed for Indiana...

A USA Today study estimated that St. Joseph’s point guard Jameer Nelson is worth $2 million to the university. Four years ago when Nelson came to St Joseph’s, the team had suffered through three straight losing seasons. Now, the No. 1 seed in the...