The NIU baseball team was supposed to entertain Calumet College for its home opener but instead will host Lakeland College for a doubleheader at noon Saturday at Ralph McKinzie Field. Scheduling conflicts got in the way for Calumet College, NIU coach...

Cary Groth wasn’t looking for a new job. After being at NIU to earn her bachelor’s and master’s degrees, coach and act as the athletic director, being a Huskie was all Groth had known. Perhaps Groth’s roots as a Huskie made her move to a position...

Three former NIU football players have been reunited in the NFL. Quarterback Chris Finlen and wide receivers Justin McCareins and Jon Pendergrass were picked up by the New York Jets within the past month. McCareins and Finlen played together from 1997-2000...

On the sidelines at NIU gymnastics meets this year there was a full display of hospital equipment supporting injured Huskies. Even though injuries are decreasing within gymnastics, this image has portrayed the sport as being dangerous. In 2000, 52 percent...

When NIU Athletic Director Cary Groth announced March 8 that she would take the athletic director position at the University of Nevada at Reno, NIU decided it needed a replacement. At the head of that decision is NIU President John Peters. As Peters works...

A beautiful thing happened last Tuesday at the Convocation Center. The place was rocking: with constant noise, fans with their shirts off and chests painted. With more than 5,000 fans taunting, chanting and cheering, this was a sight to be seen and something...

NIU football coach Joe Novak is used to the NIU Pro Day at the Convocation Center being a day where juniors are timed and worked out for professional scouts. This year, he said more focus was given to the seniors, who ran drills at Huskie Stadium for...

NIU football players hoping for attention at the professional level will have a chance to show their strengths to scouts at the NIU Pro Day, which begins at 8:30 a.m. today at the Convocation Center. All players will be timed in the 40-yard dash and several...

Matt Mangum is the strength and conditioning coordinator for all varsity sports at NIU. He did his first bench press competition when he was 16 years old and weighed 130 pounds. He pushed up 245 pounds. Northern Star: You oversee all 17 sports at NIU....

It seems today you can’t make it through a week of news without hearing about the latest major college to be caught in some form of scandal. The “scandalous” activities that have occurred here at NIU over the past few months are minor compared to...

Talk echoed all over the Student Recreation Center on Thursday night. Even as the line of spectators trying to leave dwindled, the independent, highly competitive intramural basketball game between teams Church and Killa Instinct continued to buzz in...

While some athletes come into college not ready to compete or use their first year as a redshirt season, NIU freshman heavyweight Joe Sapp was asked to step in immediately for the Huskies. “You have to be a pretty tough-minded freshman like Sapp [to...