The college football season officially is over. But, a pair of Huskies will be remembered for many seasons after this one, at least in the record books. Running back Michael Turner finished the year as the nation’s second leading rusher and all-purpose...

ThunderStix will be back this weekend for NIU’s crucial game against Toledo at 11:05 a.m. Saturday. But it won’t just be ThunderStix found amongst the predicted crowd of 25,000; fans can also expect CheerStix to grace the crowd. Don’t get too excited;...

You’ve all been wondering, the suspense has been cut and the answer is here: ThunderStix will be back! You asked for them and they are coming back, and this time maybe twice as many. The first 5,000 fans at the football game against Toledo Nov. 23 will...

The sky was the limit a season ago. Excitement was inevitable with the volleyball team last year just like it is with the football squad this year. Oh, but how things can change in a flash. A year after winning the MAC outright, the volleyball team is...

Four votes. Doesn’t sound like much until it is put into perspective. This week NIU’s football team received four votes in the USA Today/ESPN Coaches Poll. The votes received by the poll are the first votes since 1989 when the Huskies finished 9-2...

An opposing quarterback fakes a handoff to his running back. He rolls out to the right, looking for his tight end in the flat. NIU linebacker Larry Williams wasn’t fooled by the fake. He breaks to his left and picks off the QB’s pass. While Williams’...

While the NIU football team is stealing the headlines, the NIU men’s tennis team had some success of its own over the weekend at the ITA Midwest Regional IV Championship. The duo of Juan Pablo Barriga and Erick Martinez won the doubles draw to advance...

The garden is green, the fruit is ripe and things are looking awfully good for the NIU football team. When the Huskies welcome in 18th-ranked Bowling Green on Nov. 9, the stakes will be high and the players fully realize this. "This is a real big game...

It would be safe to say this year’s NIU football team has ventured into unfamiliar territory. The Huskies (5-3, 4-0) have won four straight games for the first time under coach Joe Novak and won’t need any help to claim a MAC West Division title....

Coaching major college football for 28 years is considered an amazing feat by many. But living with a major college football coach for 33 years, like Carole Novak has, that’s monumental. "It’s an exciting life," said Carole Novak, wife of NIU coach...

Senior defensive tackle Anthony Falbo will have surgery on his dislocated right wrist Thursday and be sidelined for the rest of the season. The 6-foot-3, 283-pound Falbo missed the majority of Saturday’s game against Central Michigan after injuring...

In front of 20,186 fans Saturday afternoon, the NIU football team had a 49-0 Homecoming victory over Central Michigan. Winning its fourth straight MAC contest, NIU (5-3, 4-0) totaled its most points since Oct. 28, 2000, when it beat Buffalo 73-10. In...