During the past football season, much of the talk about the Huskies revolved around a quarterback controversy. Namely, should Stacey McKinney be starting ahead of Rob Rugai? That specific question appears to be answered for the coming season with the...

Coming down the homestretch, the NIU men's basketball team is a group of tired Huskies. With good reason. Head coach Brian Hammel's squad has been down to nine bodies, some healthier than others, this semester. The Huskies have managed to build a 9-13,...

In the NIU wrestling room in Chick Evans Field House, 3:50 p.m., Feb. 3, T.C. Dantzler makes an announcement to everyone within earshot. "Hey, guys, I bet I don't get taken down today." Dantzler is a member of the NIU wrestling team. The 158-pound junior...

Lack of success and proximity seem to be the major drawbacks for the NIU football team when it comes to recruiting players from the Chicagoland area. Only four of the 24 signed players by NIU head coach Charlie Sadler last week hail from Illinois. Some...

NIU's choice to travel down the Canadian route for football players seems to have produced mixed reactions. Coming off a 2-9 campaign, the one coach that NIU sent to Canada for recruiting purposes ended up signing six high- schoolers and one junior college...

The NIU football team, coming off a 2-9 campaign last season, obviously had some holes to fill. Those holes appear less ominous with the release of the names of 24 Letter of Intent signees. Ten of the signees are junior college transfers, including one...

The NIU wrestling team will have its work cut out when it travels to Cedar Falls, Iowa, Saturday to take on Northern Iowa and Illinois State.‘ Host Northern Iowa will greet the Huskies and the Redbirds as one of the top five teams in the nation. The...

With the NIU men's basketball team down to nine players, three of them walk-ons, any victory is bound to be a team effort. And that was certainly the case last night in Charleston as the depleted Huskies stunned Eastern Illinois 76-67 in a Mid-Continent...

The NIU wrestling team had the University of Notre Dame in an amiable position. The Huskies only trailed the Fighting Irish by four points (13-9) after the first six matches, but ND's strength down the stretch provided the 34-9 final difference. Shannon...

NIU students might not recognize the basketball team that takes the court Saturday night against Illinois-Chicago. Yes, that team in white is the Huskies, the NIU Huskies minus several players (absent because of academic ineligibility or because of off-court...

Senior Associate Athletic Director Cary Groth has designed a committee to define the use of $10,000 for an athletic training fund referred to as "nutritional supplements." At the December meeting of the Athletic Board yesterday, all of an NCAA broad-based...

As NCAA reforms slowly change the face of collegiate athletics, NIU Athletic Director Gerald O'Dell recently discussed the state of NIU athletics and some of its most pressing issues. One of the perennial issues facing NIU is conference affiliation for...