Texas A&M University has contacted NIU Athletic Director Gerald O'Dell about permission to talk to head basketball coach Jim Molinari. "Yes, they have contacted me," O'Dell said. "It's that time of the year when coaching changes take place. So, it's...

The NIU soccer team's all-time second-leading goal scorer hopes to make some different types of goals come next fall. Willy Roy Jr., a senior who led the 1990 soccer team to the Mid-Continent Conference crown, decided to come back to NIU for graduate...

The sight of pigskins flying through the air is coming back to DeKalb soon, and not just because it's tornado season. The Huskies' football team is set to return to the field (or in NIU's case, the carpet) to prepare for the coming season starting on...

Nine of the 16 NIU sports teams get additional travel money to go on "special trips," which account for an extra $35,000 in the budget. These special trips include the winter team's voyages and the spring break trips. Teams can only take in-season trips....

In terms of athlete-graduation rates, NIU fits in towards the top of the Mid-Continent Conference and the conference, in turn, falls roughly in the middle of the national average. According to numbers recently published in the Chronicle of Higher Education,...

NIU's graduation rate for its student-athletes, according to its latest report, is the same as NIU's general student body, 48.3 percent. NIU must file an academic report to the NCAA each year which charts the graduation rates over a five-year period for...

Who will be NIU's next Stacey Robinson? The answer to that question may be contained in the recently released list of high school football players that have signed national letters of intent to attend NIU. Although Robinson's successor at the quarterback...

Backup NIU quarterback Bart Geiser was arrested this weekend at Molly's Eatery and Drinkery, 1022 W. Lincoln Hwy., during routine identification checks. Geiser, 20, was listed at the No. 4 quarterback slot entering NIU's 1990 season after red-shirting...

Among the thousands of new students attending NIU next year, there will be at least 22 who will stand out, in more ways than one. They will stand out physically (the average weight of this group is 207 pounds) and NIU football coach Charlie Sadler hopes...

In a game that featured 14 blocked shots, it's the last one that will be remembered. NIU's Antwon Harmon extended his 6-7 frame, put out an outstretched arm and spiked a last-second Western Illinois shot, and in the process, spiked WIU's bid for an upset....

The helmets and the shoulder pads are in storage, the Huskie Stadium turf is covered with snow, the players go about their business without worrying about two-a-days. Yet these are the days when the future success of NIU's football team will be determined....

NIU joined a number of independent universities who met recently at Nashville, Tenn., to discuss better scheduling opportunities for their football programs and the possibility of combining to form a football-only conference. Louisiana Tech, Southwestern...