After four years as an NIU assistant football coach, Ted Huber will spend his last day on the Huskie Stadium turf Saturday. The 45-year-old Huber will move to Warsaw, Ind., in late May where he will take a head coaching and physical education teaching...

Like every other major American university, the rites of spring at NIU include discussion of baseball. Of course, since there is no baseball team at NIU, the talk generally raises questions like, "Why did baseball leave?" and "When will baseball return?"...

Members of the NIU Athletic Board sounded off Wednesday about what they see as disregard within the administration for the board's advisory capacity. Citing past examples of committee action on athletic department matters without Athletic Board participation,...

Friday afternoon started typically, except this time the clan from The Northern Star was getting set for softball instead of the weekly football game. We had nine people at the field behind Gabel Hall, enough to have batting and fielding practice, but...

The familiar sound of popping pads filled the air around Huskie Stadium Monday as Jerry Pettibone's football squad opened spring practice. The Huskies, who finished last season with a 5-5-1 record, will practice four times a week until April 23, when...

Editor's note: This is the last of a four-part series examining the balancing act athletes must perform between their academic and athletic demands. In August of 1986, Proposition 48 went into effect, putting requirements on which high school athletes...

College athletes must perform in their sport and in the classroom, but sometimes they have the added pressure of battling the "dumb jock" stereotype in the eyes of some faculty. Elliot Lessen, an associate professor of Learning, Development and Special...

Beyond the playing field Poor Andre Dawson. The headlines Monday stated he lost his arbitration case, meaning the Chicago Tribune saved $150,000. So Dawson will have to settle for only a 370-percent pay increase. Too bad. That extra dough would have come...

Beyond the playing field Sports moves into the so-called "real world" of journalism. The news pages of The Northern Star have been flooded with sports-related stories lately, and I'm not talking about athletes showing up on the police blotter. In the...

The NIU Huskie Club will be seeking $130,000 in contributions for support of school athletics when it kicks off its 1988-89 fund-raising drive next month. The new funds will help in alleviating the club's $4,500 debt, NIU Huskie Club President Jim Braun...

A mailman braves all sorts of inclement weather. A Canadian Mountie always gets his man. The NIU football staff had to play both roles Wednesday to sign 21 freshmen to National Letters of Intent. In Nebraska, defensive coordinator Tim McGuire had a car...

For NIU freshman Donnell Thomas, "D-Train" isn't just a nickname, it's an image he portrays on the basketball court. As NIU's latest cage star, the 6-foot-4 freshman prides himself on playing the game with an intense, physical approach. The well-built...