Coaches go out to sign up recruits, players put their name on the dotted line and both sides get ready to spend four to five years together. It's National Letter of Intent Day, football style. The first day high school football players can commit formally...

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. (AP)—John Mackovic is an honest football coach who should be able to dazzle Illinois fans with his pro-style passing attack and charm them with his personality, observers say. "He is excellent with quarterbacks and he pretty well handled...

NIU football player Thomas Klein, 21, might lose his football scholarship after being arrested for battery. DeKalb Police reported the arrest Saturday night after Student Association Sen. Joe Annunzio said Klein "punched him in the face several times"...

This is the last of a three-part series profiling new NIU Athletic Director Gerald O'Dell. This segment focuses on the merger between men's and women's athletics. When the external and internal review comittees filed their reports on the NIU athletic...

If Jane Albright could have one post-Christmas wish, it might be to have a season of games as intense as Wednesday night's first half. NIU ran out to a 49-45 lead at halftime against DePaul, but the Huskies could not keep their grip in the second half...

The NIU Athletic Board met for the first time this semester and for the first time with new athletic director Gerald O'Dell Wednesday. O'Dell had a chance to introduce Mary Mihelich, NIU's new promotion and marketing director, to the board also. When...

Editor's note: This is the first of a three-part series profiling new NIU Athletic Director Gerald O'Dell. Trust, caring and a commitment to excellence. That's what new NIU Athletic Director Gerald O'Dell believes in, and that's how he plans to help the...

Clarence Vaughn and his Washington Redskin teammates enter Super Bowl XXII as 3/u-point underdogs to the Denver Broncos. However, Vaughn should be used to this situation by now, as he has battled the odds himself to make it in the National Football League....

Two former NIU football stars have made names for themselves in the NFL. Todd Peat, who was a dominant member of NIU's offensive line for four years, finished his first season with the St. Louis Cardinals by making Pro Football Weekly's All-Rookie team....

Another DeKalb High School kicker might wear the cardinal and black of NIU in 1988. Like former Barb star Vince Scott before him, all-conference place-kicker Jay Barresi could take the short hike between DeKalb campuses according to DHS coach Tim Holt....

The NIU women's basketball team will spend some time in Las Vegas next December. Thanks to a shaky approval of the 1988-89 schedule by the NIU Athletic Board Wednesday, Coach Jane Albright and her squad will play Dec. 9-10 in the Nevada-Las Vegas Classic....

Not only has Ted Karamanos earned the respect of opposing lineman but also of the Associated Press. The senior offesive guard who knocked 34 defenders on their backs in what are called domination blocks this past season, made the wire service's Honorable...