assistant sports editor There are times when the old image of a coach standing in front of a chalkboard covered with X's and O's bites the dust. Take NIU football assistants Bob Jackson and Pat Ruel. They spend as much time with chalk in hand as anybody,...

Ticket prices for men's basketball, complementary football tickets and reports on the Japanese gymnastics meet and sport medicine were some of the topics discussed at Wednesday's Athletic Board meeting. NIU Associate Athletic Director Chuck Shriver presented...

While athletes have to face the end of their careers sometime, Clarence Vaughn is looking to delay the inevitable a little while longer. Vaughn finished his career at NIU last fall with 96 tackles—second-highest on the team—and now looks toward a...

A $100,000 overestimation in student athletic fee revenue for the 1987 fiscal year will force the NIU athletic department to cut its current budget by $80,000. Gary Glenn, chairman of the Athletic Board's Budget Committee, said the board wanted to reduce...

Lies are legal today. With that in mind, here are my predictions for the sports world on this day of fools and jokers. The Cubs and Sox will run away with their respective divisions and meet in the World Series. Shawon Dunston will win a Gold Glove. Gene...

During the past six weeks, as the 26 major league baseball teams have gone through the paces of spring training, the catch-phrase "undergoing a youth movement" has popped up a few times. Over at Huskie Stadium, the NIU football team has a youth movement...

Every year it seems a different sport decides to expand its playoffs by inviting more teams or lengthening "best-of" series. After the NCAA crowns its basketball champion Monday in New Orleans, we soon will be bombarded with the stretch run for the final...

In weather better suited for water polo, the NIU football team began spring practice Tuesday by diving right into its regular routine. Although it has been over four months since the Huskies ended their 1986 season with a 34-26 loss to Ohio, they wasted...

The University of Michigan is not only the home of a football powerhouse. The NIU men's tennis team came out on the short end of a 9-0 score Friday as the powerful Michigan Wolverines swept NIU in both singles and doubles play. Michigan, which upped its...

When the NCAA handed down its so-called death penalty on the Southern Methodist football program earlier this month, it was a starting gun for some recruiters to head for Texas and pick up the remains. The Mustangs are banned from competition in 1987...

The NIU men's basketball team will play one game next season at the Rockford MetroCentre, if approved by the athletic board, Athletic Director Robert Brigham said Wednesday. NIU will play Bradley on Dec. 12 in its lone MetroCentre game of the season,...

Are we having fun yet? Probably not. Sportswise, February is the most boring month of the year. The calendar says Feb. 4, and the top sports story so far this month has been about the America's Cup race in Australia. Exciting, huh? The Pro Bowl, which...