DeKALB | Student-athlete scholarships are like a complicated game of fact or fiction. The fact is NCAA student-athletes receive full-ride scholarships. The fiction of scholarships is that full-ride doesn't cover everything one might think. NCAA members...
Forgive Chad Spann if he didn't jump for joy when told the Northern Star had named him the best Huskie of 2010-11. The former NIU running back has been a little preoccupied after going undrafted in last month's NFL Draft. Spann had interest from multiple...
Leave it to Chandler Harnish to be humble about his success on the football field.The NIU football quarterback guided his team toward a school-record 11-win season, along with appearances in the MAC Championship and the uDrove Humanitarian Bowl on his...
Give Jamal Womble the eye test, and you'll see a classic bruiser, but your notion will quickly be put to rest.Sure, the NIU running back is built like a soda machine, but his feet tell a different story."As soon as we got out there for the first day...
Give Jamal Womble the eye test, and you'll see a classic bruiser, but your notion will quickly be put to rest. Sure, the NIU running back is built like a soda machine, but his feet tell a different story. "As soon as we got out there for the first day...
DeKALB | A familiar face walked into the Yordon Center on Friday afternoon. Devon Butler spoke publicly for the first time, less than three weeks after the April 5 shooting that left him fighting for his life. The first words that came out of Butler's...
DeKALB | Dave Doeren wanted his first spring game as NIU's head football coach to be a celebration. With hundreds of fans in attendance on a beautiful day, that's exactly what the intra-squad scrimmage was. Fans and players alike welcomed Devon Butler...
Devon Butler, a linebacker on the NIU football team, spoke to the public on Friday for the first time since being shot off campus on April 5. Butler had been recovering at Kishwaukee Hospital, then at OSF Saint Anthony Medical Center in Rockford before...
Fans of the NIU football team will have their first opportunity to see the Dave Doeren-led Huskies at 2 p.m. Saturday.The annual spring game is the culmination of five weeks of practices in March and April. In his first year as head coach, Doeren says...
NIU linebacker Devon Butler will issue a statement at 3:30 p.m. today in the Yordon Center. It will be his first public appearance since he was wounded in a shooting on April 5. According to a Thursday night release from NIU Athletic Media Relations,...
Debra Boughton, director of NIU's athletic business affairs, received a puzzled look from NIU Athletic Director Jeff Compher when she handed him the athletic expense report from the football team's trip to the uDrove Humanitarian Bowl. Following losses...
Mid-American Conference Commissioner Jon Steinbrecher and University of Massachusetts Athletic Director John McCutcheon announced the addition of UMass' football program to the MAC on Wednesday afternoon. The duo held a teleconference at Gillette Stadium,...
