Well, it would appear that NIU will remain in the Mid-Continent Conference after all. According to Star sources, the presidents of Missouri Valley Conference voted to extend an invitation to the University of Evansville while voting down NIU's bid. That...

NIU's short tenure in the Mid-Continent Conference may soon be severed. The Missouri Valley Conference is deciding whether or not to expand upon their current 10 team enrollment to include several new schools with NIU possibly being one of them. Six MVC...

NIU sports could be following in the footsteps of the football team, but in a different direction. The football team has plans to go ‘big' time after entering the Big West, and believes it will help the future of NIU football. Yesterday, representatives...

Pete Peltzer, former NIU assistant football aide, died last week after more than two and a half years in a coma. Peltzer, 42, died Wednesday at the Meadowbrook Manor Nursing home in Topeka, Kan. Peltzer had suffered a major coronary on Jan. 1991, which...

Time and time again, people stereotype sports players as people whose most complicated thoughts are what numbers match what plays. Many times in the past, the game was more important than education. Therefore, coaches would assist players one way or another...

"Character is the direct result of mental attitude. I believe that character is higher than the intellect. I believe that leadership is in sacrifice, in self-denial, in humility and in the perfectly disciplined will. This is the distinction between great...

Ah, home sweet home. For most of NIU's athletic teams, home is where the heart is—or at least the victories. The men's basketball team went 12-2, the women's basketball team went a record 16-0, and the men's tennis team holds a perfect 4-0 ledger amidst...

The Western Illinois Leathernecks fell victim to fate last night bowing to the NIU men's basketball team 74-66. The victory puts WIU in the Huskie record book as the 300th opponent to fall to an NIU men's team in Chick Evans Fieldhouse. Chick Evans has...

Last November's "Super Tuesday" carried Bill Clinton all the way to the top, as in the White house. Last Tuesday's NIU upset of then-No. 21 De Paul carried the Huskies all the way to the top, as in this week's Associated Press' Top 25 poll at No. 24....

One of the most heated rivals in all of Mid-Continent Conference basketball is coming to take on the NIU men's basketball team at Chick Evans Field House Saturday at 2 p.m. The Fighting Phoenix of Wisconsin-Green Bay (5-6, 1-2) are in search of their...

It's wait until next year for the women to get their fair shake in intercollegiate athletics. With gender equity promised to be the talk of the 1994 NCAA Convention, this year's gathering of university presidents and athletic directors didn't provide...

Tough jobs are designed to test the ambitious. But does achieving that yearn of what was initially desired necessarily fulfill the need? The patience needed to perform the duties of these guys clearly nullifies the aforementioned and immediately categorizes...