While Charlie Sadler and his football team prepare to hang up their helmets and spikes for another year, Brian Hammel and the NIU men's basketball team are warming up their high tops. After last season's misfortunes, which ended with no more than six...

Good news is on its way for NIU men's basketball coach Brian Hammel and his staff. The Chicago Sun-Times reported on Friday that the Huskies have signed guard Thomas Cook of Hillcrest High School for next season. The signing will not become official until...

With only eight players on his 1991-92 roster, NIU men's basketball head coach Brian Hammel managed to scrape up an 11-17 record and a 7-9 ledger in the Mid-Continent Conference (good enough for a sixth-place tie with Cleveland State) in his inaugural...

Last year, hope defined men's basketball at NIU. This year, security is the operative word. With a new head coach and nine players, one of whom was recruited from the residence halls, the NIU men's basketball team lacked everything it took to achieve...

Last May 6, the decision to drop the women's field hockey program in favor of a women's soccer program was made by the NIU Athletic Board. Consequently, the board thought that it would be left at that. However, a complaint was filed last week due to the...

It was a day of firsts for women's basketball and more specifically, for Jane Albright-Dieterle's NIU program. Here at the Drake Hotel on Wednesday, the women officially joined forces with the men at the Mid-Continent Conference's Basketball Media Day....

New rules regarding basketball practice have NIU's coaches trying to become more organized. Last year, in response to charges that college basketball was leaving too little time for student-athletes to study, the NCAA moved back the first practice days...

NIU's Athletic Board wasted no time getting into the swing of things at its first meeting of the 1992-93 academic year. After Ray Dembinski passed on the baton to new board chairman Gip Seaver, the members got down to business. Among the items discussed...

As reported in The Northern Star last week, Robert Collins will officially take over as NIU's new associate athletic director. Athletic Director Gerald O'Dell, after denying any future hiring of Collins last Tuesday, made the announcement Friday that...

The Northern Star has learned that former NIU assistant basketball coach Robert Collins is expected to be named the school's next associate athletic director, replacing Keith Hackett, who resigned in June to take a position at Oklahoma City University....

As the schedule winds down to its final stretch, NIU men's tennis coach Chuck Merzbacher is focusing his crew to secure the first seed in the Mid-Continent Conference Championships to be held April 24-25 at the West Campus Courts. The 8-13 Huskies have...

The NIU men's basketball version of the "Fab-Five" may soon be the "Fab-Four." Of the five Huskies recruits who have already signed letters of intent, the most heralded is Proviso East's Jamal Robinson. Robinson recently led his team to the state class...