Although there are two months until basketball season, misfortune already has hit the NIU men's basketball team in the form of academic ineligibility. Sophomore forward Mike Hidden has been declared ineligible for the beginning of the 1989 basketball...

Former NIU basketball player Rodney Davis returned from his tryout with the Minnesota Timberwolves (July 20-23) with little more than some added experience. The ex-Huskie guard, who tried out for the Chicago Bulls last year, failed to make the NBA expansion...

The results of NIU's three-year promotions package with Coors Light can now be seen in store windows and on counters throughout DeKalb. NIU's new Coors Light football poster, the first of several promotional items produced in conjuction with the beer...

NIU President John LaTourette Tuesday named Raymond J. Dembinski the chairman of the NIU Athletic Board. Dembinski, a professor of special education, will take over the spot beginning August 15 and will succeed James Mellard, who has served as the board's...

The possibility of NIU's gaining access to the proposed DeKalb County civic center has Athletic Director Gerald O'Dell dreaming of what might be. Although the civic center is still in its infantile stages, O'Dell said the mere chance of having a new homecourt...

NIU sports information director Mike Korcek received a "Best in the District" citation in the 1988-89 national writing contest sponsored by the College Sports Information Directors of America. Korcek won the CoSIDA District Five honors in the Historical...

Before NIU and Akron can win their first Association of Mid-Continent Universities title, they will have to battle a Bear. The Bears of Southwest Missouri State have become the AMCU's conference power, winning the league's all-sport trophy the past three...

When Jeff Wilson's line drive was snared by Central Michigan's second baseman on May 22, 1982, the season and the NIU baseball program had come to an end. More than seven years after CMU swept the Huskies by scores of 12-0 and 13-0 in that season-ending...

Clarence Hudson, NIU associate athletic director, resigned effective June 2 to take a position with a former employer. Hudson came to NIU last July after working for four years at Ruan Transportation Management systems where he will return to work in...

NIU has another basketball coach. Jim Molinari was officially named coach of the Huskies after NIU Athletic Director Gerald O'Dell and his staff decided the 11-year assistant coach from DePaul was "The Leader of The Pack." About 80 people applied for...

Jim Molinari was officially named the new NIU men's basketball coach at a press conference Friday morning. A six-week national search ended Thursday night when NIU Athletic Director Gerald O'Dell selected Molinari, DePaul's assistant basketball coach,...