Until Bobby Smith's name is cleared, the sophomore guard "is separated" from the NIU men's basketball team, coach Jim Molinari said Tuesday. Smith, who was one of two NIU students arrested in connection with an Oct. 17 drug-related robbery, has yet to...

The 1989-90 men's basketball team officially opened practice on Monday with a new outlook and a new head coach. Ex-Depaul assistant Jim Molinari took over the head coaching duties from Jim Rosborough last May and now begins his reign as head Huskie cager....

Former Men's Athletic Director Robert Brigham heads a list of seven to be inducted into the NIU Athletic Hall of Fame on Oct. 6. Brigham, who now serves as special assistant to the president for intercollegiate athletics, lettered in football three times...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...