Top-caliber athletes dot the lineups of several NIU teams. Here are just a few to look for this season. Cathy Holmes is a strong catalyst for the NIU volleyball team. The senior helped lead her squad last season to a 19-16 overall finish and a second-place...

NIU Sports Information Director Mike Korcek won three national awards earlier this week in the 1987-88 writing and publications contests sponsored by the College Sports Information Directors of America. Korcek received "Best in the District" honors in...

The NIU athletic department has "indicated some interest" in becoming affiliated with Association of Mid-Continent Universities conference, league commissioner F.L. Ferzacca said Tuesday. Ferzacca said he spoke with NIU Athletic Director Gerald O'Dell...

At Tuesday's Huskie Club Luncheon, NIU men's basketball coach Jim Rosborough evaluated his team's performance this season and projected optimism about the future. "The foundation is laid," said Rosborough, who indicated this season might have built the...

Editor's note: This is the last of a four-part series examining the balancing act athletes must perform between their academic and athletic demands. In August of 1986, Proposition 48 went into effect, putting requirements on which high school athletes...

College athletes must perform in their sport and in the classroom, but sometimes they have the added pressure of battling the "dumb jock" stereotype in the eyes of some faculty. Elliot Lessen, an associate professor of Learning, Development and Special...

Maybe NIU men's basketball coach Jim Rosborough was on to something when he said this past season could be divided into thirds. Looking back at the parts might be less painful than remembering the whole. Phase 1 in this scenario consisted of the Huskies'...

NIU Night brought 2,363 Huskie fans to the last men's basketball game of the season Monday night at Chick Evans Field House, where four senior players were recognized, a $200 raffle prize was issued and a 300-man card section cheered for the team. Student...

NIU and other major college institutions have made academic rules to protect the student/athlete, but several NIU coaches say the rules could be improved. The current NIU grade point average rule states athletes must have a 1.70 prior to their second,...

Beyond the playing field Coach Jim Rosborough and his men's basketball staff have a word they like to throw around: positive. They like to use it when they talk to the media. It's used to try and have people see the program through rose-colored glasses....

It would be an understatement to say the odds are against the NIU men's basketball team tonight. The 6-18 Huskies will take the court against the 15-7 Kansas State Wildcats tonight at 7:35. NIU is coming off a 92-84 road loss to SIU while KSU, which has...

Senior guards Rodney Davis and Randy Norman stole the show in the NIU men's basketball team's win over Central Florida Tuesday. The all-Aurora backourt will have to be on the top of its game again Saturday at 2 p.m. when NIU visits Southern Illinois....