The NIU men's basketball team knocked a stubborn monkey off its back Saturday. But head coach Jim Rosborough, who saw his team end a 10-game losing streak, knows the fans will not be satisfied with one in a row. The second-year NIU coach would like to...

NIU's soccer team took to the indoor turf this past weekend as coach Willy Roy began looking forward to next season. Roy's boys won the 16-team tournament at Soccer Enterprises, Inc. in Palatine that marked the start of a six-week spring session, during...

If the NIU men's basketball team is to beat Central Connecticut State Saturday, the Huskies will have to do something they could not do in the last meeting with the Blue Devils—stop Brian Devlin. The 4-16 Huskies will attempt to snap their 10-game slide...

At Tuesday's Huskie Club Luncheon, NIU men's basketball coach Jim Rosborough told the gathering he once heard "basketball is a great game if you're winning." But after not winning a game for over a month, Rosborough maintains a good outlook for the Huskies....

Should Jim Rosborough start soliciting bodyguards? At Tuesday's Huskie Club Luncheon, the men's basketball boss told the gathering of a conversation he had with a family friend and former associate at Iowa. "He called this morning and asked if the lynch...

The NIU men's basketball team seems to be gaining momentum—they're just going in the wrong direction. The Huskies, now 4-15, dropped their ninth game in a row with an 81-60 loss to the Bearcats of Cincinnati Monday night. The nine-game skid is the second...

This is the last of a three-part series profiling new NIU Athletic Director Gerald O'Dell. This segment focuses on the merger between men's and women's athletics. When the external and internal review comittees filed their reports on the NIU athletic...

The NIU Athletic Board met for the first time this semester and for the first time with new athletic director Gerald O'Dell Wednesday. O'Dell had a chance to introduce Mary Mihelich, NIU's new promotion and marketing director, to the board also. When...

Western Michigan kicked sand in the faces of the NIU men's basketball team as the Broncos outfought the Huskies' 84-79 on "Beach Night" Monday in Kalamazoo. The summer-like atmosphere created by the 1,885 WMU fans worked in the Broncos' favor early as...

The NIU basketball team outplayed Akron for 34 minutes Saturday, but the six minutes the Huskies didn't control proved to be fatal as the Zips held on for a 75-68 win at Chick Evans Field House. Shawn Roberts' layup with 16:37 left in the game started...

Losing streaks are never any fun and NIU's men's basketball team is struggling through a particularly nasty one—make that two. The Huskies have lost five straight overall and four in a row to the Western Michigan Broncos. NIU will try to end both skids...

Jim Rosborough thinks Chick Evans Field House could cure the NIU basketball team's four-game losing skid Saturday. On the other hand, he could think of easier teams to break the streak against. Hot off a 55-point win Wednesday night, the Akron Zips invade...