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...

Well, nobody got hurt. Otherwise, not much good can be said of the NIU men's basketball team's 96-72 loss at Toledo Wednesday night. Just ask assistant coach Jon Mackey. "Tonight is the worst we've played all year," Mackey said. "No doubt about it." The...

Time flies. An athlete transfers to another university. Witnesses graduate or drop out ... It now appears Iowa officials will not seek to extradite John Culbertson on his warrant for allegedly shooting into an occupied car while he was at Iowa State in...

Jim Rosborough wants a victory and he wants one now. The second-year NIU men's basketball coach wants to see an end to the Huskies' current three-game losing streak when NIU travels to Toledo Wednesday at 7 p.m. "The losing nicks at you," Rosborough said....

It looked more like a rugby scrum than a victory celebration and senior co-captain Rodney Davis was on the bottom of the pile. Davis' 25-foot buzzer-beater at Drake Jan. 2 gave NIU men's basketball team its first road win since Jim Rosborough took over...

NIU freshman point guard Donald Whiteside has been declared academically ineligible for the upcoming spring semester, men's basketball coach Jim Rosborough announced Monday. "Donald is a great young man. This is a prime example of the difficult task that...

Jim Rosborough usually considers his NIU men's basketball squad a running team. Not this weekend. Sunday at 4:05 p.m., the 1-3 Huskies will be at the Rockford MetroCentre to face a Bradley team which is averaging 102.5 points through two games. Rosborough...