NIU's basketball contract with the Rockford Metrocentre terminates June 30, 1988. The big question is whether or not NIU renew its contract with the MetroCentre after this year's basketball season. The actual five-year agreement was made between NIU and...

Northwestern interim Athletic Director Ken Kraft said Monday he has applied for NIU's permanent directorship. Kraft's statement comes on the heels of the search committee's first meeting Friday, where committee members began to set up shop and screen...

With only little over a month until full academic life resumes, the NIU men's basketball team's roster is molding into its final shape. Final results have come in from the most recent ACT exam, and the incoming Huskies will trudge into DeKalb. Everyone...

More than a year after being fired as the NIU men's basketball coach, John McDougal, 63, returns to college hoops and to the same conference he coached in for 10 years—the Mid-American Conference. McDougal accepted Western Michigan Coach Vernon Payne's...

NIU Associate Athletic Director Chuck Shriver, citing career opportunity and family priorities, will leave his post June 30 for a front-office position with the Chicago Sting. Shriver's duties will be divided among members of the athletic department until...

After facing Hurricanes on the athletic field, NIU men's athletics also had to battle unchartered waters on its new athletic ship. NIU had its baptism in independent waters this year after leaving its 13-year affiliation with the Mid-American Conference,...

After reducing projected profits for Fiscal Year 1988 by $35,000, the budget committee of the Athletic Board voted Wednesday to allow the athletic department to cut its budget during the fiscal year instead of before the budget is presented to the board...

Earlier this month, NIU men's basketball coach Jim Rosborough handed out awards to his players, and now it is NIU football coach Jerry Pettibone's turn. Rosborough's occasion was the basketball banquet, but Pettibone's is the end of spring practice. The...

When NIU athletic directors Robert Brigham and Susie Pembroke-Jones brought their teams' athletic schedules for next year to the Athletic Board Wednesday, board members did more than just look at the Huskies' opponents. Part of the discussion revolved...

NIU men's basketball coach Jim Rosborough completed the task of strengthening the Huskie backcourt Monday with the signing of Chicago prep guards Stacy Arrington and Donald Whiteside to national letters of intent. Arrington, a 6-foot 2-inch, 172-pound...

NIU men's basketball coach Jim Rosborough's recruiting show might have hit full throttle with the signing of four players last November, but the tour has picked up a second head of steam this spring. osborough will add two more high school players to...

Already 26 dual meets into its season, the NIU men's tennis team is set to play where it has not played all year—home. The Huskies will play three teams this weekend at the Gullickson Tennis Courts by Anderson Hall. NIU, 16-10, will open Saturday at...