NIU football schedules Wake Forest, Ohio State: The NIU football team recently announced that they've set up a couple of attractive dates. The Huskies will play Wake Forest in 2014, completing a three game agreement with the school. NIU played the Demon...
DeKALB | Victor E. Huskie is getting a makeover for the 2010 season. After eight years with his current look, Victor is hitting the weights and becoming what Ryan Harris, assistant director of sales at NIU, describes as, "more fierce, more muscular, yet...
Can you feel it, NIU? Temperatures are up, the sun is out and I can almost taste the brats. Summer is nearly here. The flip side is that another summer brings the end of another year of NIU sports and the inevitable evaluations of how the school's programs...
Bob Brigham took over as NIU's athletic director in 1968. He achieved his first major accomplishment in 1969 by getting the Huskie football program into NCAA Division I-A. Brigham donned the cardinal and black for 50 years as a student-athlete, assistant...
Funeral services for NIU Hall of Famer and former basketball standout Robert (Bob) L. Patterson, a 6-foot-10-inch, 220-pound back-up center on the storied 21-4 Huskie quintet that upset No. 5 Indiana and cracked the nation's Top 20 in 1971-72 were scheduled...
Sometimes we forget the less visible people in an athletic department. Even though they aren't all over the television, they still mean a lot to the department's success. On March 20, NIU Athletic Director Jeff Compher named Christian Spears senior associate...
Rome wasn't built in a day - and neither will the NIU athletic program under the direction of Jeff Compher, athletic director and associate vice president. Instead of using swords and warriors to create his empire, however, Compher and his staff will...
Dr. Jon Steinbrecher has only been MAC commissioner for two days. Yesterday in just his second day on the job, Steinbrecher had his first teleconference. Steinbrecher, who previously served as commissioner of the Ohio Valley Conference, answered questions...
Kirk Mango remembers the feeling like it was yesterday. He was standing in the middle of the Chick Evans Field House. The old basketball arena was crowded. Fans spilled out of the bleachers onto the floor. Those who showed up on time didn't have a seat,...
Dr. Jon A. Steinbrecher, with 15 years experience as a Division I commissioner, was appointed commissioner of the Mid-American Conference today by the league presidents at a meeting in Indianapolis, following an extensive national search. Dr. Steinbrecher...
Is there any day in college sports more overlooked than Selection Monday? The building of the women's basketball bracket is casually swept under the rug every year as armchair pundits gather at the watercooler to debate why this is the year that a mid-major...
Men's and women's soccer teams play on the same pitch, tennis plays on the same court and basketball on the same slab of hardwood. Call me crazy, but if there were a professional women's football league - here's looking to you, Vince McMahon -I'm pretty...
