Here's a life lesson to learn: Life isn't fair, and you don't always get what you want. So the next time you don't get an A on your paper, stop whining. Instead, do something about it. Spend more time researching, develop your thesis, and actually proofread...

DeKALB | NIU men's basketball head coach Rob Judson labeled Saturday's game against Kent State correctly when he called it "a tale of two halves." The Huskies kept the first half close with four points being the largest margin held by either team. NIU...

DeKALB | Their graduations may be long past, but some of NIU's all-time greats returned to school this past weekend. In the seventh annual NIU men's alumni basketball game Saturday at the Convocation Center, the Black team edged the Cardinal team 97-94....

DeKALB | NIU men's basketball coach Rob Judson knows exactly where his team is at this point of the season. "This is a tough stretch," Judson said of his team's five straight losses, in the midst of a one-of-15 stretch for the Huskies. "It's very easy...

DeKALB | Some of NIU's past best and brightest are suiting up again. Saturday at the Convocation Center, NIU men's basketball alumni from the past several decades will take the floor 11 a.m. for the seventh annual alumni game. The game is open to anyone...

DeKALB | Remember the little old psychiatrist from the movie "The Natural?" Hired to cure the fictional Knights from a prolonged losing skid, the hunchbacked gray haired man in a fedora would tersely lecture Roy Hobbs and Co. that "losing is a disease."...

Do something everyday that scares you. Ever since that phrase was given as life-altering advice, it's become an unofficial calling card. On an abnormally warm early January night in the newly minted year of 2007, a friend and I sat down at a local watering...

In the story of the 2006-07 NIU men's basketball season, turnovers are emerging as a main story line. The Huskies (4-13, 1-4) added to that story line in Sunday's loss to Toledo (9-8, 5-0), when the Rockets scored 38 points off NIU's season-high 33 turnovers...

DeKALB | Two teams, two losing streaks. Something has to give. Ball State (4-12, 0-3), currently on a six-game skid, will host the NIU men's basketball team (4-11, 1-2) at 6 p.m. tonight. The Huskies enter having lost 11 of their last 12 games. BSU has...

The new ‘big name' players Garrett Wolfe, Doug Free, Kate McCullagh and Stephanie Raymond. Gone, gone, gone and soon to be gone. With some of NIU's biggest names graduating after this year, it's time to look at who will be stealing headlines in 2007....

Grimes wins weight class at Midlands There couldn't have been a better ending to 2006 for the NIU wrestling team. Mike Grimes captured NIU's first ever individual title at the Midland Championships Dec. 30 in Evanston by beating Jake Patacsil of Purdue...

Nine semesters full of experiences and growth that forever changed this writer have ended. But whether the time frame it took me to finally move on from NIU is sad or not, I have yet to decide. For those of you who have been at NIU for a few years, I...