Over the last four years I have written for this paper, I have had the opportunity to come into contact with some of the best people in the world. And, unfortunately, some of the worst. So, this culminating article is a tribute to all the players and...

NIU-bound Frank Clair of Leo High School was named the Chicago Tribune/WGN-TV Athlete of the Month for March, as announced April 9. Clair led Leo to a Class-A state title on March 13. He finished with a game-high 25 points on 10-of-13 shooting in the...

Iowa freshman basketball player and Rochelle native Ben Rand will transfer to NIU next season. Rand, a 6-foot-6 shooting guard, left Iowa fearing he wouldn’t get enough playing time. He played in 19 games this season at Iowa with a career-high five...

NEW ORLEANS - The Connecticut women's basketball team completed its rendezvous with history on Tuesday night by dominating Tennessee again with a 70-61 victory that gave the Huskies their third straight NCAA title. The triumph also marked a successful...

The NIU basketball team was picked preseason No. 1 in the MAC but failed to live up to the expectations and finished second-to-last. This season was anything but lucky for NIU, but let’s for the moment assume if you have the touch of the Huskies, it...

After NIU’s best individual finish in 31 years, Ben Heizer will go down as one of the best - if not the best - wrestler in NIU history. Heizer took second on Saturday in St. Louis at the NCAA championships. The NCAA wrestling championships are equivalent...

A beautiful thing happened last Tuesday at the Convocation Center. The place was rocking: with constant noise, fans with their shirts off and chests painted. With more than 5,000 fans taunting, chanting and cheering, this was a sight to be seen and something...

Buffalo ran past NIU 90-73 for its eighth straight win in the first round of the MAC tournament March 8 in New York. Buffalo won 14 of its final 16 games and posted its first MAC tournament victory in its six years in the conference. The Bulls then fell...

NIU coach Rob Judson and the men’s basketball team have a 1 p.m. Saturday game against MAC East-leading Western Michigan before it begins the MAC tournament on Monday. With 13 teams in the MAC, the top three get byes and, if the Huskies (10-18 overall,...

NIU men’s basketball player Al Sewasciuk scored all 15 of his points in the first half to top his season high of nine points against Central Michigan on Monday night. After a pre-game ceremony that honored Sewasciuk and three other seniors, the 6-foot-4...

Spring Break is the time of year students look forward to most, besides the summer, of course. A time to cut loose, drink, do absolutely nothing and cause trouble in towns that you never again will grace with your presence. As students, we look forward...

In the final home game of their college careers, NIU basketball’s four seniors finished with an 88-58 win over Central Michigan on Monday night at the Convocation Center. As Marcus Smallwood, Perry Smith, Walter Thompson and Al Sewasciuk exited the...