When thinking of college football juggernauts of yesteryear, schools like Notre Dame, Oklahoma and the Northern Illinois State Teachers College immediately come to mind. The Northern Illinois State Teachers College? The year is 1951, and NIU is not NIU....

Repeating a championship performance is never easy. Unless you're NIU men's golf coach Jack Pheanis. Pheanis will take his three-time Mid-Continent golf champions to the Illinois State University Redbird Invitational in Normal. The 54-hole competition...

NIU men's golf coach Jack Pheanis brings a relatively inexperienced club into Monday and Tuesday's Big Ten Intercollegiate Invitational Golf Tournament at Iowa City, Iowa, to tee off the fall golf season. Gone are All-Mid-Continent golfers Mike Briggs,...

There's no doubt in the mind of veteran NIU men's golf coach Jack Pheanis about the high caliber of competition teeing up Friday and Saturday at the Oak Club of Genoa. This weekend's Fifth Annual Miller Genuine Draft Midwestern Invitational features a...

On the one hand, the NIU men's golf team finished in the upper half of the field for what has become a truly classic collegiate golf meet—the 22nd Annual Marshall University Invitational. On the other hand, the Huskies could have finished even higher....

NIU's men's golf team was expected to finish among the top squads in this weekend's 54-hole Stanford University Cardinal Intercollegiate Tournament according to veteran boss Jack Pheanis. NIU didn't meet its expectations. The Huskies were one of two Midwest...

Six former Huskies will be inducted into NIU's Hall of Fame Oct. 5 as part of the 83rd Homecoming weekend festivities, but there will be no celebrating by some former NIU male gymnasts. Allegations have surfaced that members of the men's gymnastics program...

Finishing second in the consolation flight of the Akron Firestone Classic seemed to please NIU men's golf coach Jack Pheanis. Even though the Huskies finished 20th overall, the Huskie boss had reason to grin after finishing next to last in the Marshall...

Things could have been worse for the NIU men's golf team this weekend. In the 21-team Marshall University Invitational field, the Huskies finished in the No. 20 spot—one stroke better than last-place contestant Ball State. "At least we got out of the...

Ideally, college sports may not be best exemplified by the exploits of the student-giants running around on the gridiron and hardwood courts. The dedication and balance between academics and athletics is often best illustrated by the participants in the...

Not only has NIU golfer Rick Stewart received recognition for his talents, he's made Huskie history. The NIU junior became the first Huskie to be awarded Athlete of the Week status by the Association of Mid-Continent Universities—NIU's new men's conference...

Both the men's and women's golf teams tee it up this weekend in their respective tournaments. Head coach Jack Pheanis and his men's team open the fall season with Friday through Sunday's (Sept. 15-17) Association of Mid-Continent Univerities/University...