Before NIU and Akron can win their first Association of Mid-Continent Universities title, they will have to battle a Bear. The Bears of Southwest Missouri State have become the AMCU's conference power, winning the league's all-sport trophy the past three...

When Jeff Wilson's line drive was snared by Central Michigan's second baseman on May 22, 1982, the season and the NIU baseball program had come to an end. More than seven years after CMU swept the Huskies by scores of 12-0 and 13-0 in that season-ending...

Clarence Hudson, NIU associate athletic director, resigned effective June 2 to take a position with a former employer. Hudson came to NIU last July after working for four years at Ruan Transportation Management systems where he will return to work in...

Concentration and patience prevailed for the NIU women's golf team over the weekend, and the traits earned the linksters a second-place finish at the 15-team University of Indiana Invitational. Adverse weather conditions hampered the play of the entire...

If landing a promotion was Cary Groth's New Year's resolution, it sure didn't take her long to reach her goal. On Jan. 6, NIU Athletic Director Gerald O'Dell announced that Groth had been promoted to an associate athletic director. Groth 32, had been...

American sport consists of the Big Three—football, basketball and baseball. However, NIU athletics seems to be lost in the shuffle. The Huskies pride themselves on being an up-and-coming program. Great strides are being made by NIU to become recognized...

NIU will induct 12 former Huskie greats into the school's Athletic Hall of Fame Friday, Oct. 28 at the Holmes Student Center's Blackhawk Room as part of the 81st Homecoming weekend festivities. The reception begins at 6 p.m. and is followed by a 7 p.m....

This weekend the NIU men's golf team host a 54-hole NIU/Ellwood Greens Invitational at the Ellwood Greens Country Club in Genoa, Ill. While Ellwood Greens is not a true home course, the players have some familiarity with it. Eleven other teams will participate...

In the realm of sports, a place most people deem as a "man's world," one woman has entered the sacred territory. She is the commissioner of the Gateway Conference, and she is the only woman to supervise a man's sport. She is Patty Viverito. The NIU graduate...

The NIU men's golf team will swing into action this weekend coming off an eighth-place finish in the University of Minnesota Invitational last weekend. The Huskies will travel to the University of Northern Iowa to participate in the Northern Iowa Fall...

NIU men's golf coach Jack Pheanis returned from Minneapolis "pleased with a number of things." His team had just finished eighth at the 13-team University of Minnesota Invitational, and he had gotten a good look at his five qualifiers. "I like to think...

A young but experienced team can only mean a positive future for any sport. For Pam Tyska, NIU women's golf coach, she hopes that future begins now. While the third-year boss lost a top-notch golfer in Sue (Sisler) Ellett, Tyska has eight returning athletes...