"Our attitude for the whole season is going to be: the next game is the most important no matter who it is." This is the mentality that NIU head coach Eric Luzzi and the men's soccer team will not give up on after starting it last season. No. 19 Portland,...
As the NIU men's and women's soccer seasons get underway, the teams will be without some familiar faces. The Northern Star's Andrew Singer and Mike Buda take center ice to see who will be the Huskies' bigger loss: Lindsey Curnock or Josh Karsten. Andrew...
Bringing in international talent has been a constant for American soccer over the past few decades to improve the game in the States. The NIU men's soccer program has a history of acting similarly and has holstered top overseas recruits, which includes...
Is ESPN going through a fad, or has it just gone certifiably insane? I really can't think of another explanation to rationally break down its coverage of the past eight months. First there was Tiger Woods, then Tim Tebow, Stephen Strasburg, LeBron James...
Excited would be an understatement on Eric Luzzi, NIU men's soccer head coach, feels about the 2010-2011 season. Luzzi, who signed a contract extension which will keep him as the Huskies head coach until 2014, declared three specific reasons why he is...
NIU forward Juan Hoyos had been working soccer summer camps all day. So when he got a text message from his coach Steve Simmons he expected a motivational talk was on the horizon. "We thought he was going to tell us to stay in touch," Hoyos said. "You...
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...
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,...
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...
It's not often the MAC produces Major League Soccer players. Most either transfer to European leagues or hang up their jerseys after college. But for one MAC soccer star, the story was different. The University of Akron's Steve Zakuani will stay in the...
NIU football wasn't the only team to announce its 2009 recruiting class Wednesday afternoon. Before NIU head football coach Jerry Kill took the podium, NIU men's soccer head coach Steve Simmons sat inside the McCareins Auditorium at the Yordon Center...
