Tug Gillingham became the fourth player from last season’s NIU baseball team to sign with a professional contract by inking with the Windy City Thunderbolts. "I’m excited for Tug," NIU coach Ed Mathey said. "Playing pro baseball is something he always...

Whether you’re piling your life into the back of a minivan and making the move to NIU for the first time, or coming back to good old, familiar DeKalb, there has never been a better time to jump on the Huskie sports fan bandwagon than this fall. And...

Top 5 sports stories of the 2004-2005 school year ... as voted on by the Northern Star sports staff. With many big events throughout the school year, many notable stories were left off the list. Lobdell spikes kills record: Senior outside hitter Tera...

With Marshall and Kentucky leaving the MAC for Conference-USA at the end of the 2004-05 athletic season, NIU will look for two teams to place on its fall men’s soccer schedule. "It will help in not having to travel so far," NIU men’s soccer coach...

After splitting a pair of matches against MAC opponents over the weekend, NIU’s Chrissy Svetlic was named MAC Player of the Week on Tuesday. Over the past week, Svetlic won all four of her singles and doubles matches. "She’s playing rather high in...

Women’s tennis The NIU women’s tennis team comes home today for a non-conference match against DePaul at 1 p.m. at the West Campus Courts. The Huskies (5-7 overall, 1-4 MAC) broke a four-match losing streak and won their first MAC match of the year...

When he was 14 years old, Emmanuel Luvert’s soccer skills caught the eye of NIU men’s soccer coach Steve Simmons. Luvert was playing for the Oregon United Soccer Academy, and was considered by Simmons to be one of the top 36 players on the West coast....

Bernhard Hagevik and Paul Gabel of the NIU men’s soccer team were charged with delivery of alcohol to a minor and selling liquor without a license at 12:20 a.m. Sunday. NIU coach Steve Simmons said he has spoken to the players and the team is following...

After leading the NIU men’s soccer team with 18 points this year, freshman Curt Zastrow was named a Second Team Freshman All-American by College Soccer News. Zastrow helped to turn around a Huskies squad that won just three games a year ago. “What...

Despite a first-round loss in the MAC tournament, the NIU men’s soccer team received two of the three major postseason awards Saturday. The Huskies also had six All-MAC performers for the first time since joining the MAC in 1997. NIU marked nine more...

The season began with a 1-3 start. Senior captain Andy Champion of the NIU men’s soccer team said he thought it was going to be the same thing as the last three years all over again. Champion had suffered through the past three seasons, where NIU won...

For the fifth year in a row, the NIU men’s soccer team lost in the first round of the MAC tournament. NIU fell 2-1 Friday to Buffalo at the Western Michigan University Soccer Complex. The Huskies finished the season with a 12-7 mark, the fourth best...