Sports Reporter While the NIU football program celebrated its first winning season in a decade, it lost a member of the Huskie football family last month. Former NIU Hall of Fame player Bob Fowlie, 74, died in Carrollton, Ga. As a two-sport athlete for...

NIU's men's tennis coach Tim Madden was looking for improvement going into South Bend, Indiana this past weekend. Madden saw more than improvement; he was also very impressed by the Huskies' showing at the ITA/Rolex Region IV Midwest Championships. Although...

NIU's men's tennis team is facing the end of their fall schedule, and coach Tim Madden still has questions he wants answered. He'll be looking for those answers as the Huskies participate in the Indiana University Midwest Regional Classic today through...

A former NIU head tennis coach, Carl Neufeld, was named head men's tennis coach at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas. "It was a tough decision but we believe we found the right man for the job," said SMU Director of Athletics Forrest Gregg....

Ah, home sweet home. For most of NIU's athletic teams, home is where the heart is—or at least the victories. The men's basketball team went 12-2, the women's basketball team went a record 16-0, and the men's tennis team holds a perfect 4-0 ledger amidst...

The Big Ten Conference. Life would be easier for the NIU men's tennis team if it did not exist. In their only fall match, the Huskies fell to the Wildcats of Northwestern, and, this weekend not much was different, except for the opponents, as NIU fell...

The NIU men's tennis team has won two Mid-Continent Conference Championships in as many years and are looking to grasp a third. Their quest continues tomorrow at the Campus Recreation Center when the Huskies take on Eastern Michigan University at 8:00...

Welcome, oh welcome. Via Michigan by way of Wisconsin. After a couple of stints helping the Big 10, the newest addition of NIU's athletic staff makes his home in the Mid-Continent Conference. He is 26-year-old Tim Madden. He is a graduate of the University...

NIU's outgoing men's tennis coach Chuck Merzbacher hopes the team gives him a going-away present this weekend against Northwestern University. "Time to send me off with a bang," said Merzbacher, who told The Northern Star Tuesday that he will leave NIU...

He has coached the NIU men's tennis team to two straight Mid-Continent Conference championships, and now he is moving on to bigger and better things. NIU men's tennis coach Chuck Merzbacher told The Northern Star Tuesday that he will resign from his position...

Some of NIU's men's tennis lesser-lights get a chance to shine this Friday and Saturday at the Mid-Continent Conference Individual Fall Classic at Eastern Illinois University in Charleston. "The fall season is really a time to gain experience," NIU coach...

Three members of NIU's men's tennis team will be looking to conquer the country this weekend, while the rest of the team will be at NIU playing for fun. Marty Engel, Dustin Dobrin and Andy Caldwell travel to Austin, Texas this weekend to compete in the...