A diverse portfolio is a term most often connected to the stock market. It could also describe the trio of freshmen new to the NIU women's basketball team this season. Five-foot-eight Rachel Sillar is the floor general of the group, 5-foot-10 Alyssa Verdegan...

NIU wrestling coach Dave Grant says this weekend's Michigan State Open will be more challenging than last week's Stevens Point Open. Six Big Ten teams will be competing in the tournament, including host school Michigan State, Michigan, Ohio State and...

With the Mid-American Conference title between NIU and Ball State, it's down to winning a pair of road games to keep the tournament in DeKalb. Volleyball coach Todd Kress knows that this weekend, after playing for nearly a month at home, his team will...

Go ahead. Admit it. You never thought you would see the day when NIU would be playing for a share of the Mid-American Conference Championship in football. Some of you even doubted your children would ever see the day the Huskies would rise to the MAC's...

Rarely is a person too big to play the game of football, but when it came time to play in junior high, Huskie linebacker Nick Duffy fit that description. "I was too big to play football," Duffy said of his junior high years. "I weighed too much to play."...

NIU hockey club coach Bill Thorn knows this weekend's game against Bradley is going to be a physical one. "(Bradley is) a physical team," Thorn said. "Last time we played it took us a while to get going. This time we need to come out ready to go." The...

The signing period for NCAA basketball started yesterday, as NIU officially signed its three high school players who earlier gave verbal commitments. Inking United Township's James Hughes, Pekin's Todd Peterson and Curie's Rome Sanders, first year NIU...

After traveling through two times zones for the last meet, a trip to Wisconsin-Green Bay today will be a welcome sight for the NIU women's swim team. The women will be rejoined this week by the men after the teams went separate ways last week. Last weekend,...

He is nicknamed Boogie for his quick feet on the dance floor, but it's his fast feet on the football field that are getting the job done for Lionel Hickenbottom. "We started calling him Boogie last year because he's a good dancer," said good friend and...

During the post game press conference, head coach Rob Judson said all of his players were freshmen in his new offensive system. Senior Leon Rogers looked anything but young in the Huskies' 78-76 overtime win over Marathon Oil on Monday night. Rogers poured...

Downing Eastern Michigan on Friday during Senior Night at Chick Evans Field House, the NIU volleyball team advanced its win streak to 17 games. Losing 3-1 to the Eagles Sept. 19 earlier this season, NIU regrouped to sweep the match. "Eastern Michigan...

Despite being Senior Night at Chick Evans Field House, the three seniors on the NIU volleyball team acted like it wasn't their last home game. Carrie Blankenship, Sara Lein and Jen Scarpino played their last regular season home game at the Field House,...