NIU's club hockey team got what will most likely turn out to be its easiest conference win of the season on Friday. About two hours before the Huskies' game against the University of Iowa, the Hawkeyes called to say they wouldn't be able to make it because...

Experience proved to be important this weekend as the NIU swim teams took all the positives from a tough loss last week to Wisconsin and applied them to three victories at Western Illinois. The NIU men's side dominated the pool, beating Northern Iowa...

Chris Finlen knows the NIU football team took a big step in the right direction Saturday. With NIU's 20-12 victory over Western Michigan Saturday, Finlen and the Huskies snapped an 11-game losing streak against the big three teams in the Mid-American...

Splitting its games over the weekend, the NIU women's soccer team has won two of its last three games, which gives them their best mark in a three game stretch this year. On Friday, the Huskies (3-10-1, 3-7 in the Mid-American Conference) lost 2-0 to...

Joe Novak could not believe his ears Saturday when he found out Ball State defeated the Mid-American Conference West Division leader Toledo. NIU athletics director Cary Groth stopped the press conference to let everyone know the Cardinals pulled off the...

Nothing personal, but Tenisha Wilkins wanted to get out to quick starts for the NIU volleyball team in this weekend's matches. Or. . . was it personal? The 5'9" junior from Chicago Simeon High School jumped out of the blocks for the Huskies in their first...

After playing a sluggish match Friday, the NIU volleyball team came out Saturday and dominated one of the conference's better teams. Toledo, 12-7, was swept by the Huskies. Despite the scores of 30-24, 30-21, 30-21, NIU played with intense emotion and...

The NIU women's soccer team and coach Frank Horvat look to win their second straight game this weekend after upsetting Western Michigan 4-1 last Friday. "I think we should take any game as it's the hardest game and the most important game," Denise Papke...

NIU's club hockey team will play its first game in three weeks this weekend, all the while one point is being pounded into the player's heads. "We need to play for 60 minutes." Those were the words of Coach Bill Thorn, following the Huskies (0-1-1) first...

Facing stiff competition in the first meet of the year sometimes can be overwhelming. This was not the case for the NIU swim team when it faced Wisconsin last Friday. The Huskies battled with one of the Big 10's best all throughout the night before eventually...

Vince Lombardi described it best when he said winning isn't everything, it's the only thing. So far this fall season NIU's sports teams haven't had much success fulfilling that statement. Oh, wait a minute. We do have one team on a roll. Yep, the volleyball...

Jill Heikkila, substitute midfielder for the women's soccer team, will miss the remainder of the season because of a torn anterior cruciate ligament and possible cartilage damage in her left knee. Heikkila suffered the injury Sept. 30 in the team's 2-1...