One sport, one city, two teams. As the baseball season began on Sunday, so did the debate & who will finish better, the Cubs or White Sox? Every year about this time, fans of the two teams begin arguing about why their team will finish with the better...

After breaking a four-game losing streak Tuesday against Wisconsin-Milwaukee, NIU baseball coach Dave Schrage noticed how confident his Huskies were. The new-found confidence carried to the next game on Wednesday, and the Huskies walked away with a win...

An NIU baseball team that recently struggled with its bats has found them suddenly coming alive in the last two games. Hitting is considered contagious, and the Huskies found that out against Wisconsin-Milwaukee on Tuesday and Illinois-Chicago on Wednesday....

NIU's softball team has struggled to produce runs for most of the season, and in a doubleheader against Northwestern on Wednesday, the outcome was no different. The Big Ten opponent proved to be too much as the Huskies dropped the first game 3-0. In Game...

Huskies baseball coach Dave Schrage has noticed a difference in his team the last two games. In NIU's victory over Illinois-Chicago on Wednesday, Schrage saw the Huskies being more confident than they were in their nine previous games. They have won their...

NIU basketball coach Rob Judson might not yet know who incoming recruit Chris Lawson is, but he recently had a close encounter with the 6-foot-5-inch guard. The NIU-bound Lawson and recently named Huskie Judson both took in the action of the Chicago Public...

John and Joel Vanden Berg never expected to be opponents. But for the first time in their collegiate and high school careers, the twins went against each other in baseball action Tuesday. The Vanden Bergs were teammates for the NIU baseball team for the...

Streaming past the pitcher's feet and beyond the outstretched arms of the second baseman, NIU's Trevor Stocking advanced the game-winning run in the ninth inning Tuesday to get the Huskies out of a four-game slide with a 9-8 win over the Wisconsin-Milwaukee...

New NIU head basketball coach Rob Judson has added his first coaching assistant with the well-traveled Mike Shepherd. In Shepherd, who served this year as the Atlanta Hawks' advanced scout, Judson is happy to add someone with NBA experience on his resume....

Today's matchup between the NIU and Northwestern softball teams marks a bittersweet event for the Wildcats. For NIU coach Donna Martin, it means farewell to an old friend. Northwestern veteran coach Sharon Drysdale, the winningest in Wildcat history,...

After coming up short against Marshall and Miami University, the NIU women's tennis team won its Friday match but lost Saturday afternoon. On Friday, the Huskies won 7-0 against University of Toledo, securing a 1-2 record in the MAC, but then they lost...

NIU baseball coach Dave Schrage believes that in order for his Huskies to contend in the Mid-American Conference, they'll need to improve their game, starting with Wisconsin-Milwaukee. The Huskies (10-14 overall, 0-7 in the MAC) have been struggling recently,...