All Mike Brown wants in his last home game is a victory. The senior guard said playing his last game at Chick Evans Field House hasn't hit home yet. "All I want to do is win it," he said. "It is kind of important because it would be a good way to end...

Sean Ezell loves to trash talk, but what separates him from the would—be trash talkers is the fact that he can support his words. "I'm from Gary, Ind., so we have to back it up with our game," said the 6—foot—2—inch outspoken guard. "It doesn't...

Bloomfield, a small rural town in Southern Indiana, has one of everything: one fast food restaurant, one post office and one public school. It also has one basketball star. Lindsay Secrest, a 6-foot sharpshooting swing player from Bloomfield High School,...

The 2001 gymnastics season has been a struggle for NIU. With a 2-7 overall record and a 0-4 record in the Mid-American Conference, the Huskies have had a difficult time pulling out victories. Last Friday, the Huskies managed to score more than 190 but...

Rushing for 1,000 yards in the Mid-American Conference is tough. Entertaining grade school children for two hours may be even tougher. Michael Turner and other members of the NIU football team were thrown that challenge, among others, when they participated...

NIU men's basketball interim coach Andy Greer felt relieved that his Huskies finally snapped a nine-game losing streak. The Huskies defeated Eastern Michigan 62-57, putting them at 5-20 for the season and 4-12 in the Mid-American Conference. "It feels...

Dave Schrage said if the NIU baseball team was going to win games this season, it would be because the infield played great defense. In the first series of the season, the Huskie defense was to the coach's liking as NIU swept Tennessee-Martin in the three-game...

Everything had fallen into place for the NIU women's basketball team to earn a first-round bye in the Mid-American Conference tournament. But instead of seizing the moment, the Huskies suffered perhaps their most painful loss of the season, faltering...

The end of the inaugural indoor track season for the NIU women's track squad ended in disappointing fashion Saturday as the team finished dead last at the Mid-American Conference indoor track and field championships. The Huskies finished at the bottom...

Placing seventh in this weekend's Mid-American Conference championships, the NIU women's swimming and diving team only managed to edge out two other MAC schools. But while the Huskies didn't fair well as a team, some individual highlights came from the...

On a cold December night, a small crowd of 800 people watched the NIU women's basketball team fall 62-50 to Santa Clara. The Huskies tallied a franchise-worst 12 points in the first half and dropped to a 2-8 record. A season that once held high expectations...

Leon Rodgers' eclipsing the career 1,000-point mark wasn't enough to lift the NIU men's basketball team over Marshall, as the Huskies fell 81-65 Thursday night against the Thundering Herd in Huntington, W.Va. Tallying 16 points, the 6-foot-6-inch junior...