Jenny Bowman is part of a team that set its place in NIU history with a MAC title and a new school record for consecutive wins. However, NIU wouldn't have accomplished any of those feats without Bowman setting up the NIU offense every play. Bowman has...

NIU wrestling coach Dave Grant says his wrestlers are looking forward to wrestling at home this Sunday against Eastern Michigan and Buffalo after spending the first two weeks on the road. In addition to being the Huskies' home opener, it also will be...

NIU football players Thomas Hammock, P.J. Fleck and Jason Frank recently were named to the 2001 Verizon-CoSIDA Academic All-American Football Team. The District V team encompasses Illinois, Indiana, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Ontario and Manitoba. To qualify...

Head football coach Joe Novak knows the significance of the Huskies' final home game this Saturday. "There is certainly a lot more on the line for this game," Novak said. "Winning the West would be another step for our program." If the Huskies win Saturday,...

What more can be said about the dream season the NIU football team completed Saturday with a 41-17 win over Ohio and a trip to the California Bowl Dec. 17, in Fresno, Calif.? Domination was the name of the game for the Huskies. They ran the football almost...

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...

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...

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."...