In Monday's thrashing of the NIU basketball team, Akron was hotter than viewers thoughts the new XFL cheerleaders' were. Totaling 103 points with a second-half performance that saw Akron shoot 82 percent from the 3-point line, Dan Hipsher's ball club...

Coach Andy Greer said his team played the best 32 minutes of the season before the NIU men's basketball team lost a 16-point lead in an 81-74 overtime loss to Central Michigan on Saturday. Unfortunately for NIU, it takes 40, or in this case, 45, minutes...

Women's tennis players opened their spring season with a sluggish start Saturday against the University of Illinois-Chicago. UIC capitalized by taking the team doubles point and four singles victories to defeat the Huskies 5-2. Despite the results, the...

The NIU men's tennis squad finally found a light at the end of the tunnel. After suffering their fourth straight loss to a Big Ten opponent against Ohio State on Saturday, the Huskies picked up a victory against West Virginia Sunday. The Ohio State match...

E.C. Hill's return to Chick Evans Field House on Saturday night marked a bittersweet evening for NIU. The former Huskie standout received a standing ovation and sat on the Huskies' bench, watching NIU fall 57-50 to Eastern Michigan. The NIU athletic department...

Sophomore Kim Boeding scored 8 points and pulled down 4 rebounds in the Huskies loss. On a Saturday night that had all the makings of a perfect evening for the NIU women's basketball team, it suffered one of its toughest losses against Eastern Michigan....

The fall semester produced 85 student athletes with grade-point averages above 3.5 — each winning recognition from a phone-service provider. Each year, student athletes from select schools are honored by Verizon Telecommunications for their academic...

Beginning tonight, the NIU wrestling team will face its toughest weekend before the Mid-American Conference championships in March. The Huskies take on Central Michigan University tonight and the University of Northern Iowa on Sunday. Both are ranked...

For Saturday's game, the NIU basketball team is grateful to be back home, but will have its hands full against a Central Michigan team on a roll. With the Huskies 0-13 on the road this year, they'll play a short homestand of three games starting at 1...

Leshon Johnson has taken on cancer, played in one of the toughest divisions in all of sports and run over opponents at NIU. After all that, the XFL's no-fair-catch rule should be no problem. "It's going to make it very interesting," said the Chicago Enforcers...

When a team starts measuring its ability by its margin of victory, it must be good. Two weeks ago the NIU hockey team defeated Southern Illinois by 5. Coach Bill Thorn said that wasn't nearly good enough. So when the Huskies faced SIU again last Saturday...

Having won four in a row and eight of its last 10 games, the NIU women's basketball team is now just one win away from the .500 mark. The Huskies will try to extend their win streak to five games when Eastern Michigan comes to Chick Evans Field House...