Assistant Sports Editor The NIU men's basketball team continued to struggle during the winter break, losing five out of six games. Interim head coach Andy Greer got his first win as a Huskie coach after NIU defeated Buffalo 64-49 Jan. 6. The Huskies face...

Sports Reporter While the NIU football program celebrated its first winning season in a decade, it lost a member of the Huskie football family last month. Former NIU Hall of Fame player Bob Fowlie, 74, died in Carrollton, Ga. As a two-sport athlete for...

Assistant Sports Editor Iowa State associate head coach Terry Carroll thinks he could be a good addition to the NIU men's basketball program. Carroll called associate athletics director Rob Collins about the opening for the coaching job and thought his...

Cameron Saulsby's football career is still going strong. The NIU senior linebacker returned to Orlando to play in front of his hometown and an ESPN2-televised audience in the 2001 Rotary Gridiron Classic. The game pit an all-star squad for Saulsby's home...

Sports Reporter While many students were home working for holiday cash, the young NIU wrestling team gained some much-needed experience. The team's first test was just after Christmas at the Midlands Wrestling Championships on Dec. 29 and 30. Captains...

Pens scribble on reporters' pads. Motor-driven cameras click. Battery-operated recorders spin tape. Microphones block any view of the athlete's face. Questions are fired one after another. What are the words in "The Three Amigos" video? If you were a...

Timing is important to a basketball team, and for the women's basketball team the Christmas break schedule couldn't have come at a better time. While everyone migrates home for the holiday season, the Huskies will have a six game schedule of which four...

A much needed Christmas break is just around the corner for the majority of NIU students, but as we hop in our cars and head for home, the men's basketball team will be preparing for a holiday schedule that could make for an unhappy new year. The Huskies...

ASSISTANT SPORTS REPORTER After an unsuccessful attempt to join the Missouri Valley Conference, NIU athletics is faced with another conference dilemma. NIU is currently a member of the Mid-Continent Conference in every sport except football, which recently...

The NIU volleyball team has a tough assignment ahead of them in the second round of the NCAA tournament at Penn State this Saturday night. The Lady Lions are ranked 7th nationally, and are currently 27-4 (18-2 in the Big Ten; 1st) and 200-9 in their last...

As we close the book on one of the most insane years in sports history, this is a time to reflect on the excitement, ecstasy, achievements and grief that encompassed all of 1993. First and foremost—Michael Jordan's retirement. For the younger generation...

There was a victory in the 90-79 loss to the University of Southern California even though the scoreboard showed differently. Head coach Jane Albright-Dieterle considers the loss a moral victory. "I didn't want to come away with a moral victory, but that...