Splitting its games over the weekend, the NIU women's soccer team has won two of its last three games, which gives them their best mark in a three game stretch this year. On Friday, the Huskies (3-10-1, 3-7 in the Mid-American Conference) lost 2-0 to...

Joe Novak could not believe his ears Saturday when he found out Ball State defeated the Mid-American Conference West Division leader Toledo. NIU athletics director Cary Groth stopped the press conference to let everyone know the Cardinals pulled off the...

Nothing personal, but Tenisha Wilkins wanted to get out to quick starts for the NIU volleyball team in this weekend's matches. Or. . . was it personal? The 5'9" junior from Chicago Simeon High School jumped out of the blocks for the Huskies in their first...

After playing a sluggish match Friday, the NIU volleyball team came out Saturday and dominated one of the conference's better teams. Toledo, 12-7, was swept by the Huskies. Despite the scores of 30-24, 30-21, 30-21, NIU played with intense emotion and...

The NIU women's soccer team and coach Frank Horvat look to win their second straight game this weekend after upsetting Western Michigan 4-1 last Friday. "I think we should take any game as it's the hardest game and the most important game," Denise Papke...

NIU's club hockey team will play its first game in three weeks this weekend, all the while one point is being pounded into the player's heads. "We need to play for 60 minutes." Those were the words of Coach Bill Thorn, following the Huskies (0-1-1) first...

Facing stiff competition in the first meet of the year sometimes can be overwhelming. This was not the case for the NIU swim team when it faced Wisconsin last Friday. The Huskies battled with one of the Big 10's best all throughout the night before eventually...

Vince Lombardi described it best when he said winning isn't everything, it's the only thing. So far this fall season NIU's sports teams haven't had much success fulfilling that statement. Oh, wait a minute. We do have one team on a roll. Yep, the volleyball...

Jill Heikkila, substitute midfielder for the women's soccer team, will miss the remainder of the season because of a torn anterior cruciate ligament and possible cartilage damage in her left knee. Heikkila suffered the injury Sept. 30 in the team's 2-1...

"It's not a glamourous job being a walk-on basketball player." Despite NIU men's assistant coach Mike Shepherd's unappealing introduction Wednesday night at the Office of Campus Recreation, there were 28 NIU students in attendance who were trying to make...

Decent, but not good enough. That was how NIU men's soccer assistant coach Karsten Roy described the play of the Huskies after they fell to 19th-ranked Wisconsin-Milwaukee Wednesday 3-0. With their seventh consecutive win, the host Broncos retained possession...

Even though the collegiate baseball season ended four months ago for the NIU baseball team, it hasn't stopped playing. The fall season ended on Monday, concluding six weeks of intrasquad play. NIU coach Dave Schrage said a lot was discovered about the...