The preseason media and coaches polls are in for the Big West Conference football season and some Huskie fans may be disappointed. NIU was picked to finish in fifth place in both polls. The Huskies received one first place vote in each poll. NIU earned...

I thought staying in DeKalb this summer would be easy. After all, I had two good jobs, a decent summer apartment and my trusty bicycle for transportation through the mess of construction at NIU. Boy, was I ever wrong! My first day here after moving in,...

The 1993 season will be very significant for the NIU football program. Not only is it their silver anniversary (to celebrate 25 years in the major college ranks), but it's also their first season in the Big West Conference. The Huskies joined the Big...

Trivia sports fact: The world's most popular sport is football but not the game of pigskin we are all accustomed to. This game involves one round ball with spots, two goals with nets and no major padding for players. You guessed it—it's soccer. This...

There were a lot of big-name Chicago Bears out on the field last Friday at the University of Wisconsin, Platteville, but who was number 19 hanging out with the receiving unit? None other than former NIU receiving standout Larry Wynn. Wynn is one of two...

Pete Peltzer, former NIU assistant football aide, died last week after more than two and a half years in a coma. Peltzer, 42, died Wednesday at the Meadowbrook Manor Nursing home in Topeka, Kan. Peltzer had suffered a major coronary on Jan. 1991, which...

Former NIU head baseball coach Darrel Black, 77, died last week at Kishwaukee Community Hospital. A memorial service for Black was held on July 21 at the Jacobsen Funeral Home in Shabbona. Black coached at NIU from 1956 to 1963. His won-lost-tied record...

Rich Seldal elevated local weightlifting a couple of notches by winning the five-state Senior National's 198-pound class July 11 in Wilkesbarre, PA. Seldal, a Sycamore resident and former member of the Power Pro Powerlifting team, bench pressed 424 pounds,...

Time and time again, people stereotype sports players as people whose most complicated thoughts are what numbers match what plays. Many times in the past, the game was more important than education. Therefore, coaches would assist players one way or another...

NIU woman's basketball player E. C. Hill and head women's basketball coach Jane Albright-Dieterle were part of the bronze medal winning U.S. women's basketball team in the World University Games. The World University Games was an international women's...

If you are a weightlifter who enjoys working out for strength rather than body building, then you are in the right area. "Powerlifting is very strong in the Midwest," said Anthony Glass, a certified strength and conditioning specialist at NIU. "Illinois...

Worries over equal treatment of women's athletics have been sweeping the country. This of course raises the question, how does NIU rank in its treatment of women's sports? Does NIU treat women's sports equally with men's in terms of publicity, financial...