The NIU men's and women's swimming and diving teams had over two weeks to prepare for the Mid-Continent Conference Championships this weekend in Cleveland, Ohio. However, no amount of time seemed to be enough to prepare for a meet of such high caliber...

Who said March Madness is restricted to NCAA basketball? Not the NIU gymnastics team. With four meets remaining—beginning March 5 at home (last three on the road)—the ladies are looking to transpose their success into a regional bid at Louisiana State...

Somewhere, it has been said that practice makes perfect. Poland native Goha Mroz somehow has avoided that stereotype in her travels worldwide. But, in some way, those journeys had to play into her efforts Sunday afternoon at Chick Evans Field House. The...

Saturday night, two teams went where they have never been before under their current regimes. What happened at Illinois-Chicago's Physical Education Building certainly had the qualifications needed for an episode of "The Twilight Zone" as UIC's women's...

No need for panic. But leave some room for concern. This will be the last day you'll view ‘Northern Illinois' as No. 21 in Mel Greenburg's AP Poll. If that doesn't shock you, how about Saturday's loss to the UIC Flames. "Basically, we didn't do what...

Despite the freezing weather in DeKalb, the NIU softball team managed to find a way to open up its ‘spring' schedule as it traveled to Lafayette, La., for doubleheaders against the 10th-ranked Ragin‘ Cajuns of Southwestern Louisiana and McNeese State....

Snow, Arctic cold and wind chills around 30 below. Yeah, it must be the time of the year for the NIU softball team to start the 1993 campaign. After all it is spring semester, right? All kidding aside, the Huskies will start the 1993 season this weekend...

Wednesday night, NIU's women's basketball team confessed the truth. In their 103-57 pounding of Eastern Illinois at Chick Evans Field House, the Huskies revealed their real identities. All 11 healthy players—although some were fighting the sick bug—got...

The Western Illinois Leathernecks fell victim to fate last night bowing to the NIU men's basketball team 74-66. The victory puts WIU in the Huskie record book as the 300th opponent to fall to an NIU men's team in Chick Evans Fieldhouse. Chick Evans has...

The NIU wrestling team succeeded in what they went out to accomplish last night at DeKalb High School, when they came out victorious in one of two meets against Purdue University and Northwestern University. The Huskies (5-7) ended their 4-match losing...

The next attraction on Chick Evans Field House's bill after the Black Crowes brought the house down is the Western Illinois University Leathernecks. WIU (7-15, 4-8) invades DeKalb tonight and will be attempting to sweep the season series from the Huskies...

Give a huskie some familiar surroundings and it will escape undaunted. Give the Huskies a challenge and they will respond in ascending fashion. As the NIU women's gymnastics team took off on its once-a-year plane trip to faraway land, realizations could...