Tuesday night, big, bad DePaul tried with all its might to intimidate underdog NIU. When Rita Hale and Blue Demons' boss Doug Bruno pulled the last straw of their physical tactics midway through the second half, it was a knowledgeable group of Huskies...

After a loss to the University of Illinois on Friday, head coach Phil Rembert's wrestling squad (2-3) is looking for the consistency his wrestlers showed over the past month, where his Huskies surprised everyone, but himself, at The Midlands and the Michigan...

The NIU cheerleading stunt team traveled to Dallas, Texas over the winter break for the national cheerleading championship, which did not go as expected for the Huskies. Trying to improve on their 10th place finish a year ago, NIU had problems in the...

It's wait until next year for the women to get their fair shake in intercollegiate athletics. With gender equity promised to be the talk of the 1994 NCAA Convention, this year's gathering of university presidents and athletic directors didn't provide...

NIU's level II programs were in full tilt over the holiday weekend. But one of those "deprived" groups performed with the escitement of a level 1 program. The NIU gymnastics team, attempting to bounce back from mistakes in Muncie, dominated in DeKalb...

Leave it to the general to spark her troops. After a first half in which NIU's women's basketball team turned the ball over 12 times, shot just 41 percent (14-34) from the field and found itself in a 41-41 draw, Jane Albright-Dieterle may have given her...

"Apprehensive." Coach Bobbie Cesarek leads the NIU gymnastics team into its first home meet of the season tomorrow attached to the feared emotion. "Just a little bit," added the 16-year skipper. "It seems like when it happens, it happens." After Sandy...

Welcome, oh welcome. Via Michigan by way of Wisconsin. After a couple of stints helping the Big 10, the newest addition of NIU's athletic staff makes his home in the Mid-Continent Conference. He is 26-year-old Tim Madden. He is a graduate of the University...

Generally, "stretch run" refers to that season-ending point of the schedule where teams lay it on the line in their quest for a championship. For the NIU women's basketball team, the "run" comes a little sooner, as the Huskies begin a "stretch" tonight...

"Last year I put pressure on myself because I sat out so long. I wanted to do well my first year." - E.C. hill on what she had to endure a year ago in taking the floor each night as a Huskie. No longer is it 1991-92. Rather, Hill, who is classified a...

They've had a couple of days to think it over. What should have been ... wasn't. What was ... shouldn't have been. NIU gymnastics is now officially underway. With this past weekend's disappointing last place finish at the Ball State Pentangular now behind...

The president-elect still has eight days left until he is even sworn in as the political executive of the United States, but he already has managed to back away from two of his most touted campaign promises: middle-class tax relief and halving the federal...