Shades of 1989-90? Based on what's happened in the first quarter of this year's schedule, the NIU women's basketball team is beginning to offer some semblance of that magical season in which the Huskies finished 26-5 and led the nation in scoring. Entering...

Logan, Utah has a new resident. And it's not NIU Athletic Director Gerald O'Dell. Utah State University was in search of an athletic director over the holidays. O'Dell was one of four finalists for the USU position. Joining him were Charles Johnson, an...

MILWAUKEE—While the rest of us were traveling home for Thanksgiving last Wednesday, NIU's women's basketball was hard at work as the Huskies posted a 77-51 exhibition win over Snitz Manufacturing, an AAU team, at Wisconsin Lutheran College. "I felt...

The following is a list. Neither a grocery or hate list, but a list of all the things to be happy about. This list will just about cover all the things in life which bring about a smile and lighten the hearts of people when they say, see, hear or do anything...

NIU's women's basketball team will be praying for more rebounds at the Thanksgiving table because Angela Lockett, last year's rebounding queen, is officially out for the season following reconstructive surgery on her left knee. Lockett, who tore her anterior...

The Mid-Continent Conference volleyball tournament is coming to DeKalb's Chick Evans Field House this weekend. NIU has fought all season for the right to host the post-season tourney and succeeded by posting a perfect 16-0 record in the league. The top-seeded...

Tough jobs are designed to test the ambitious. But does achieving that yearn of what was initially desired necessarily fulfill the need? The patience needed to perform the duties of these guys clearly nullifies the aforementioned and immediately categorizes...

Both the men's and women's swimming and diving teams took it on the chin this weekend by dropping their respective meets to defending Mid-Continent Conference champion Wright State. On the women's side, the final tally was 135-101, which was actually...

NIU's football team was hoping to finish the season on a high note as the title of a winning season was on the line. However, the Huskies will have to wait another year because there will be no winning season in 1992 as the Toledo Rockets (8-3) pounded...

That is how the NIU volleyball team finished its season in the Mid-Continent Conference with victories over Valparaiso University (15-6, 15-9, 15-9) and the University of Illinois-Chicago (15-5, 15-11, 15-3) this weekend. Head coach Pete Waite conceded...

The NIU swimming teams face a tough assignment today when they travel to Dayton, Ohio, to face Wright State University. Having begun the week dropping both the men's and women's meets to nationally-ranked University of Wisconsin, the Huskies end it by...

The NIU men's and women's swimming and diving teams ran into a brick wall on their first road trip of the young 1992-93 season. That brick wall was the University of Wisconsin as the Badgers upended the men's team 131-85, while the women's side fell 154-88...