Must have been the southern hospitality. Must have been the weather. In any case, excuses should be abandoned. Because it must have been the Huskies. On Saturday, the NIU football team met the Ragin‘ Cajuns of the University of Southwestern Louisiana...

IU Legal Counsel George Shur predicts that the Title IX complaint filed last week by Pat Marino, the mother of 1991 Huskie field hockey player Karin Marino, could take months to fix. Gender equity in NIU athletics has been in a lot of discussion over...

Last year, hope defined men's basketball at NIU. This year, security is the operative word. With a new head coach and nine players, one of whom was recruited from the residence halls, the NIU men's basketball team lacked everything it took to achieve...

Thanks for the memories. That was the message the NIU volleyball team and its fans gave two seniors who will not be returning to Chick Evans Field House for another regular season match. Wendy Mason and Andrea Baker have both spent four years here at...

NIU baseball head coach Joe "Spanky" McFarland is thinking spring already. Why is he doing this, you may ask? According to a recent issue of Collegiate Baseball magazine, the Huskies have one of the top recruiting classes in the nation. The publication...

The Huskies are back, though some will tell you that they never left. The only thing they did different last weekend was win. LeShon Johnson again rushed for more than 100 yards, Scott Crabtree again threw for less than 100 yards to go along with multiple...

The NIU women's basketball team will find itself working harder for rebounds this year because the team will be without last year's rebounding leader. Angela Lockett, who collected a team-high 264 boards in 1991-92, will undergo arthroscopic surgery on...

When volleyball fans think of a typical spiker, many envision a Kori Schauer who stands at 6-4 or Amy Foulke who is 6-0. Well, Nikki Kozak out of Winfield stands at 5-7 and is the shortest of NIU's outside hitters. To compensate for size, Kozak tries...

Last May 6, the decision to drop the women's field hockey program in favor of a women's soccer program was made by the NIU Athletic Board. Consequently, the board thought that it would be left at that. However, a complaint was filed last week due to the...

OME: 10-0. That is what the press guides and game programs will say about the 1992 NIU volleyball team as it completed the home portion of this season's slate unblemished. NIU has not lost a home match since last Nov. 1 at the hands of Illinois State....

When the weather gets cold, illness strikes many, especially when you go outside after a swimming meet. The NIU swimming team has fell victim to the cold and flu season. However, they have exactly one week to recover before its season-opening meets at...

Where's the justice? It happens so often. But fairness is forgotten. Hopefully, last Saturday was the last game the NIU Huskies lost on the football field this year. Hopefully, it wasn't the last game for senior free safety Tom Rhomberg. No, not for the...