Sports Editor Walt Owens keeps a stack of pictures in his desk. Not just of his family, like his son, Mel, who played football for the St. Louis Rams and now works for the XFL. "It was nice watching my son turn pro," he said. Nor is the stack limited...

Ring, ring. It was 3 in the afternoon Friday when Stephen Jones received the phone call that would determine the rest of the 6-foot-3 senior's college basketball career — the call that would tell him he was academically eligible. Jones, a strongly built...

Assistant Sports Editor Andy Greer hasn't been happy with the way his NIU men's basketball team has been playing as of late. In his first four games as coach, Greer said he noticed the team playing like a team. But in the losses against Kent State and...

Sports Reporter While many students were home working for holiday cash, the young NIU wrestling team gained some much-needed experience. The team's first test was just after Christmas at the Midlands Wrestling Championships on Dec. 29 and 30. Captains...

Assistant Sports Editor The NIU men's basketball team continued to struggle during the winter break, losing five out of six games. Interim head coach Andy Greer got his first win as a Huskie coach after NIU defeated Buffalo 64-49 Jan. 6. The Huskies face...

Sports Reporter While the NIU football program celebrated its first winning season in a decade, it lost a member of the Huskie football family last month. Former NIU Hall of Fame player Bob Fowlie, 74, died in Carrollton, Ga. As a two-sport athlete for...

Assistant Sports Editor Iowa State associate head coach Terry Carroll thinks he could be a good addition to the NIU men's basketball program. Carroll called associate athletics director Rob Collins about the opening for the coaching job and thought his...

Cameron Saulsby's football career is still going strong. The NIU senior linebacker returned to Orlando to play in front of his hometown and an ESPN2-televised audience in the 2001 Rotary Gridiron Classic. The game pit an all-star squad for Saulsby's home...

Pens scribble on reporters' pads. Motor-driven cameras click. Battery-operated recorders spin tape. Microphones block any view of the athlete's face. Questions are fired one after another. What are the words in "The Three Amigos" video? If you were a...

A much needed Christmas break is just around the corner for the majority of NIU students, but as we hop in our cars and head for home, the men's basketball team will be preparing for a holiday schedule that could make for an unhappy new year. The Huskies...

ASSISTANT SPORTS REPORTER After an unsuccessful attempt to join the Missouri Valley Conference, NIU athletics is faced with another conference dilemma. NIU is currently a member of the Mid-Continent Conference in every sport except football, which recently...

The NIU volleyball team has a tough assignment ahead of them in the second round of the NCAA tournament at Penn State this Saturday night. The Lady Lions are ranked 7th nationally, and are currently 27-4 (18-2 in the Big Ten; 1st) and 200-9 in their last...