It is a long and winding road that finds New York-born Brian Hammel living and working in DeKalb. A road littered with basketballs. For it is mainly due to Hammel's profession—he is a collegiate basketball coach—that he looks out his kitchen window...

The NIU men's basketball team faces its final tune-up of the season against Marathon Oil tonight before facing the long drive of the regular season. Head mechanic, err, head coach Brian Hammel and his running Huskies face one of the top amateur teams...

They're back. The Whitney Young High School connection will be making its presence full-time this year for the NIU women's basketball team. For the first time in two years, Cindy Conner and E.C. Hill will be on the same court in an official basketball...

"All I wanted was to get back to safe ground again and have a long rest,"—Sir Edmund Hillary, 1955. Hillary said those words in his book High Adventure. It was his first reaction after scaling a mountain. NIU's women's basketball team may share the...

The heat is on E.C. Hill, but she remains collected. She has never played in an official college basketball game, yet her coach, NIU's women's basketball head boss Jane Albright-Dieterle, said she will be the main attraction—a leader relied on to score...

On a day set aside to honor seniors, the NIU football team turned to a junior to lead it to a welcome victory. Junior quarterback Rob Rugai, starting his first game this season, passed for a touchdown and rushed for a TD in the Huskies' 27-24 win over...

On the scoreboard, the NIU women's swimming squad had very little with which to be encouraged. On the stopwatch, first-year coach Jeanne Fleck found several reasons to be optimistic. On Friday evening, the University of Iowa skied to a 184-102 triumph...

College basketball's early signing period finds the NIU men's program expecting to have five high schoolers soon commit to the Huskies. So far, no letters of intent have crossed coach Brian Hammel's desk. But these five are expected to join NIU next year:...

If the Australian National women's basketball team's coach Robbee Cadee needs someone to vouch that his team deserves to be in the 1992 Summer Olympics, he should contact DeKalb. "They're wanting to qualify for the Olympics," NIU head coach Jane Albright-Dieterle...

The NIU wrestling squad took a lot of youth and inexperience to the University of Wisconsin-Madison for dual meets Saturday. The only thing they got out of the meet was a lesson. What head coach Ed Vatch called a "positive experience," most people would...

Although NIU's trip to Wichita State University had a questionable start, there was no uncertainty by the end of the voyage as to why the Huskies played in the WSU Tournament held Friday and Saturday. Despite the fact NIU's plane did not leave O'Hare...

Saturday afternoon's football game was the last at Huskie Stadium for NIU seniors, so it was imperative to them that they win. "It's been a long season," senior defensive end Scott Van Bellinger said. "I figured I'd get a little fired up for this one....