The attendance woes continue for NIU athletics. But it's no surprise the home attendance figures for NIU football games have dropped, considering the Huskies' 2-8 record. This year, the Huskies drew an average of 11,573 fans at Huskie Stadium, compared...

The NIU volleyball team's Shelby Snyder could be one of NIU's greatest unsung heroes. In her first season with the Huskies, the starting freshman setter has yet to receive any "player-of-the-week" honors, all-tournament recognition or tournament MVP awards....

The three-point shot will run rampant on the Huskies' court this season. Oh boy, will it run rampant. The NIU men's basketball team emphasized that point with an exclamation point in its 94-88 win over Marathon Oil Tuesday night. The Huskies attempted...

For the long haul, Dianna Wingis has bulked up. Wingis, a junior forward on NIU's women's basketball team, averaged 5.5 points and 5.8 rebounds a game last season and started 11 of the Huskies' 35 contests. The Hammond, Ind. native's job last year was...

The NIU football team's 27-24 victory over Illinois State Saturday received as warm a welcome in Huskie-land as a fat turkey does on Thanksgiving. The win provided fine dining for the Huskies' 15 seniors making their final appearance at Huskie Stadium....

The experience of the Australian National women's basketball team showed, and consequently, the mistakes piled up for NIU Sunday. For Huskie head coach Jane Albright-Dieterle, the Australians simply came in and stole everything away in their 93-67 victory...

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...

Her position on the court may have changed, but the impact of one Denise Dove is even more advantageous to the NIU women's basketball team. The playmaking extraordinaire may have used up her four years of player eligibility, but she is back in the NIU...