NIU's men's tennis team picked up an emotional 8-1 victory over Purdue University Sunday at the Aurora Tennis Club. While NIU had practiced all week without direct guidance from coach Chuck Merzbacher, sidelined by a bout with chicken pox, the Huskies...

Saturday the NIU women's tennis team will be hosting a "pretty good" Eastern Michigan squad with the hopes of continuing their winning ways. NIU is on a bit of a hot streak, coming off of a thorough thrashing of North Star Conference foe Wisconsin-Green...

In the immortal words of Hank Williams Jr., "Are you ready for some football?" If you are, you don't have to wait for Monday night. The NIU Huskies start their spring football practices Saturday. Spring practice will culminate in the annual intrasquad...

The recent weather in the Midwest has done nothing to help the NIU softball team as it anxiously awaits another opportunity to take the field. It's now been two weeks since NIU has played with the recent cancellation of a double-header scheduled to take...

In the aftermath of NIU's season-ending loss to Purdue on Sunday, the battle cry from the Huskies is "we can't wait until Nov. 1." Although the Boilermakers dumped the Huskies 98-62 in the second round of the NCAA Tournament, another lesson was gained...

All aboard. Next stop—West Lafayette, Ind., home of the team that never seems to vanish from NIU's sights of late. For the second time in three years, the Huskies and their newest rival, No. 3-seeded Purdue, will chug away at each other in the second...

T.C. Dantzler's high hopes for his third-straight appearance at the NCAA Division I Wrestling Championships started out on the wrong foot, took a hopeful step and ended in heartbreaking fashion by the end of the night. Dantzler did not get the luck of...

The signs brought by the Huskie faithful started cropping up with 40 seconds left in the second half of NIU's women's basketball game versus Louisiana Tech University Wednesday. One said "Pur-who?" and another read "We want Purdue." The Purdue Boilermakers...

"On the road again" seems to be the general theme for NIU athletic teams this weekend. Things start out tonight at 7 p.m. when the NIU gymnastics team competes in the eight-team State of Illinois Classic at Champaign. Then, on Saturday, the 3-4 Huskies'...

Availability of tickets for last night's NCAA first round game between NIU and Louisiana Tech prompted discreet conversation at yesterday's Athletic Board meeting. Questions arose over the fact that season ticket-holders were not guaranteed their seats...

To be a champion, you have to beat a champion. The NIU women's basketball team took one giant step in that direction last night with a 77-71 overtime victory over two-time national champion Louisiana Tech in the opening round of the NCAA Tournament. A...

Ever since his first-round loss in last year's NCAA Wrestling Tournament, NIU's T.C. Dantzler has been waiting anxiously for this moment. Dantzler will square off today with the top wrestlers in the nation, as the first round of the NCAA Wrestling Championships...