The NIU lacrosse club finished off its fall season last weekend with a 10-4 victory over the Hoosiers of Indiana University. Despite the frigid conditions, the Huskie stickmen prevailed, putting on an exhibition in possession offense. "Ball control was...

It's not easy getting invited to the Intercollegiate Tennis Coaches Association/Rolex Midwest Indoor Regional meet. And as the NIU women's tennis invitees discovered, it's even harder to stay. Huskie entrants Sarah Murfey and Svetlana Nedeljkovic learned...

Southwestern Louisiana had just beat NIU 13-12 in the snow at Huskie Stadium Saturday for its first win of the year, but the Ragin‘ Cajuns didn't stay on the field to congratulate one another. Instead, they made a beeline for their locker rooms and...

The NIU volleyball team dealt with the cold this weekend by raising the temperature indoors as it took on the Illinois State Redbirds and conference foe Wisconsin Green-Bay. NIU managed to up its conference record to 4-2 and its overall slate to 18-6...

Neither wind nor cold could aid the NIU field hockey team in its quest to freeze the University of Iowa in Midwest Collegiate Field Hockey Conference action. The fifth-ranked Hawkeyes shrugged off the adverse conditions at Huskie Stadium Sunday to post...

The football during Saturday's NIU—Southwestern Louisiana game squirmed out of players' hands as if it were a block of ice, and considering the weather (25 below-zero wind chill), it must have felt like one too. The Huskies and Southwestern Louisiana...

If at first you don't succeed, check the addition. And it's a good thing NIU swimming coach Jeanne Fleck did just that. Her Huskie women swimmers left Green Bay Friday thinking they had just lost a season-opening dual meet with the University of Wisconsin-Green...

Freshman Derek Niepomnik brought back images of Willy Roy Jr. during his best collegiate performance in the NIU soccer team's 5-1 blowout of Wisconsin-Milwaukee on Saturday. Niepomnik sprayed outside bombs from all over the field—like Roy Jr. used to...

The NIU soccer team could be walking into a potential time-bomb at Milwaukee, Wis., which is set to explode at 2 p.m. tomorrow. The Wisconsin-Milwaukee Panthers boast "Lagos bombs," which packs quite a punch against opposing defenders. Panther's forward...

With November rolling in and the days getting shorter and colder, it must be time for the NIU women's swimming and diving team to take its marks. Jeanne Fleck makes her Huskie coaching debut as the season opens Friday at 7 p.m. at the University of Wisconsin-Green...

Talk about big weekends. The NIU volleyball team (17-5, 3-2) hosts Illinois State Friday and travels to the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay for its last regular season North Star Conference match on Saturday. ISU and Huskie meetings are always big rivalries,...

The NIU wrestling squad opens its regular season this weekend in a six-team tournament hosted by Northwestern University. The tourney will give the young Huskies a chance to see where they stand as far as wrestling outside of practice. "We're taking a...