"It's not easy being green,"—Kermit the Frog. "It isn't easy being a green (as in inexperienced) basketball player,"—paraphrased from NIU head basketball coach Brian Hammel. The greenest of Hammel's Huskies are a pair of freshman forwards, Marlin...

For the third consecutive year, the NIU soccer team is riding the bubble. But it was an ice patch that caused the cancellation of the DePaul match yesterday at Huskie Soccer Field, and the match probably will not be made up. "It was smart not to play,"...

Being a student-athlete at a Division I university is not the easiest thing to do. But NIU wrestler Mel Heckman has proved that he can hit the books as hard as he can hit his opponents. Besides posting a 9-6 record last season, which included five pins,...

NIU soccer coach Willy Roy has had an effect on a lot of lives. While Roy was being inducted to the Chicago Sports Hall of Fame last Friday, a man climbed up to the podium and worshipped the fifth-year NIU soccer coach. "You're the greatest, Willy," the...

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...

The NIU volleyball team can relax now that regular season conference matches are behind it, right? Check again. The only thing the Huskies plan on relaxing is their coach, Pete Waite, who would like to see NIU defeat intrastate rival DePaul University...

When you think of dominant NIU women's basketball rebounders, the names Carol Owens, Tammy Hinchee and Lisa Starosta come to mind. For head coach Jane Albright-Dieterle, Angela Lockett could very well continue that "inside" tradition of rebounding greats....

For the first time this season, the NIU football team is guaranteed of not losing a game this coming weekend. But that's true only because the Huskies have the week off after dropping a 13-12 decision to Southwestern Louisiana Saturday. Head coach Charlie...

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...