There was a bad omen going into yesterday's match against Illinois-Chicago, but the NIU soccer team overcame it. Dusty Showers was suspended for the match for collecting five yellow cards; Jim Hall and Per Ekholdt were sick; and John Lechner was injured....

Has anyone seen head gymnastics' coach Bobbie Cesarek lately? With NIU's gymnastic season still months away (mid-January) she is probably at the golf course, right? Wrong. Between running pre-season practices, recruiting and filling out dreaded NCAA reports,...

Heard the one about Pete and Repeat? Forget the grade school joke about the two boys being out on a boat ... NIU's head volleyball coach Pete Waite would like "Repeat" to stay right next to him this weekend. Waite and the Huskies (15-3) hope to duplicate...

NIU is going Duck hunting today as the University of Oregon challenges the Huskies at Normal. "Every match is going to be pretty tough," said head coach Chuck Merzbacher. "It may come down to the doubles, and that's what we're doing well right now." Up...

The NIU men's tennis team received a tremendous boost this year with the addition of freshman Marty Engel. Engel is playing in the No. 1 flight against the best the other schools have to offer. And he is beating them. Engel is 5-0 with two tournament...

After one and a half months of walk-on tryouts, professional scout practices and intersquad scrimmages, the NIU baseball team can rest easy. That is, the finalized baseball team. Head coach Joe "Spanky" McFarland closed out the fall campaign by making...

The first official dribble should come around 3:00 p.m. Tuesday at Chick Evans Field House. Official because basketball teams can officially begin practicing today in preparation for the 1991-92 season. For NIU's men's basketball team, the coming season...

Willy Roy is making wholesale changes to find solutions to his offensive problems. The Huskies, 7-3-1, are looking for more point production after scoring only one goal in all three of their losses against Hartwick, Southern Methodist and Akron. "We don't...

Look for talk about postseason play to start surfacing around the NIU volleyball team—if it hasn't already begun. With the sweeping victories over North Star Conference foes Akron (15-3, 15-2, 16-14) and Cleveland State (15-7, 15-0, 15-7) over the weekend,...

If there's a quarterback controversy regarding the NIU football team, it certainly doesn't stem from any indecision on the part of the head coach. Charlie Sadler emphatically said Monday that Stacey McKinney will be the starting quarterback Saturday at...

The Huskie women's golf team may have ended their season on a somewhat sour note, but still own the bragging rights of tallying its best fall record ever. With a grand total of 69 wins, six losses and one tie accumulated in six tournaments this season,...

Is collegiate tennis really this easy? That's the question NIU men's standout Marty Engel must be asking himself following the Bowling Green State University Fall Invitational this weekend. Engel took his second consecutive No. 1 singles tourney title,...