If you're looking for something to do this weekend, you only have to look as far as the West Campus Courts to see some great tennis. The NIU women's tennis team will be hosting the Huskie Invitational Friday through Sunday. The teams participating in...

After being a key member of the NIU men's basketball team's supporting cast last year, Mike Hidden is ready and willing to assume a bigger role. Hidden, a 6-5 wingman, played tough defense, hit the outside shot and otherwise did what was asked of him...

When the Huskies first got their football schedule, they knew Saturday's game with the Florida Gators—a team with its key players returning—wouldn't be easy. Now, with so much on the line for Florida, NIU (1-5) knows the game will be a downright killer....

The 1991 NIU men's golf campaign is history and for the third year in a row, head coach Jack Pheanis and his Huskie linksters are winners of the Mid-Continent Conference Championship. To the casual observer, the accomplishments of the two-time coach of...

NIU's president and athletic director said an item in Monday's Chicago Tribune, stating that the school is looking into joining the Big Eight Conference, was exaggerated. Mike Conklin, a sports columnist for the paper, wrote that at Friday's NIU Hall...

NIU students may be facing another new ticket policy for men's home basketball games in the very near future. The Long-Range Planning Committee of the Athletic Board is currently working on a plan that would allow students to acquire tickets for all men's...

One of the unwritten rules of college football is that you don't say anything that can be considered negative about an upcoming opponent. Florida Gators coach Steve Spurrier, and some of his players, apparently don't mind breaking the rules when talking...

Eastern Illinois University has a jinx on the NIU soccer team. That's why the Huskies are glad to be playing the Panthers at the friendly confines of Huskie Soccer Field Sunday at 1 p.m. where they own a 19-2-3 record. "There's a lot of hatred spilled...

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...