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...

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,...

The NIU volleyball team upped its North Star Conference ledger to 2-0 after Saturday night's match against the Cleveland State Vikings. In front of 236 fans at the Chick Evans Field House, the Huskie spikers defeated the Vikings in three straight games:...

It was a good Homecoming for Andre Wallace. As a result, it was a bad Homecoming for NIU. Western Michigan's Wallace, a native of Evanston who was recruited by the Huskies, ravaged NIU with 162 rushing yards Saturday and the clinching touchdown as the...

Induction ceremonies for the NIU Hall of Fame took place Friday evening in the Holmes Student Center's Duke Ellington Ballroom. Former NIU gymnasts Darlene Davis Blank and Tom Kennedy, former NIU football player Gary Stearns, former NIU Sports Information...

Sixth-place in the 12-school University of Iowa Hawkeye Invitational? This definitely wasn't the kind of finish to the fall season that NIU women's golf coach Pam Tyska envisioned. Unfortunately, that's what the Huskies got after 54 holes of play in Saturday...

The NIU volleyball team opened up the North Star Conference schedule Friday with an impressive three-game sweep over the visiting Akron Zips 15-3, 15-2, 16-14. The Huskies hadn't played a game in almost two weeks, but they didn't show any signs of rust...

For the NIU field hockey team, a lack of an offensive spark over the weekend once again equaled defeat. Northwestern University defeated the Huskies 2-0 Friday at Evanston, in Midwest Collegiate Field Hockey Conference action. On Saturday, NIU came up...