When losing in the second half, count on the Huskies making a late run. The result isn't always victorious, but a Huskie comeback is often times a frantic one. NIU's women's basketball team was up to its old tricks Wednesday night at Chick Evans Field...

Senior Associate Athletic Director Cary Groth has designed a committee to define the use of $10,000 for an athletic training fund referred to as "nutritional supplements." At the December meeting of the Athletic Board yesterday, all of an NCAA broad-based...

In its debut appearance in all three events at the National Collegiate Cheerleading and Dance Team Championships at Dallas, Texas, the NIU cheerleading squad finished in the top ten in each event. Sixty-four teams from the three divisions were invited...

Donald Whiteside and Donnell Thomas have ended their stellar NIU basketball careers, but that doesn't mean they've stopped making news. Thomas and Whiteside are on the All-Decade performer ballot for the Mid-Continent Conference. In conjunction with the...

With a win well secured, NIU head coach Jane Albright-Dieterle used most of the second half of Monday's 101-67 pummelling of North Star Conference opponent Akron as play time for the second and third stringers. With a couple of minutes left in the game,...

As NCAA reforms slowly change the face of collegiate athletics, NIU Athletic Director Gerald O'Dell recently discussed the state of NIU athletics and some of its most pressing issues. One of the perennial issues facing NIU is conference affiliation for...

History has a tendency to repeat itself when it comes to NIU basketball and Wisconsin-Green Bay's Tony Bennett. The 6-0 senior guard has made a habit of beating the Huskies. Last night was no different. Although he tallied only 14 points, it was more...

NIU Athletic Director Gerald O'Dell calls it "one for the good guys." What he is referring to is the new tougher academic standards passed at last week's NCAA convention in Anaheim, Calif. With collegiate presidents (including NIU's John La Tourette)...

Early in Monday night's game with NIU, Akron's women's basketball team played much unlike the 2-13 team that it is. Shooting lights out, Akron maintained an eight-point lead with 13 minutes left in the first half. Then, Akron wilted and the Huskies took...

A controversy regarding NIU Athletic Director Gerald O'Dell's outside consulting work is a dead issue, said most of its key players. The Northern Star revealed in its Dec. 5th issue that O'Dell was linked in his consulting work at South Florida University...

Then there were nine. The NIU men's basketball team is losing players so fast that head coach Brian Hammel, who was drafted by the NBA and CBA, might be tempted to suit up himself. Going into the second half of the season, the Huskies are down to nine...