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...

With November rolling in and the days getting shorter and colder, it must be time for the NIU women's swimming and diving team to take its marks. Jeanne Fleck makes her Huskie coaching debut as the season opens Friday at 7 p.m. at the University of Wisconsin-Green...

Talk about big weekends. The NIU volleyball team (17-5, 3-2) hosts Illinois State Friday and travels to the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay for its last regular season North Star Conference match on Saturday. ISU and Huskie meetings are always big rivalries,...

The NIU wrestling squad opens its regular season this weekend in a six-team tournament hosted by Northwestern University. The tourney will give the young Huskies a chance to see where they stand as far as wrestling outside of practice. "We're taking a...

After two grueling months of facing some of the nation's best, what better way for the NIU field hockey team to close out the home portion of its schedule than against another "giant." The Huskies and fifth-ranked University of Iowa close out Huskie Stadium...

The NIU soccer team could be walking into a potential time-bomb at Milwaukee, Wis., which is set to explode at 2 p.m. tomorrow. The Wisconsin-Milwaukee Panthers boast "Lagos bombs," which packs quite a punch against opposing defenders. Panther's forward...

When in a pinch last season, the NIU women's basketball team would lean on the talents of senior guards Lisa Foss, Denise Dove and Toby Meeks. Those three were the leaders of the Huskies, and head coach Jane Albright-Dieterle has already said she won't...

Who says Huskie Stadium is solely used for NIU and DeKalb High School football? Many of you would loudly proclaim ‘yes' to that question. But there are a few out there who actually realize the right answer is ‘no.' The NIU field hockey team also shares...

Not many basketball players jet over to France for a basketball tryout. One who did exactly that is NIU Hall of Famer Tim Dillon. "It might have been the craziest week of my life," said Dillon from his home in Dixon after participating in the 1991 McDonald's...

Late in NIU's Sept. 28 football game against Iowa, Huskies' linebacker Nick Jones had his life changed. "I was making a tackle and a teammate hit me on the side of the head. I thought it was a stinger, but I couldn't even move my left arm," Jones said....

No matter what its opponent's records have been, the NIU soccer team has managed to make each match a challenge. Coming into Huskie Soccer Field at 3 p.m. today is Valparaiso (4-8-1), which gave NIU (8-3-2) all it could handle last year. John Lechner...