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,...

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 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,...

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:...