NIU tennis coach Chuck Merzbacher couldn't be there when his team gave him his first Big Ten victory. Merzbacher learned of his father's death and had to leave town Saturday, the day before the meet against Purdue. On Sunday, the Huskies played on guts...

Finally, it seems, the NIU softball team will be able to screw in the cleats and play ball tomorrow. NIU is scheduled to host Northeastern Illinois University in a 2 p.m. doubleheader at Huskie Softball Diamond. The Huskies have eagerly been awaiting...

The NIU men's basketball team officially capped its season this weekend with the annual postseason Awards Banquet. NIU seniors Mike Hidden and Brian Molis were honored for their NIU careers with Hidden, a Huskie for four years, dominating the awards....

The tallies are in and the Huskie women's gymnastics team 1992 campaign is officially over. After Saturday's performance at Chick Evans Field House, NIU played a waiting game to see if its team average was high enough to qualify for the postseason regionals....

If momentum counts, then it's no wonder coach Pam Tyska feels as if her NIU women's golf team picked up a victory by the end of Sunday's final round of the Western Kentucky University Lady Hilltopper Invitational. Granted the Huskies finished only fourth...

NIU's men's tennis team picked up an emotional 8-1 victory over Purdue University Sunday at the Aurora Tennis Club. While NIU had practiced all week without direct guidance from coach Chuck Merzbacher, sidelined by a bout with chicken pox, the Huskies...

The NIU women's tennis team had a couple of good reasons for beating Eastern Michigan University 6-3 Friday at the Kishwaukee YMCA Indoor Tennis Courts. First, the Huskies wanted revenge for last season's 6-3 defeat to the Eagles in Ypsilanti, Mich. Another...

After the NIU men's baseball team crushed Western Illinois University 8-1 in their opening game Saturday, the Leathernecks retaliated with a seven-run fifth inning en route to a 9-4 victory in the nightcap. The doubleheader marked the opening of Mid-Continent...

NIU women's gymnastics coach Bobbie Cesarek and her squad could not have asked for a more pleasing season finale this weekend. The Huskies stole the show in the Midwest Independent Gymnastics Championships after registering a season-best 189.15 Saturday...

Saturday the NIU women's tennis team will be hosting a "pretty good" Eastern Michigan squad with the hopes of continuing their winning ways. NIU is on a bit of a hot streak, coming off of a thorough thrashing of North Star Conference foe Wisconsin-Green...

In the immortal words of Hank Williams Jr., "Are you ready for some football?" If you are, you don't have to wait for Monday night. The NIU Huskies start their spring football practices Saturday. Spring practice will culminate in the annual intrasquad...

The recent weather in the Midwest has done nothing to help the NIU softball team as it anxiously awaits another opportunity to take the field. It's now been two weeks since NIU has played with the recent cancellation of a double-header scheduled to take...