When the career light turns green for the four NIU women's basketball seniors in May, expect them to cruise right into a sports-oriented future. Denise Dove, Lisa Foss, Denise Lipnisky and Toby Meeks all envision some sort of sports-related occupation...

Going winless in 16 tries would be enough to make anyone want to give up hope, but for NIU's baseball squad, giving up is the last thing in mind. Coming into this season, the players and fans alike knew it would be rough going. This was because the team...

In the world of women's gymnastics, earning respect and notoriety takes more than NIU's No. 15 national team ranking and a 22-1 record. The principle is simple: Having one great season is good for the team. Having consistently great seasons is good for...

NIU's baseball team had thought its Monday home-opening doubleheader against the Chicago State Cougars would feature its first victory in 1991. The victory-deprived Huskies had thought that because they played the Cougars so competitively in a March 21...

Even with the NIU baseball team's record at 0-14, the last thing the Huskies' head coach Joe "Spanky" McFarland has to worry about is his players' confidence level heading into Monday's doubleheader home opener against Chicago State. "I know we can definitely...

The more things change, the more they ... well, you know the rest of that axiom, and by now, so must the NIU baseball team. As days become weeks, the Huskies' dubious, season-long winless streak continues to grow and rankle. Last weekend, the Huskies...

If the NIU softball team plans to return to the Lady Redbird Classic next year, the players will have a much different philosophy: losing is everything. It seemed that losing gave the Huskies a winning advantage, citing their second-place trophy for a...

In the 1990s Land of the Giants with aircraft carriers in the paint and seven-foot lottery draft picks on the wing, NIU's scrappy 5-10, 150-pound senior guard Donald Whiteside always elbowed the big boys for equal time. You know, crusades for "short people."...

More than a single thorn would be necessary to mar the otherwise rosy season of the NIU women's gymnastic team. But that one thorn can still be difficult to ignore. NIU headed into its last regular season meet—the Mississippi Valley Championships—with...

March, 1991 will certainly become a permanent fixture in the mind of NIU women's basketball guard Lisa Foss. Just 18 days after Foss was named the Player of the Year in the North Star Conference and one day after the senior collected All-NWIT honors,...

After going winless in its first nine games, the NIU baseball team has waited long enough to taste its first victory. NIU found out Tuesday it would have to wait at least one more day. After observing the poor-playing surface of their home field Monday...

With this season marking the swan song for seniors on the NIU men's basketball team, the main focus for these seniors is now concentrated on graduation, and life after NIU. Just as these seniors had goals for a "season to remember" with hard work on the...