The NIU baseball team originally had March 26 circled on its calendar; it was to be the day the Huskies would play the Aurora Spartans in their first home game of the year. The Huskies will still play the Spartans on Tuesday - but at Aurora's Snell Field....

The NIU soccer team's all-time second-leading goal scorer hopes to make some different types of goals come next fall. Willy Roy Jr., a senior who led the 1990 soccer team to the Mid-Continent Conference crown, decided to come back to NIU for graduate...

The sight of pigskins flying through the air is coming back to DeKalb soon, and not just because it's tornado season. The Huskies' football team is set to return to the field (or in NIU's case, the carpet) to prepare for the coming season starting on...

Inner unrest began to set in among the NIU women's basketball team, and it started to show during last weekend's NWIT. After compiling a 23-5 ledger throughout the majority of the season, NIU dropped three-of-four games before the NWIT even started. Given...

Greg O'Neil might have played himself right out of the No.1 spot last Saturday. Although the NIU men's tennis team (9-8) dismantled Eastern Michigan (3-10) 7-2 at the NIU Recreation Center, O'Neil ended up in the wrong side of a 6-3, 3-6, 6-4 score. The...

Opponents were not the only thing the NIU softball team needed to overcome en route to its 2-2 split at the Indiana University Tournament this weekend. NIU had an injury-riddled lineup and detrimental weather to overcome. The Huskies started the tournament...

Six-tenths of a point was all it took to stop the NIU women's gymnastics team from achieving its first-ever undefeated season. In Friday's Mississippi Valley Championships, host Southeast Missouri State managed to squeeze by the Huskies with a 190.15-189.55...

AMARILLO, Texas—NIU wasn't the only higher-seeded team to fall at the 23rd annual NWIT at the Amarillo Civic Center. In one of the wackiest endings in NWIT history, the No. 1 seed, Notre Dame went 0-3 to finish last, while the eighth-seeded "cinderella...

AMARILLO, Texas—With an 84-82 squeaker over Notre Dame Saturday, the NIU women's basketball team not only scored a "w" in the win column but captured a season-ending moral triumph. Normally a team wouldn't be all that content with a seventh-out-of-eight...

This weekend the Huskies' softball squad will again be on the road, in fact, NIU will not play its first home game until April 4. The Huskies are in Indiana this weekend for the Indiana University Tournament and will start tourney action by taking on...

Eastern Michigan's experience provides a challenge for the NIU men's tennis team's first home dual meet of the year. The 4-5 Huskies will host the Hurons at the NIU Recreation Center Friday at 10 a.m. after 16 straight road matches. The Hurons have five...

Time has healed the NIU soccer team's disappointment after being snubbed by the NCAA committee last November. But, time has also taken away the Huskies' leading goal scorer Willy Roy Jr., who tallied 33 goals and 43 assists for 109 points in his NIU career....