The NIU soccer team has a knack for knocking off top-rated opponents. Just ask Wisconsin-Madison whom the Huskies beat 2-0; or Akron who lost 1-0 in overtime; or Indiana who breathed a sigh of relief after surviving an onslaught by the Huskies with a...

According to an NCAA study, the NIU football team faces the fourth-toughest schedule in the country this year. Which means the Huskies opener at Fresno State could prove to be an appropriate appetizer for NIU's rugged menu of opponents. The Bulldogs (8-2-1)...

With five returning players and three promising freshmen, the NIU women's golf team holds high hopes for its fall season opener this weekend at the Veenker Memorial Golf Course. The Huskies will head for Ames, Iowa, to tee off in the Iowa State University...

Don't tell NIU field hockey coach Laurie Bell that prospective freshmen were being turned away at the door by school admissions this fall because all she sees this season are freshmen, freshmen, freshmen. Make that 13 new faces altogether to go along...

This is the year identical twins, Marcus and Karsten Roy, step out of their big brother's shadow. For the past three years Marcus, a goalie, and Karsten, a sweeper, have been the anchors of the NIU soccer team's defense, while big brother Willy Roy Jr....

The freshmen jitters can shake up any new player during the first game of the season. But for NIU's Shelby Snyder, the Huskies' season-opener against Cal-State University Fullerton was doubly unsettling. Across the net from Snyder was her best friend,...

Head volleyball coach Pete Waite left the Colorado State University Tournament this weekend breathing a little easier. Not only did his team play its first game of the season, but the Huskies walked away with a 2-1 finish and two All-Tournament players....

Considering the NIU baseball team was comprised of 25 walk-ons last season, it's no wonder Joe "Spanky" McFarland is smiling over new faces. One new visage that the second-year skipper is particularly excited about is that of second baseman Tom O'Neill,...

Willy Roy Jr., the former Huskies' soccer standout who's currently trying his foot—er, hand—at football kicking, has had to make a lot of adjustments lately. You usually don't have 250-pound athletes sprinting at you during soccer games, the shape...

If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. And that is exactly what NIU linkster Nicole Jeray gets to do when she competes in her second LPGA tournament in as many weeks. Saturday through Monday, the Huskie senior takes part in the Rail Classic at...

Any student interested in joining the Rugby Club should attend the first practice of the season on Tuesday which begins at 4 p.m. on the field behind Stevenson Towers. "Everyone is welcome to join, but it would be nice to get some ex-football players...

The parts have been assigned, the script is memorized, and the opening night is about to begin. With preseason and "dress rehearsals" behind them, the NIU volleyball team heads into the season-opening Colorado State-Holiday Inn Invitational tournament...