A group of confident Huskie tennis players will invade the TAM tennis center in Niles Thursday to take on a talented Northwestern Wildcat squad. After a disappointing loss to the University of Cincinnati on Sunday, the team appears eager to show what...

The schedule makers of the North Star Conference must have known something was up when they created the schedule for the league's last hurrah this season. As fate would have it, this year's conference favorites will convene Friday night in Green Bay,...

A new category of excellence has been created in Mid-Contintent Conference sports and before it even had a chance to settle in, a Huskie has already been awarded it. Just two weeks old, the honor of Mid-Con Swimmer of the Week was given to NIU swimmer...

They were only four miles from their Notre Dame campus in South Bend, Ind., on their way home from a swim meet at Northwestern. The Irish women's swimming team was traveling east in the middle of a snow storm and high winds on I-80 early Friday morning....

Rebounding from Friday's home loss to Tennessee, NIU's women's basketball team defeated North Star Conference foe University of Illinois-Chicago 72-55 Monday night at UIC's Physical Education building in front of 202 fans. The Huskies were led by Cindy...

With the NIU men's basketball team down to nine players, three of them walk-ons, any victory is bound to be a team effort. And that was certainly the case last night in Charleston as the depleted Huskies stunned Eastern Illinois 76-67 in a Mid-Continent...

Winter training starts Wednesday for what should be the beginning of an exciting second season of NIU baseball. When the Huskies finally play in DeKalb on March 31 against the University of Northern Iowa, they will have spent their first 21 games on the...

Defending Mid-Continent Conference tennis champions, NIU, dropped a 5-2 decision to the University of Cincinnati at the Recreation Center Sunday. The Huskies came out swinging with their only two victories in the first three matches. In a true crowd-pleaser,...

It was as different as night and day, or as Tennessee head coach Pat Head Summitt put it, "it was two completely different halves." The Lady Volunteers (12-2) extinguished any hopes of an NIU (9-6) upset Friday night with a furious 11-0 run to open the...

Like all fine, well-trained regiments, Tennessee's women's basketball team doesn't flinch when faced with a threat. So when the fourth-ranked Lady Volunteers found themselves down one point at halftime to NIU in hostile Chick Evans Field House Friday...

While NIU's swimming teams enjoyed the weekend off, the NIU men's and women's diving teams did not fare as well as coach Jeff Symons would have liked against numerous diving squads—most of which came out of the Big 10 Conference—at the Illini Classic...

The NIU men's basketball team had some big shoes to fill with the absence of leading scorer Brian Molis Saturday at Western Illinois. Seven-one sophomore center Steve Oldendorf stepped in with a career performance. But it wasn't enough as the Mid-Continent...