Nicki Pedicini has spent a lifetime learning gymnastic techniques, but at NIU, the freshman standout is still learning the ropes. By the looks of Pedicini's success this season, it appears she is catching on rather quickly. Pedicini was named the all-around...

Thursday's NIU women's basketball game with the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay is "Big." How big is it? Extremely. Very. Extraordinarily. There can't be enough adjectives to describe this opener to "Big Thursday." It's the battle of the North Star...

It is probably too early and just a little too cold to drag out the softball equipment and set up the diamond, but NIU's softball squad has still been busy preparing for the upcoming season. Since mid-October, the Huskies have had to make do within the...

Every day of the week, someone, somewhere, has some kind of daily gimmick. The NFL has Super Bowl Sunday, ESPN has Big Monday, even the Loop has Two-For-Tuesday. So NIU has joined the club with their rendition of "Big Thursday." Included in the festivities...

Two hours of practice, another hour of individual shooting drills, followed by a one-on-one game is just a typical workout for NIU women's basketball phenom Lisa Foss. This probably explains why Foss is in the position to becme NIU's all-time leading...

Casual observers of NIU athletics may feel the Huskies' most prominent sports figures are Stacey Robinson, Donnell Thomas and Lisa Foss. The expert observer, though, will be sure to add three names to that list: Jim Kossakowski, Mark Kuehl and T.C. Dantzler....

NIU's "no-names" are rapidly establishing identity. Five unknown underclassmen that fill the paint for the NIU women's basketball team keep coming up with key performances that have opposing coaches turning their heads. Take DePaul's Doug Bruno for example....

Although the NIU men's swimming team finished last at Friday and Saturday's University of Illinois Illini Classic, it wasn't a total disaster. The meet did include noteworthy performances from several Huskies' swimmers. NIU's Steve Beck took second place...

The Chick Evans Field House has been the site of many exciting basketball games this season, and fan support by the NIU student body has been a major contributing factor to this. Due to the tremendous rise in attendance this season, NIU students will...

Akron and Cleveland, Ohio may not be the garden spots of the world, but it would not be surprising if NIU's men's basketball coach Jim Molinari starts scheduling more games in the Buckeye State. Something about being in Ohio seems to inspire the Huskies...

NIU's women's tennis team got off to a positive spring campaign by winning nine out of fifteen total matches in Friday through Sunday's University of Notre Dame Eck Doubles Classic. The Huskies were led by a ninth-place finish from Sarah Murfey and Sesca...

Lisa Foss will remember her last visit to Alumni Hall as the night she scored 37 points and literally held off every DePaul threat in the final five minutes. But more importantly, as the evening that NIU knocked off DePaul, 91-82. Doug Bruno would just...