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...

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...

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...

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...