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....

AMARILLO, Texas—Based on the NIU women's basketball team's performance Thursday, the NCAA selection committee made the right decision when they chose the field for the NCAA Tournament. To the disappointment of all the Huskies, the committee didn't feel...

Thursday appeared to be the day the NIU baseball team would win its first game of the season. For a while, that is. The Huskies dropped both ends of an afternoon doubleheader at Chicago State by the scores of 4-3 and 8-2. In the first game, NIU (0-9)...

Nine of the 16 NIU sports teams get additional travel money to go on "special trips," which account for an extra $35,000 in the budget. These special trips include the winter team's voyages and the spring break trips. Teams can only take in-season trips....

The NIU baseball team has a magic number ... of sorts. After Thursday, it remains the same. NIU's magic number has been stuck on one since the beginning of the season. The number's diminishment to zero, which will occur only after the Huskies win a game,...

Now is the time to put that spring fever into some serious volleyball action. The NIU volleyball team and DeKalb's WDKB-FM radio station, B95, are sponsoring a sand volleyball tournament April 21 which is open to all NIU students and faculty as well as...

Some things, it seems, never change. This weekend the NIU softball team will continue its road trip to Illinois State for the ISU Tournament in Normal, Ill. beginning Friday. NIU has been on the road for every game this season playing out a difficult...

In terms of athlete-graduation rates, NIU fits in towards the top of the Mid-Continent Conference and the conference, in turn, falls roughly in the middle of the national average. According to numbers recently published in the Chronicle of Higher Education,...

NIU's athletic department budget, as detailed in Thursday's Northern Star, may appear to be somewhat larger than the average for state schools, but exact numbers are hard to come by. Complicating any budget comparisons is the widely differing range of...