Chalking up an outstanding premier appearance at the NCAA Central Regional Championships was the objective, but the NIU women's gymnastic team had to chalk it up as experience. The Huskies took a disappointing fifth-place finish in the seven team regional...

Second place seems to be a comfortable position for the NIU softball team. Once again, the Huskies took a tournament runner-up trophy for the second consecutive weekend. Game one of the University of Michigan Tournament pitted the Huskies against DePaul....

Surprise. The NIU baseball team did it, it finally did it. The setting: Huskie Diamond, the place the Huskies like to call "Field of Dreams." But until Sunday, it had been anything but dreamy for the Huskies. In fact, it had been a field of nightmares,...

Texas A&M University has contacted NIU Athletic Director Gerald O'Dell about permission to talk to head basketball coach Jim Molinari. "Yes, they have contacted me," O'Dell said. "It's that time of the year when coaching changes take place. So, it's...

NIU women's basketball coach Jane Albright is also being considered for another job. The University of Arizona has contacted NIU athletic director Gerald O'Dell about the seven-year NIU coach succeeding June Olkowski, who resigned after a four-year stint....

The NIU baseball team is desperate. Its head coach, Joe McFarland, hopes his lose-weary club's furious search for victory will be over by the weekend's conclusion. The 0-17 Huskies travel to Valparaiso to play Saturday. NIU will then make its way back...

Winning is fun, but revenge can be "oh so sweet." The NIU women's gymnatics team is hoping for a little of both when the Huskies head to Auburn for their first-ever team appearance at the NCAA Central Regional Championships Saturday at 7 p.m. NIU's regional...

Through rain, mud and injuries, the NIU softball team (11-12) has continued with strong efforts in every outing. Thursday's encounter against Indiana State was no exception. For an injury-prone team, the Huskies used every bit of their resources to handle...

After being bumped down to No. 2 singles last month, Mats Persson's 6-1, 6-2 dumping of an Eastern Michigan opponent earned him the Mid-Continent Conference Tennis Player of the week. Persson has a 10-7 spring dual-meet record. He also won his 20th doubles...

Any coach will tell you that after a team loses several games in a row, it no longer plays to win. When that happens, coaches say, losing becomes expected and contagious. If losing is infectious, it's an epidemic on NIU's baseball team. For the seventeenth...

Two NIU women gymnasts will be leaving a lifetime of gymnastics behind them when they board the plane for Auburn, Ala., Thursday. The NCAA Central Regional Championships Saturday at Auburn University is the last time seniors Martha Unger and Laurie Vitallo...

NIU head basketball coach Jim Molinari's name has surfaced in reports regarding the vacant head-coaching position at Texas A&M University. Texas A&M Athletic Director John David Crow reportedly talked to Molinari in Indianapolis this weekend where...