The NIU football team's 27-24 victory over Illinois State Saturday received as warm a welcome in Huskie-land as a fat turkey does on Thanksgiving. The win provided fine dining for the Huskies' 15 seniors making their final appearance at Huskie Stadium....

The experience of the Australian National women's basketball team showed, and consequently, the mistakes piled up for NIU Sunday. For Huskie head coach Jane Albright-Dieterle, the Australians simply came in and stole everything away in their 93-67 victory...

It is a long and winding road that finds New York-born Brian Hammel living and working in DeKalb. A road littered with basketballs. For it is mainly due to Hammel's profession—he is a collegiate basketball coach—that he looks out his kitchen window...

College basketball's early signing period finds the NIU men's program expecting to have five high schoolers soon commit to the Huskies. So far, no letters of intent have crossed coach Brian Hammel's desk. But these five are expected to join NIU next year:...

If the Australian National women's basketball team's coach Robbee Cadee needs someone to vouch that his team deserves to be in the 1992 Summer Olympics, he should contact DeKalb. "They're wanting to qualify for the Olympics," NIU head coach Jane Albright-Dieterle...

The NIU wrestling squad took a lot of youth and inexperience to the University of Wisconsin-Madison for dual meets Saturday. The only thing they got out of the meet was a lesson. What head coach Ed Vatch called a "positive experience," most people would...

Although NIU's trip to Wichita State University had a questionable start, there was no uncertainty by the end of the voyage as to why the Huskies played in the WSU Tournament held Friday and Saturday. Despite the fact NIU's plane did not leave O'Hare...

Saturday afternoon's football game was the last at Huskie Stadium for NIU seniors, so it was imperative to them that they win. "It's been a long season," senior defensive end Scott Van Bellinger said. "I figured I'd get a little fired up for this one....

On a day set aside to honor seniors, the NIU football team turned to a junior to lead it to a welcome victory. Junior quarterback Rob Rugai, starting his first game this season, passed for a touchdown and rushed for a TD in the Huskies' 27-24 win over...

On the scoreboard, the NIU women's swimming squad had very little with which to be encouraged. On the stopwatch, first-year coach Jeanne Fleck found several reasons to be optimistic. On Friday evening, the University of Iowa skied to a 184-102 triumph...

While the Huskies are preparing for their conference championships (Nov. 23-24), Wichita State University is offering the NIU volleyball team the ultimate practice session—a four team tournament held Friday and Saturday The University of Tulsa (8-21),...

Although the men's and women's swimming teams are going their separate ways this weekend, they both want to head in the same direction—stopwatch improvement. In last weekend's coed meet at Western Illinois University, both Huskie crews came up short...