Freshmen Marty Engel and Matt Green will get a taste of top-level collegiate tennis for the first time at the Rolex Midwest Indoor Regional Tournament at Madison, Wis., starting today. But for junior Dustin Dobrin, the only Huskie to win a match in this...

NIU head football coach Charlie Sadler almost erupted more than once at the mistakes some of his players were making in the Huskies' 13-12 loss to Southwestern Louisiana Saturday. Sadler collected his cool because most of the errors being committed were...

Two teams will be battling for post-season honors when the NIU soccer team meets Wright State today at 1 p.m. in Dayton, Ohio. The Huskies (10-4-3 overall, 4-1-1 in the Mid-Continent Conference) need a win to keep themselves in contention for an NCAA...

"It's not easy being green,"—Kermit the Frog. "It isn't easy being a green (as in inexperienced) basketball player,"—paraphrased from NIU head basketball coach Brian Hammel. The greenest of Hammel's Huskies are a pair of freshman forwards, Marlin...

Being a student-athlete at a Division I university is not the easiest thing to do. But NIU wrestler Mel Heckman has proved that he can hit the books as hard as he can hit his opponents. Besides posting a 9-6 record last season, which included five pins,...

For the third consecutive year, the NIU soccer team is riding the bubble. But it was an ice patch that caused the cancellation of the DePaul match yesterday at Huskie Soccer Field, and the match probably will not be made up. "It was smart not to play,"...

The NIU lacrosse club finished off its fall season last weekend with a 10-4 victory over the Hoosiers of Indiana University. Despite the frigid conditions, the Huskie stickmen prevailed, putting on an exhibition in possession offense. "Ball control was...

The NIU volleyball team can relax now that regular season conference matches are behind it, right? Check again. The only thing the Huskies plan on relaxing is their coach, Pete Waite, who would like to see NIU defeat intrastate rival DePaul University...

When you think of dominant NIU women's basketball rebounders, the names Carol Owens, Tammy Hinchee and Lisa Starosta come to mind. For head coach Jane Albright-Dieterle, Angela Lockett could very well continue that "inside" tradition of rebounding greats....

For the first time this season, the NIU football team is guaranteed of not losing a game this coming weekend. But that's true only because the Huskies have the week off after dropping a 13-12 decision to Southwestern Louisiana Saturday. Head coach Charlie...

NIU soccer coach Willy Roy has had an effect on a lot of lives. While Roy was being inducted to the Chicago Sports Hall of Fame last Friday, a man climbed up to the podium and worshipped the fifth-year NIU soccer coach. "You're the greatest, Willy," the...

The football during Saturday's NIU—Southwestern Louisiana game squirmed out of players' hands as if it were a block of ice, and considering the weather (25 below-zero wind chill), it must have felt like one too. The Huskies and Southwestern Louisiana...