NIU students may be facing another new ticket policy for men's home basketball games in the very near future. The Long-Range Planning Committee of the Athletic Board is currently working on a plan that would allow students to acquire tickets for all men's...

One of the unwritten rules of college football is that you don't say anything that can be considered negative about an upcoming opponent. Florida Gators coach Steve Spurrier, and some of his players, apparently don't mind breaking the rules when talking...

Eastern Illinois University has a jinx on the NIU soccer team. That's why the Huskies are glad to be playing the Panthers at the friendly confines of Huskie Soccer Field Sunday at 1 p.m. where they own a 19-2-3 record. "There's a lot of hatred spilled...

There was a bad omen going into yesterday's match against Illinois-Chicago, but the NIU soccer team overcame it. Dusty Showers was suspended for the match for collecting five yellow cards; Jim Hall and Per Ekholdt were sick; and John Lechner was injured....

Has anyone seen head gymnastics' coach Bobbie Cesarek lately? With NIU's gymnastic season still months away (mid-January) she is probably at the golf course, right? Wrong. Between running pre-season practices, recruiting and filling out dreaded NCAA reports,...

Heard the one about Pete and Repeat? Forget the grade school joke about the two boys being out on a boat ... NIU's head volleyball coach Pete Waite would like "Repeat" to stay right next to him this weekend. Waite and the Huskies (15-3) hope to duplicate...

NIU is going Duck hunting today as the University of Oregon challenges the Huskies at Normal. "Every match is going to be pretty tough," said head coach Chuck Merzbacher. "It may come down to the doubles, and that's what we're doing well right now." Up...

The NIU men's tennis team received a tremendous boost this year with the addition of freshman Marty Engel. Engel is playing in the No. 1 flight against the best the other schools have to offer. And he is beating them. Engel is 5-0 with two tournament...

After one and a half months of walk-on tryouts, professional scout practices and intersquad scrimmages, the NIU baseball team can rest easy. That is, the finalized baseball team. Head coach Joe "Spanky" McFarland closed out the fall campaign by making...

St. Louis, Mo., is historically known as the "gateway to the West." Now, the NIU field hockey team hopes the city home to the Arch will be the gateway to a few victories. The Huskies (1-8-1) will travel to Saint Louis University this weekend to play three...

In soccer, only inches separate victory from defeat. "There's only one match we lost legitimately," NIU coach Willy Roy said at roughly the halfway point of the season. That one match Roy is referring to was a 1-0 loss to then—No. 9 Hartwick. "It was...

The first official dribble should come around 3:00 p.m. Tuesday at Chick Evans Field House. Official because basketball teams can officially begin practicing today in preparation for the 1991-92 season. For NIU's men's basketball team, the coming season...