According to head gymnastics coach Bobbie Cesarek, winning is not everything. However, based on recent performances the NIU women's gymnastic team is the favorite to clinch yet another win in Saturday's 1 p.m. triangular at Chick Evans Field House. Contrary...

Another Lisa Foss "first-half show" propelled the NIU women's basketball team past the UIC Flames, but it was Denise Lipnisky's 18-footer at the buzzer that iced the celebration. The 915 fans that braved the brisk January temperatures of DeKalb witnessed...

Dubbed the pre-DePaul game, the NIU women's basketball team (11-4, 4-0) will try to extinguish the UIC Flames for the ninth consecutive time Thursday in a 7 p.m. battle at Chick Evans Field House. All NIU eyes must focus on a UIC team that comes to DeKalb...

NIU women's tennis coach Patty Groth is really looking forward to this weekend. It hasn't been a rough week at work, it's just that this weekend is the spring portion of the Huskies' 1990-91 schedule. And it all begins with the University of Notre Dame's...

With the winning ways established by the NIU men's basketball team this season, it is not surprising that the recognition and the honors are starting to add up. NIU forward Donnell Thomas, who performed magnificently against DePaul, Wisconsin-Green Bay,...

The helmets and the shoulder pads are in storage, the Huskie Stadium turf is covered with snow, the players go about their business without worrying about two-a-days. Yet these are the days when the future success of NIU's football team will be determined....

Mats Persson got a key win for himself in NIU's men's tennis meet against Purdue, but his efforts did not help Huskies' coach Charles Merzbacher get his first Big Ten win. The Huskies suffered a 6-3 setback to the Boilermakers, the same margin they lost...

For apparently the first time since 1972, NIU's men's basketball team has received recognition in the AP Top-25 poll. The 13-2 Huskies earned five votes in the "others receiving votes" category. The five votes place NIU at the 41st spot in the weekly...

After two losses last weekend, the NIU women's swimming team fell to 2-4. The Huskies lost a Friday dual meet at the University of Notre Dame, 172-122, and also came up short in a 167-118 Saturday afternoon home meeting with the University of Iowa. There...

In true swimming parlance, NIU's men's squad was "out-touched," 152-148 by the University of Notre Dame. Although the Huskies took first place in nine of 16 events, the "luck" of the Irish persisted in Friday's meet at UND's Rolfs Aquatic Center. Depth...

Believe it or not, there's only 45 days left for NIU baseball coach Joe "Spanky" McFarland to get his gang ready for the 1991 season. March 9th is the official date that McFarland will display his revival of an NIU baseball program that has been defunct...

Illinois Benedictine College (14-4), a Division III school, came into the Chick Evans Field House Monday night and took full advantage of a tired NIU men's basketball team to nearly pull off what would have been a major upset. NIU (13-2) barely hung on...