Tuesday night's anticipated showdown between NIU (12-1) and DePaul (8-6), lived up to its billing and became a showcase for the Huskies' Donnell Thomas. In NIU's 70-61 win, Thomas showed the Blue Demons, the SportsChannel TV audience, and the record-setting...

This past Monday evening, the Huskie football team was finally introduced to its new head coach Charlie Sadler in an informal players-staff meeting. After the meeting, players said their coach had one prevalent message: Off-the-field high jinks will not...

Once you've accomplished everything imaginable, what else can you possibly do? Faced with this dilemma, Charlie Sadler moved to DeKalb. Not to corn-gaze: rather, to become the head coach of the NIU football team. Sadler, an assistant coach of 13 years,...

The NIU men's basketball team has a big game with a tough opponent coming up—but first they have to play DePaul. Although Tuesday night's 7 p.m. game against the Blue Demons has been receiving all the attention of the media and fans, Huskies coach Jim...

NIU's men's swimming team kept itself busy over break by participating in a swim meet that took place in very natural conditions. Fighting conditions only a surfer could love, NIU edged the Swedish National Team in the relay title of the Atlantic Ocean...

Rookie seasons can be filled with many unpleasantries, but for cheerleading coach Derek Ramel, his first NIU season was anything but unpleasant. His coaching efforts launched the 18 NIU cheerleaders into the nation's 10th-ranked squad at the NCA National...

In 1967 a freshman football player from a small town in Texas played for a young coach at Oklahoma who was then in his second season of collegiate coaching. That coach, Jerry Pettibone, went on to become the head man at NIU for five seasons before leaving...

A landslide of changes are expected in the near future for the athletic departments of many Division I Schools, including NIU. The annual NCAA convention held last week approved numerous Division I rule changes supported by the NCAA Presidents Commission....

A 65-37 setback to Minnesota was the last time the NIU men's basketball team lost. At the time, Christmas was still 24 days away. Ten straight victories later, the Huskies find themselves with one of the best records in college basketball with an 11-1...

After a dismal start to the holiday break, the NIU women's basketball team has strung together a couple of key victories. Although the Huskies went 3-4 over the month-long stretch, the two consecutive wins have come against North Star Conference opponents....

In conjunction with the 85th Annual NCAA Convention, the Mid-Continent Conference Council of Delegates voted unanimously to sponsor and conduct championships for women's athletics starting in 1992-93. The announcement was made by league President David...

It may seem a little early, but the NIU Silverette dance squad has already made a New Year's resolution. In fact, the entire squad is in on this one. The Silverettes hope to "knock ‘em dead" in their first-ever appearance at a national competition....