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....

Look for talk about postseason play to start surfacing around the NIU volleyball team—if it hasn't already begun. With the sweeping victories over North Star Conference foes Akron (15-3, 15-2, 16-14) and Cleveland State (15-7, 15-0, 15-7) over the weekend,...

If there's a quarterback controversy regarding the NIU football team, it certainly doesn't stem from any indecision on the part of the head coach. Charlie Sadler emphatically said Monday that Stacey McKinney will be the starting quarterback Saturday at...

The Huskie women's golf team may have ended their season on a somewhat sour note, but still own the bragging rights of tallying its best fall record ever. With a grand total of 69 wins, six losses and one tie accumulated in six tournaments this season,...

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...

Willy Roy is making wholesale changes to find solutions to his offensive problems. The Huskies, 7-3-1, are looking for more point production after scoring only one goal in all three of their losses against Hartwick, Southern Methodist and Akron. "We don't...

NIU's Homecoming game Saturday afternoon against Western Michigan at Huskie Stadium wasn't artistic. "There were a lot of mistakes out there," WMU head football coach Al Molde said. "That's my first thought. I just don't think we were sharp." Though the...

The NIU volleyball team upped its North Star Conference ledger to 2-0 after Saturday night's match against the Cleveland State Vikings. In front of 236 fans at the Chick Evans Field House, the Huskie spikers defeated the Vikings in three straight games:...

It was a good Homecoming for Andre Wallace. As a result, it was a bad Homecoming for NIU. Western Michigan's Wallace, a native of Evanston who was recruited by the Huskies, ravaged NIU with 162 rushing yards Saturday and the clinching touchdown as the...

Induction ceremonies for the NIU Hall of Fame took place Friday evening in the Holmes Student Center's Duke Ellington Ballroom. Former NIU gymnasts Darlene Davis Blank and Tom Kennedy, former NIU football player Gary Stearns, former NIU Sports Information...