The NIU men's basketball team zips to Ohio this weekend to take on the team of the same name. No, not Ohio. The Zips, as in Akron Zips, are the Huskies' Saturday opponent. Akron brings a 10-6 record (2-4 in the Mid-Continent Conference) into the 5 p.m....

Don't ever let it be said that NIU's men's and women's swimming coaches are afraid of a challenge. That's why the "underdog" Huskies are taking part in Friday and Saturday's University of Illinois Illini Classic. Sessions start at 6 p.m. Friday and 9...

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...

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....

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...

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...