There is nothing more unnerving, more disturbing, or more intimidating to an opposing team than seeing a rowdy student body completely dedicated to disrupting the opponent's entire game plan. The home court advantage is well known in large universities...

The coaching staff of the NIU football team will be faced with a once-a-year task after Saturday night's game at Southwest Louisiana: Saying good-bye to the seniors who will no longer wear the Huskies cardinal and black. "It will be a real mixture of...

Forget the rankings and season records. When the North Star Conference volleyball championship tournament begins Saturday at the University of Akron's Memorial Hall, each team in the NSC will start with a clean slate. It's anyone's ballgame now. The No....

Actually, Mike Burt does wear glasses. So there's nothing wrong with his eyesight before anyone questions his happiness following the NIU women's swimming squad's 169-126 loss to the University of Wisconsin. Again, the Huskie coach did see the final score,...

DePaul University's sudden announcement Thursday that its women's basketball program would leave the North Star Conference after the 1990-91 season has done little to diffuse the rivalry between DePaul and NIU. According to NIU women's basketball coach...

DePaul University officially announced its departure from the North Star Conference to form the Great Midwest Conference Thursday during a press conference at the Chicago Athletic Club. "It's official," DePaul Associate Athletics Director, Jean nsetto...

When the Huskies take their show on the road to Southwest Louisiana (4-6) for the final game of the 1990 season, they'll be entering territory that was not too friendly to them during their first visit. In 1988, the Ragin‘ Cajuns demolished NIU 45-0....

If Tuesday night's exhibition performance by the NIU men's basketball team is any indication of the type of season to come, the Huskies can expect a prosperous year. NIU hammered the Australian Sydney Kings 89-57 in front of 1,228 fans at the Chick Evans...

The NFL is wrong in its hypocritical pursuit to make the world a better place. orse yet, the league's actions send the false signal that Arizona is more racist than other states. A signal that no one should tolerate, let alone believe. If you've been...

SPRINGFIELD—The NIU and Illinois State University presidents are pushing for a strike at Sangamon State University to further their own union-busting agendas, union officials at SSU are charging. But NIU President John La Tourette insisted the allegations...

CHICAGO—For the second consecutive year, the NIU women's basketball team was picked to finish first in the North Star Conference by its eight head coaches. The announcement came Tuesday at the North Star Conference Luncheon at Ditka's restaurant in...

NIU men's basketball head coach Jim Molinari has teamed up with some of his players and Amoco Oil to get an early start in community involvement. Molinari and his caravan recently embarked on a mission to find elementary school students willing to make...