Providence College assistant coach Larry Shyatt arrived in DeKalb Wednesday night to begin formal interviews for the vacant NIU head-coaching job. Shyatt, along with Louisiana Tech head coach Jerry Loyd, who left DeKalb late Wednesday night after his...

There's no doubt in the mind of veteran NIU men's golf coach Jack Pheanis about the high caliber of competition teeing up Friday and Saturday at the Oak Club of Genoa. This weekend's Fifth Annual Miller Genuine Draft Midwestern Invitational features a...

Contrary to some beliefs, the power to withhold a release from a student-athlete is vested in an athletic director. Amidst the recent developments with freshman basketball player Mike Lipnisky and NIU's Athletic Director Gerald O'Dell, NCAA legislative...

If it's possible to neither pass nor fail a test, the NIU baseball team might qualify after Tuesday's 10-5 loss to the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Prior to the scheduled doubleheader (only one game was played due to the soggy conditions at Wisconsin),...

For NIU's softball squad, ending the season on a winning note was considered to be a necessity. The Huskies somewhat fulfilled that necessity by gaining a split at home Tuesday afternoon with non-conference foe Western Illinois. The Huskies ended the...

If NIU were to be blackballed by the Public League, as some coaches have suggested, it would lose its main source of players in the last few years. Of the Huskies' rostered players entering this season, six players had Chicago Public League ties, including...

According to several prominent Chicago Public League coaches, NIU is going to have a hard time recruiting basketball players from their league for the foreseeable future. In the wake of published reports that named three out-of-state coaches as the finalists...

An NIU athlete's freedom apparently has been denied by Athletic Director Gerald O'Dell. Freshman standout Mike Lipnisky, a member of the men's basketball team, said he requested a "release from Grant-and-Aid" from O'Dell on Monday for transfer reasons....

Joe "Spanky" McFarland will pull out the season-long measuring stick when his gang travels to take on the University of Wisconsin-Madison Tuesday. The first-year NIU baseball coach realizes that his club has won 10 of its last 15 contests, but also rationalizes...

It was almost a perfect ending for the NIU men's tennis team's long season. The tennis team joined the men's basketball team and the soccer team as Mid-Continent Conference champions in the 1990-1991 season. Also, team captain Erik Andersch was voted...

After the Huskies concluded their football season last year, the pressing question was, "Who will replace the Wishbone Wizard, quarterback Stacey Robinson?" After Saturday's defense-dominated intrasquad game, the answer is still pending. The two candiates,...

The "Wizard" will get a shot at the National Football League after all. After being shunned by the NFL in its draft two Sundays ago, former NIU Wishbone Wizard, quarterback Stacey Robinson, signed on as a free-agent halfback this weekend with the Philadelphia...