Monday, Nov. 5 marks a big day for 32 collegiate soccer teams across the country. At 12 p.m., the NCAA selection committee will release its picks for the 1990 NCAA Soccer Tournament. The day is notoriously known to uncross the fingers of NIU soccer fans,...

If NIU women's swimming and diving coach Mike Burt and his team had their way, the 1990-91 season would have already started. "We are anxious to get started," Burt said. "This past week we've been practicing twice a day and that gets to be a drag so we're...

A Mid-Continent championship may not be as good as getting an NCAA bid, but NIU head soccer coach Willy Roy said anything can happen. Although the Huskies have a 12-5-2 record, University of Saint Louis head coach Joe Clarke already ruled out NIU as a...

So much attention is focused on NIU's head baseball coach, Joe "Spanky" McFarland, that the others involved in the revival of the baseball program get shoved under the rug at times. Yet, the rest of McFarlands' gang plays a prominent role in the rebuilding...

Not many volleyball teams could survive if they lost a fourth of their team to injuries. At best, the squad's performance would be deeply in trouble. Especially if those players were regular contributors to the team. NIU is facing that problem right now,...

Even though the final record is only 6-12-0, the NIU field hockey squad can look back on this campaign and use it as a positive incentive for 1991. The Huskies closed out the year winning two of their last three, and most impressive, their final weekend...

There were a few more spectators than usual at Chick Evans Field House Saturday for the NIU women's volleyball victory. The only difference was these spectators saw the NIU victory over Wisconsin-Green Bay from the bench, not from the stands. Senior standout...

It wasn't supposed to happen, but the NIU soccer team captured the Mid-Continent championship in its league debut. The Huskies clinched the title by beating Wisconsin-Green Bay 2-1 with Willy Roy Jr. scoring the game-winning goal with 51 seconds remaining...

ST. LOUIS, MO._ A Billiken hat-trick left the handful of Huskie soccer faithfuls in St. Louis with little to cheer about Friday night. Along with NIU's inability to get on the scoreboard for only the first time this season, Saint Louis University used...

Volleyball momentum usually swings like a pendulum-sometimes it's up and sometimes down. Unfortunately, NIU has recently seen the downside of the swing against a tough University of Illinois-Chicago squad Tuesday. This weekend, the Huskies look to swing...

Playing in the backfield behind NIU quarterback Stacey Robinson, the fullback and the halfbacks are not as noticed by the fans as their signal caller may be. But what most of the fans do not know is that they play the most important part in the offense...

With visions of a post-season berth on the line, the NIU soccer team will be parading in Billiken country tonight. The Huskies travel to Saint Louis University to face the 11th-ranked Billikens in what could be the biggest game of the season for NIU....