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...

For NIU baseball coach Spanky McFarland, it's too bad the season doesn't go any longer, for his Huskies are just starting to hit their stride. After an 0-18 start, NIU has now won 10 of its last 15 games, including three out of four games last weekend...

Charlie Sadler appears to be in a dilemma. He has seen enough spring intersquad football games in his coaching career to know that they aren't particularly pleasing for the eye to see. Usually, because the team is just beginning to work out the kinks,...

Another name has been tossed into the ring for the vacant NIU men's basketball coaching job. Jerry Loyd, currently the head man at Louisiana Tech, said that he had been contacted earlier this week by NIU about taking over for Jim Molinari. But Loyd said...

NIU's softball team will get a teasing foretaste of postseason action this weekend when it takes on three-straight North Star Conference opponents. The Huskies will be at Wisconsin Green-Bay for a 3 p.m. Friday doubleheader. NIU then returns home for...

A broom might be the weapon of choice for the NIU men's tennis team at the Mid-Continent Tennis Tournament this weekend at Green Bay, Wis. The Huskies, 16-8 overall and 6-0 in conference play, plan to sweep the Mid-Continent competition. The Huskies were...

While college conference alignments are shifting as frequently as the DeKalb winds, NIU appears to be maintaining a stable course. The most recent rumors had NIU joining the Mid-American Conference on a football-only basis, along with Akron and other...

Erik Andersch had to deal with mixed emotions before he began practice for the last time with the rest of the NIU tennis team. "It's incredible, I have so many mixed feelings right now," Andersch, a graduating senior, said Wednesday as he looked upon...

NIU's women's basketball guard Yconda "E.C." Hill, who sat out the 1990-91 season due to NCAA Proposition 48, was one of 12 chosen to play at the 1991 Olympic festival July 13-16 in Los Angeles, Calif. She will be on the North Team at the four-squad tourney....

One outcome is guaranteed when the 6-22 NIU mounders head to the north side of Chicago for a 3:30 p.m. showdown Thursday. "No matter what happens," NIU skipper Joe "Spanky" McFarland said. "NIU will win." Good call by the rookie coach because it will...

NIU softball pitching ace Kristen Vandenhouten is used to getting the last laugh. Vandenhouten, a junior, has heard a lot of teasing from her opponents' dugouts. "They yell ‘Slow, slower, slowest!' because my pitches don't have a lot of strength," Vandenhouten...

Reaching the top is one thing ... staying there is a different and more difficult story altogether. In that case, the NIU women's tennis team must be an exception to the rule. For the second year in a row, the NIU netters claimed the North Star Conference...