Total domination is the only way to describe the NIU soccer team's 2-0 shutout over Loyola University in its spring exhibition game Saturday. Although the offensive spark head coach Willy Roy was looking for wasn't there in the first half, the Huskies...

A good defense will literally mean a good offense for the NIU soccer team if Willy Roy gets his way—and he usually does. Roy will get the chance to see his high-powered offense in action this Saturday at 11 a.m. when the Huskies take on the Loyola Ramblers...

NIU will soon be going to the bank, courtesy of the AMCU Conference and the NIU women's basketball team. NIU, as a member of the Association of Mid-Continent Universities, is entitled to a share of the proceeds from the conferences' winnings in the NCAA...

Tuesday's doubleheader for the NIU softball team was a mixed bag as the Huskies lost one and then didn't win, but didn't lose, the nightcap. NIU, playing it's 1990 season home-opener(s) against Bradley couldn't hold a lead in the first game of Tuesday's...

I was sitting in my favorite DeKalb watering hole (I was in a watering hole because I hate bars), the other day when my friend Willie McGruff walked in. Yes, McGruff is related to the crime dog but refuses to discuss it, something about a pending paternity...

Offense figures to be one of the main highlights in today's softball home-opener when NIU hosts Bradley in a 3 p.m. doubleheader. "I think it will be offensive," said 11th year NIU coach Dee Abrahamson. "There will probably be lots of opportunities to...

The defensive line of the Huskie football squad will have to do some rebuilding this spring after the loss of a few cornerstones, namely tackles Ted Hennings and Phil Bucaro. "We have lots of work to do," defensive line coach Sheldon Herd said. "The (new)...

The good and the bad will surface in the NIU men's tennis team's only outdoor home meet of the season today at 3 p.m. Today's meet will "almost positively" be held at the Stadium Courts, which is located north of Huskie Stadium. The meet will be held...

Erik Solky, a senior on the vanishing Huskie men's gymnastics team, is a young man with a solid future surrounded by younger men with somewhat shakier prospects. The 1988 NCAA qualifier will graduate in May with a bachelor's degree in sociology, take...

Close games and a load of long-ball hitting provided positives in NIU's 2-3 showing at the Creighton University-Bud Lite Softball Invitational over the weekend. Three of the five tournament games were decided by one run with the 6-10 Huskies coming out...

The NIU women's gymnastic team didn't exactly save the best for last this weekend and, as a result, may have hurt its chances for an NCAA Central Regional bid. The Huskies won Friday's three-team State of Illinois Classic, but their team score of 185.2...

Even a rain-forced postponement can't dampen the enthusiasm of the NIU men's tennis team. Friday's rains coupled with more rain in the forecast for March 31 and the lack of available indoor facilities forced Illinois State and NIU to postpone Saturday's...