"Mo" (as in head-Huskie Jim Molinari) does know basketball. Molinari is one victory away from tying Ralph McKinzie's modern record for wins by a first-year NIU coach (16 in 1940-41). If the Huskies manage to win their remaining games, Molinari would equal...

With NIU's Monday night battle against Eastern Illinois on the line, the Huskies won it at the line. The Huskies' (15-10) hot free-throw shooting down the stretch proved to be the straw that broke the Panthers' back, as NIU scored its last 14 points at...

Senior Jenny Wendell capped her final NIU swimming season with three individual school records, two Midwest Regional titles and one Midwest Regional record at the weekend Midwest Regional Swimming and Diving Championships at SIU-Carbondale. Despite Wendell's...

An old saying states that when one's back is turned one is most vulnerable to surprise. That is exactly what happened to the NIU women's basketball team when it went to Monday's practice. Upon arriving, Coach Jane Albright told her squad some unexpected...

It seems as if there's more than flat lands in Iowa these days. And tennis is one thing NIU men's tennis coach Charles Merzbacher knows exists. This past weekend left the Huskies in a state of shock having suffered three straight shutouts. Drake University...

The Northern Illinois Huskies men's basketball team took a chair and a whip to another group of ferocious felines Saturday night, beating the Chicago State Cougars 63-55 behind ringmaster Donald Whiteside's 16 points. The Huskies improved their 1989-90...

It's official. The NIU women's basketball team has reached its first long-term goal of the season by clinching first place in the North Star Conference. NIU pushed its record to 22-4 and 11-0 in the conference after beating up NSC foe Illinois-Chicago...

Losing by 58 points is no laughing matter, just ask the UIC team. But losing three seniors from a Top 25 team isn't all that great either. Even though Sunday's game at Chick Evans Field House wasn't the last home game for the NIU women's basketball team,...

If Huskie Athletic Director Gerald O'Dell were a comedian, his sense of timing wouldn't get him a ticket out of First City, let alone a gig at Second City. There are no good times to announce the impending elimination of a sport, but on the scale of better...

NIU coach Jim Molinari would like to see an addition made to the impressive list of DeKalb tourist attractions—the world's largest dog house. uskie fans may know this newest member of the seven modern wonders of the world as Chick Evans Field House,...

The NIU Hockey Club had a successful past weekend by beating Bradley (6-5) on Friday night, then picking up a victory over Wisconsin-Platteville on Saturday. In their division, the Huskies finished with a 15-3 record, good for a second place finish. The...

As expected, Huskie Athletic Director Gerald O'Dell recommended to the Athletic Board Wednesday that men's gymnastics be eliminated for lack of support and fiscal responsibility. "Regardless of emotion or sentimentality, we need to deal with the facts,"...