NIU women's basketball coach Jane Albright is also being considered for another job. The University of Arizona has contacted NIU athletic director Gerald O'Dell about the seven-year NIU coach succeeding June Olkowski, who resigned after a four-year stint....

The NIU baseball team is desperate. Its head coach, Joe McFarland, hopes his lose-weary club's furious search for victory will be over by the weekend's conclusion. The 0-17 Huskies travel to Valparaiso to play Saturday. NIU will then make its way back...

NIU head basketball coach Jim Molinari's name has surfaced in reports regarding the vacant head-coaching position at Texas A&M University. Texas A&M Athletic Director John David Crow reportedly talked to Molinari in Indianapolis this weekend where...

NIU's softball team will find out how friendly the home field will be in Thursday's home opener against Indiana State (2:00 p.m. at the Huskie softball diamond). The game will mark the fourth meeting between the two clubs, who are scheduled to meet five...

Zero and 17. What else is there to say about the NIU baseball team which has yet to leave the starting blocks? The Huskies need to win just one game to get the monkey off their backs, yet in this 43-game season, a win seems as distant as an Iraqi victory...

Any coach will tell you that after a team loses several games in a row, it no longer plays to win. When that happens, coaches say, losing becomes expected and contagious. If losing is infectious, it's an epidemic on NIU's baseball team. For the seventeenth...

Two NIU women gymnasts will be leaving a lifetime of gymnastics behind them when they board the plane for Auburn, Ala., Thursday. The NCAA Central Regional Championships Saturday at Auburn University is the last time seniors Martha Unger and Laurie Vitallo...

Spring: The time when a young man's fancy turns to thoughts of ... baseball. Until recently, if you were a baseball fan at NIU you had to make do with televised Cubs and Sox games. But last year, the powers-that-be at NIU decided to drop the men's gymnastics...

In the world of women's gymnastics, earning respect and notoriety takes more than NIU's No. 15 national team ranking and a 22-1 record. The principle is simple: Having one great season is good for the team. Having consistently great seasons is good for...

NIU's baseball team had thought its Monday home-opening doubleheader against the Chicago State Cougars would feature its first victory in 1991. The victory-deprived Huskies had thought that because they played the Cougars so competitively in a March 21...

When Greg O'Neil started playing in tennis tournaments at age 12, he got "trounced." O'Neil began to play tennis at a relatively old age (in tennis standards) of 11. "My parents saw tennis on TV, and they liked it," he said. "It's something they wanted...

Lisa Foss isn't the only member of the NIU women's basketball team to try out for the Olympic team. NIU's assistant coach Kamie Ethridge, former University of Texas standout, tried out and competed on the 1988 Olympic gold-medal winning women's basketball...