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...

If the NIU softball team plans to return to the Lady Redbird Classic next year, the players will have a much different philosophy: losing is everything. It seemed that losing gave the Huskies a winning advantage, citing their second-place trophy for a...

In the 1990s Land of the Giants with aircraft carriers in the paint and seven-foot lottery draft picks on the wing, NIU's scrappy 5-10, 150-pound senior guard Donald Whiteside always elbowed the big boys for equal time. You know, crusades for "short people."...

Even with the NIU baseball team's record at 0-14, the last thing the Huskies' head coach Joe "Spanky" McFarland has to worry about is his players' confidence level heading into Monday's doubleheader home opener against Chicago State. "I know we can definitely...

The more things change, the more they ... well, you know the rest of that axiom, and by now, so must the NIU baseball team. As days become weeks, the Huskies' dubious, season-long winless streak continues to grow and rankle. Last weekend, the Huskies...

More than a single thorn would be necessary to mar the otherwise rosy season of the NIU women's gymnastic team. But that one thorn can still be difficult to ignore. NIU headed into its last regular season meet—the Mississippi Valley Championships—with...

March, 1991 will certainly become a permanent fixture in the mind of NIU women's basketball guard Lisa Foss. Just 18 days after Foss was named the Player of the Year in the North Star Conference and one day after the senior collected All-NWIT honors,...

After going winless in its first nine games, the NIU baseball team has waited long enough to taste its first victory. NIU found out Tuesday it would have to wait at least one more day. After observing the poor-playing surface of their home field Monday...

With this season marking the swan song for seniors on the NIU men's basketball team, the main focus for these seniors is now concentrated on graduation, and life after NIU. Just as these seniors had goals for a "season to remember" with hard work on the...

The NIU baseball team originally had March 26 circled on its calendar; it was to be the day the Huskies would play the Aurora Spartans in their first home game of the year. The Huskies will still play the Spartans on Tuesday - but at Aurora's Snell Field....

The NIU soccer team's all-time second-leading goal scorer hopes to make some different types of goals come next fall. Willy Roy Jr., a senior who led the 1990 soccer team to the Mid-Continent Conference crown, decided to come back to NIU for graduate...