The NIU baseball team has a magic number ... of sorts. After Thursday, it remains the same. NIU's magic number has been stuck on one since the beginning of the season. The number's diminishment to zero, which will occur only after the Huskies win a game,...

Now is the time to put that spring fever into some serious volleyball action. The NIU volleyball team and DeKalb's WDKB-FM radio station, B95, are sponsoring a sand volleyball tournament April 21 which is open to all NIU students and faculty as well as...

Some things, it seems, never change. This weekend the NIU softball team will continue its road trip to Illinois State for the ISU Tournament in Normal, Ill. beginning Friday. NIU has been on the road for every game this season playing out a difficult...

In terms of athlete-graduation rates, NIU fits in towards the top of the Mid-Continent Conference and the conference, in turn, falls roughly in the middle of the national average. According to numbers recently published in the Chronicle of Higher Education,...

NIU's athletic department budget, as detailed in Thursday's Northern Star, may appear to be somewhat larger than the average for state schools, but exact numbers are hard to come by. Complicating any budget comparisons is the widely differing range of...

Nine of the 16 NIU sports teams get additional travel money to go on "special trips," which account for an extra $35,000 in the budget. These special trips include the winter team's voyages and the spring break trips. Teams can only take in-season trips....

DAYTON, Ohio—Donnell Thomas earned his nickname of the "D-Train" because of his non-stop locomotion on the basketball court, but after an eventful week, Thomas lived up to his nickname by riding the tracks of an emotional roller coaster. NIU's four...

March madness in college basketball has a certain attribute, one of feverish excitement that attracts millions of fans each year. The 1991 NCAA Tournament has lived up to that excitement and now that the "Sweet Sixteen" teams in the nation have been determined,...

DAYTON, Ohio—In a season that lasted longer than anyone expected, NIU ran out of time. The Huskies, playing in a first-round NCAA Championship game against St. John's Friday, overcame their first-half jitters and a 25-point Redmen lead to stage a fierce...

If there is anyone who knows a thing or two about winning, it is the NIU women's gymnastics team. In fact, winning is about the only thing the Huskies are capable of. The 18-0 Huskies took first place in two triangulars last week and defeated Ball State...

Members of NIU's Athletic Board approved a proposal Wednesday to spend up to $22,000 out of the contingency fund (carryover) for postseason travel expenses. NIU's women's basketball squad competes in the eight-team NWIT in Amarillo, Texas, beginning Thursday....