The Huskies basketball team can't afford to bask in the aftermath of its road win over Evansville. NIU's next opponent has the best record among independent schools in the country. The Wright State Raiders (15-4) have only been a Division I school for...

Records are made to be broken. Every day a new record is set somewhere in the world, but one was set very close to home by NIU's women's basketball star Carol Owens. Owens, also known as C.O., has set her share of records for the Huskies which range from...

Sometimes Huskie men's basketball coach Jim Molinari feels so strongly about something that the words and the emotion run into each other and stumble out. He says he overreacts to both victories and defeats because he wants what's best for the players...

Many things are unpredictable in life, but when the NIU women's basketball team journeyed to Illinois-Chicago the end results were about as predictable as the sun coming up tomorrow. UIC has struggled this year in the win column with a 1-15, 0-4 record,...

Chuck Ehrlich, NIU men's gymnastic coach for 17 years, said he resigned Wednesday partly because of nationwide rumors of his program's elimination. Ehrlich said the rumors began in August and dealt with the cutting of the gymnastics program to make way...

Winning can become a habit, at least according to one tired cliche. But so can losing. With Tuesday's 53-48 upset victory over Evansville, the Huskies gained perhaps their most important win of the season. More importantly, they might also have stopped...

Last night the Huskies did something that only four teams have mamaged to do in three years—beat the Evansville Aces at Roberts Stadium. The 53-48 upset victory was clinched by clutch free-throw shooting in the final minute by Donald Whiteside and Donnell...

If history repeats itself, NIU's women's basketball team can expect some strong success in the near future. Case and point: prior to Monday's 87-83 loss to Vanderbilt, the 15-3, 4-0 Huskies lost only two games. The first was an 87-84 overtime loss to...

In its constant quest to earn national respect and gain an automatic berth to the NCAA tournament, the North Star Conference has turned its volume up a notch in order to be heard. A notch? Maybe even two. Behind the new leadership of Commissioner Arnold...

It's out of the frying pan and into the fire for the Huskie basketball team. On the heels of NIU's 70-67 loss in Miami to Florida International last Saturday, the Huskies (9-8) hit the road again to face a tough 13-8 Evansville squad tonight at 7:30....

The word from Tennesee is not good. With hopes of knocking off a national powerhouse and finally gaining some Top 20 recognition, the NIU women's basketball team traveled to Vanderbilt University Monday night and came away empty...four points empty. The...

Editor's note: The following is a column written by St. Charles Chronicle sports editor Ron Zahlman during the summer of 1989. Ron was undergoing treatment for cancer at the time. He was sports editor of The Northern Star in 1983 and a graduate of NIU....