News wasn't so hot for the NIU men's and women's gymnastics teams over the weekend. The men's team, lacking depth and consistency, fell prey to the University of Iowa (271.70) and Wisconsin (260.75)—NIU compiled a score of (227.45). "We were extremely...

On the road again. That certainly sounds familiar to Jane Albright and the NIU women's basketball team. Monday night the Huskies face yet another tough task on the road, this time at the Volunteer state. NIU puts its 10-game winning streak on the line...

Even though it spent the weekend in sunny Miami, the Huskie basketball team must view the snow-covered fields of DeKalb as home sweet home. NIU dropped a 70-67 decision to the Florida International Golden Panthers Saturday night, dropping its road record...

The avalanche of snow that hit DeKalb Thursday did something the Huskies' men's basketball team was hoping to do by itself—put out the Flames. The Flames, as in the 11-6 Illinois-Chicago Flames, were scheduled to play NIU last night only to be snowbound...

Chalk up one more victory for the NIU women's basketball team. This time it was Western Illinois who succumed to the prey of the hungry Huskies in a 92-70 feast Thursday at WIU. NIU's win stretches it's winning streak to 10 and boosts its record up to...

This is great—Kevin Butler on the Chicago Power. What excitement! Shots on goal again and again. Now Chicago has an alternative to the Bulls and Blackhawks. Nonsense Robert. What am I thinking? This whole thing is one of the biggest promos in sports....

With a nine-game winning streak on the line and a No. 24 ranking in the country, the NIU's women's basketball team heads west for a "scrappy" match against state rival Western Illinois at 7:30 tonight. Although the 5-11, 2-6 Westerwinds have struggled...

The fourth time is the charm. At least that's what Huskies' coach Jim Molinari hopes as his squad, on a two-game winning streak, goes into tonight's 7:00 game against Illinois-Chicago. NIU (9-7) has had three two-game winning streaks this season but has...

Hey, I didn't pick the picture. Anyway, these are some in-context excerpts from an interview with NIU Athletic Director Gerald O'Dell about the recent NCAA convention: "I don't see any action that was taken that really dealt with reform, that really wasn't...

What if regular people were to take over the sportscasting industry? Some friends and I got to talking about this and decided that the "suits" who read the sports on television should be working in different professions. Don't get me wrong, there are...

The reform movement headed by university presidents at the 84th annual NCAA convention in Dallas attempted to rid "clean" schools, including NIU, of the public's guilt-by-association image. Public relations people will tell you that reality doesn't matter,...

NIU, for the first time, made the Associated Press women's basketball rankings Monday, just when Coach Jane Albright was wondering what her team would have to do to get in. "It's been kind of frustrating because we've been so close in recent weeks, but...