The more a team plays, the better a team gets is a theory shared by many. NIU's softball team has been challenged by this theory in its current string of 18 games in 11 days. This challenge will be over soon. But first, the Huskies must battle in the...

Signed, sealed, and soon to be delivered, are some future Huskie men's basketball players after Wednesday—national letter of intent day. As expected, NIU picked up two recruits who will join all-stater Mike Lipnisky, who signed with the Huskies in November....

The NIU athletic department's latest fund-raising gimmick will cost about $1,100. This seems to be a contradiction in terms considering how tight things are in Huskieland. Athletic Director Gerald O'Dell and his staff have come up with a "bright" idea...

Michael Jordan, Joe Montana and Wayne Gretzky are just a few extremely prominent names in the games they play. Over the years, they have become superstars, but not by any means of luck. To emerge as the "best of the best" is an arduous task that takes...

A no-hitter is good enough for a win, right? Wrong. Iowa held the NIU softball team hitless in game two of a doubleheader Tuesday, but came away the loser. The Huskies split the two-game set by capturing a 1-0 win in the nightcap. With runners on first...

The NIU water polo club's A-team made the most of their last fling before concentrating on player development for the rest of the season. A Chris Kerstin goal with 40 seconds left in overtime beat Purdue, 14-13, in the third-place game of the Midwestern...

"There's a new dog in town", the slogan of the Huskies men's basketball team, might soon be changed to "there are three new dogs in town." Wednsday is national letter-of-intent day when high school basketball players sign over their basketball lives to...

Members of the NIU lacrosse club didn't fare well last week dropping both of their matches—one to the Lake Forest Club and the other to the Lakeshore Club. In a close contest with Lakeshore, the Huskies made a run late in the game. However, Lakeshore...

Maybe the biggest news from the NCAA Rules Committee last week was the rule it didn't change, with the committee deciding to keep the 3-point stripe where it is. The narrow strip of paint located in an arc 19 feet, nine inches from the target, which has...

A pair of road losses at Notre Dame and Miami (Ohio) closed the traveling portion of the NIU women's tennis season on a low note. NIU, 13-11 in dual match competition, began the weekend with a 9-0 loss at Notre Dame Friday afternoon. The Huskies, who...

Weather was not the only thing "cold" at the Saturday-Sunday Indiana University Women's Golf Invitational: The NIU Huskies never did get warmed up and finished 11th in the 14-team outing. A biting wind hampered Saturday's opening 36-hole effort with NIU...

With the taste of victory on the tip of its tongues, NIU's softball team was poisoned with a mouthful of disappointment on two late-inning comebacks from guest Adelphi University Monday. NIU (10-15-2) surrendered five runs after a 4-1 lead in game one....