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....

At the NCAA Central Regionals this weekend, NIU gymnasts Vicki Thimgan and Martha Unger didn't have two things: a high enough finish to advance to the NCAA Championships, and a lot of luck. Unger, competing in her third Regional competition, had a costly...

Total domination is the only way to describe the NIU soccer team's 2-0 shutout over Loyola University in its spring exhibition game Saturday. Although the offensive spark head coach Willy Roy was looking for wasn't there in the first half, the Huskies...

Two key Saturday victories powered the NIU softball squad to a second-place finish in the Western Illinois 'Winds Classic Tournament in Macomb, Ill. The Huskies scored three runs in the bottom of the seventh inning to slip past Ohio State, 8-7, in Saturday's...

NIU's men's tennis team overcame many obstacles to notch a successful weekend at Northern Iowa Univeristy. The Huskies came away with a four-match win streak and a 15-11 record. The cold and windy conditions forced play indoors. NIU faced Wisconsin-LaCrosse...

A good defense will literally mean a good offense for the NIU soccer team if Willy Roy gets his way—and he usually does. Roy will get the chance to see his high-powered offense in action this Saturday at 11 a.m. when the Huskies take on the Loyola Ramblers...

NIU will soon be going to the bank, courtesy of the AMCU Conference and the NIU women's basketball team. NIU, as a member of the Association of Mid-Continent Universities, is entitled to a share of the proceeds from the conferences' winnings in the NCAA...

Tuesday's doubleheader for the NIU softball team was a mixed bag as the Huskies lost one and then didn't win, but didn't lose, the nightcap. NIU, playing it's 1990 season home-opener(s) against Bradley couldn't hold a lead in the first game of Tuesday's...

I was sitting in my favorite DeKalb watering hole (I was in a watering hole because I hate bars), the other day when my friend Willie McGruff walked in. Yes, McGruff is related to the crime dog but refuses to discuss it, something about a pending paternity...

The good and the bad will surface in the NIU men's tennis team's only outdoor home meet of the season today at 3 p.m. Today's meet will "almost positively" be held at the Stadium Courts, which is located north of Huskie Stadium. The meet will be held...

Erik Solky, a senior on the vanishing Huskie men's gymnastics team, is a young man with a solid future surrounded by younger men with somewhat shakier prospects. The 1988 NCAA qualifier will graduate in May with a bachelor's degree in sociology, take...

Offense figures to be one of the main highlights in today's softball home-opener when NIU hosts Bradley in a 3 p.m. doubleheader. "I think it will be offensive," said 11th year NIU coach Dee Abrahamson. "There will probably be lots of opportunities to...