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...

Close games and a load of long-ball hitting provided positives in NIU's 2-3 showing at the Creighton University-Bud Lite Softball Invitational over the weekend. Three of the five tournament games were decided by one run with the 6-10 Huskies coming out...

The NIU women's gymnastic team didn't exactly save the best for last this weekend and, as a result, may have hurt its chances for an NCAA Central Regional bid. The Huskies won Friday's three-team State of Illinois Classic, but their team score of 185.2...

Even a rain-forced postponement can't dampen the enthusiasm of the NIU men's tennis team. Friday's rains coupled with more rain in the forecast for March 31 and the lack of available indoor facilities forced Illinois State and NIU to postpone Saturday's...

A 9-16 season record can lead to frustration for a collegiate coach, but it can also be misleading on its surface. "It was kind of frustrating in many circumstances," NIU wrestling coach Ed Vatch said, "because our record didn't look as good as some of...

Interim gymnastics coach Carlos Silvestre not only has Wednesday's meet against Illinois-Chicago on his mind, but survival as well. Not only does Silvestre, in his third week at the helm, need to worry about the program, but he also has taken the responsibitlity...

"Mo" (as in head-Huskie Jim Molinari) does know basketball. Molinari is one victory away from tying Ralph McKinzie's modern record for wins by a first-year NIU coach (16 in 1940-41). If the Huskies manage to win their remaining games, Molinari would equal...

With NIU's Monday night battle against Eastern Illinois on the line, the Huskies won it at the line. The Huskies' (15-10) hot free-throw shooting down the stretch proved to be the straw that broke the Panthers' back, as NIU scored its last 14 points at...

Senior Jenny Wendell capped her final NIU swimming season with three individual school records, two Midwest Regional titles and one Midwest Regional record at the weekend Midwest Regional Swimming and Diving Championships at SIU-Carbondale. Despite Wendell's...

An old saying states that when one's back is turned one is most vulnerable to surprise. That is exactly what happened to the NIU women's basketball team when it went to Monday's practice. Upon arriving, Coach Jane Albright told her squad some unexpected...

It seems as if there's more than flat lands in Iowa these days. And tennis is one thing NIU men's tennis coach Charles Merzbacher knows exists. This past weekend left the Huskies in a state of shock having suffered three straight shutouts. Drake University...

If Huskie Athletic Director Gerald O'Dell were a comedian, his sense of timing wouldn't get him a ticket out of First City, let alone a gig at Second City. There are no good times to announce the impending elimination of a sport, but on the scale of better...