Jim Molinari still has a Challenge to face and Bullets to dodge before his NIU basketball head coaching debut. The Aurora Challenge, an exhibition team made up of former Aurora-area prep and college players, will visit Chick Evans Field House Friday to...

Reading into Saturday's season-ending contest with Cincinnati, the NIU football team has already assured itself of the best season under head coach Jerry Pettibone. The Huskies (8-2) meet the Bearcats for the first time in both school's history, and NIU...

Jim Rose, sports anchorman for the WLS nightly news broadcast, will speak at NIU Thursday at 8:00 p.m. in the S.E. meeting room of Neptune Hall. Rose joined WLS-TV in April 1982 and anchors the sports on the Eyewitness News Monday through Friday at 4...

Adversity has plagued the NIU women's swimming and diving team so far this season, despite its current record of 3-1. "Although we are 3-1," coach Mike Burt said, "I was hoping to see a little better swimming to date." A reason for the slower times of...

Coaches often talk about five year plans for building a winning athletic program. In his fifth year, NIU football coach Jerry Pettibone has successfully executed his five-year plan and, in the process, has brought the Huskies to new heights. "I expected...

Christmas came early for the 1989-90 women's basketball team this week. On Monday the Huskies signed E.C. Hill, one of the top high school guards in the country, and Tuesday it was announced the women cagers were picked to finish first in the North Star...

The NIU hockey club came out flat against DePaul University last Friday night, but recovered from a 2-0 deficit to down the Blue Demons 5-2. Stellar defensive performances were turned in by Craig Boledevich, Jeff Logan, Bill Ogigo, Keith Lucasic and Jim...

It's getting to be that time of the year. No, not the build-up to finals, but the nervous days for college coaches awaiting bids to bowl games. The obvious matchups—such as Notre Dame playing Colorado in the Orange Bowl and Michigan facing Southern...

Impact with a capital "I" is the way NIU women's basketball coach Jane Albright described her first NCAA National Letter-of-Intent signee for the 1990's, Yconda "E.C." Hill of Chicago's Whitney Young High School. A Street & Smith's First-Team All-America,...

As the only senior starter on NIU's offensive line, Joe Gucwa has been through the lean years of the Huskie football program as well as the current success. Through it all, Gucwa remained confident about the eventual growth, not only of the program, but...

The Rockets were shot down, and a goal post was pulled down in NIU's 39-27 win over Toledo Saturday afternoon. After the game, some of the 5,971 fans stormed the field, pulled down a goal post and carried it to the West Lagoon in celebration of the Huskies...

First-year NIU men's basketball coach Jim Molinari believes he got a two-for-one deal last Thursday with the signing of his first Huskie recruit in Rolling Meadows High School standout Mike Lipnisky. "We have two scholarships to work with, so our goal...