After winning the conference tournament, NIU's soccer team slipped into a mild depression Monday when the door to a bid in the NCAA tournament was slammed in its face. The Huskies finished third in the Midwest Region with a 15-4-1 record. Despite the...

Visiting teams have not had much success winning games at "The Doghouse," a.k.a. Huskie Stadium, lately as NIU has won 10 of its last 11 games at home. Last year, the Huskies traveled to Cajun Field in Lafayette, La. to battle the Ragin‘ Cajuns of Southwestern...

The outcome of NIU's game against Southwestern Louisiana, as well as any hopes for a post season bowl bid, was literally in the hands of quarterback Stacey Robinson with three seconds left and his team trailing 20_17. In front of a sparse crowd of 5,604,...

NIU's 23-20 win over Southwestern Louisiana might have been the best football game nobody saw in the last 10 or 15 years. Well, maybe saying "nobody" is exaggerating, but not by much. Saturday's game had been billed as an all-or-nothing shootout in which...

"Revenge is in the air," DePaul volleyball coach Anna Marassa said about the her Blue Demon team coming to Chick Evans Field House tonight at 7 p.m. to face NIU in the final North Star Conference match for the two rivals. The NIU volleyball team, 2-3...

GLEN ELLYN, Ill.—If the NIU men's basketball players accomplished nothing else here Thursday, they at least should be in better shape. With a depleted unit of 11 players to work with, new NIU coach Jim Molinari brought his Huskies back to his alma mater—Glenbard...

Revenge will be the driving factor for the Huskie football squad this Saturday. After suffering a 45-0 loss to Southwestern Louisiana last year, NIU looks to turn the tables on the Ragin‘ Cajuns beginning at 1 p.m. in Huskie Stadium. "If there's ever...

One of the most popular questions on campus these days seems to be one that includes the words "NIU football team" and "bowl". Does NIU have a legitimate shot at playing in the postseason? Nobody can really be sure until the bowl pairings are announced....

In what promises to be a classic showdown, the nation's first- and second-ranked rushing quarterbacks will square off Saturday at Huskie Stadium. NIU's defense will take on one of its sternest challenges of the season when the Huskies face off against...

Going into Wednesday's season-opening meet, NIU men's swimming coach Dave Clark knew he had better depth than Loyola University. Now he knows exactly how much better. The Huskies opened the 1989-90 season sailing to a 140-70 dual-meet win over Loyola...

Weaving through a maze of defensive players is a formidable task for any option quarterback. Entering the 1989 season, NIU QB Stacey Robinson faced not only that challenge, but also the added burden of dodging the shadow of his predecessor—Marshall...

The key word for this year's NIU women's basketball season is teamwork. After relying on many individual performances last year because of a small squad, the team has added some depth this season and should really be able to employ the full concept of...