The first page of the 1989-90 women's basketball season opened Tuesday with coach Jane Albright and her team hosting Media Day at Chick Evans Field House. And the first thing that the media was given was the first page of the players' notebooks for the...

On paper, the wishbone and the run-and-shoot offenses don't have a lot in common. In many ways though, they are quite similar. Whereas the wishbone is primarily a running offense, the run-and-shoot features the pass. Both, however, are option offenses....

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...

Being involved with a program for five consecutive years, one can learn plenty. Just ask NIU soccer standout Jim Corno. Corno first came to NIU in ‘85 with all the inspirations and high hopes of a talented high school soccer player, but suddenly learned...

NIU senior Brett Tucker never thought that he would wind up playing football for the Huskies. Fortunately for Tucker, and NIU, he was wrong. The Honorable Mention All_America defensive back from neighboring Sycamore, was not heavily recruited after his...

The NIU football team assured itself of a winning record this season after it downed the Temple Owls 20-17 Saturday in Philadelphia. The Huskies' record is 6-2, and they have put together two consecutive winning seasons. Last year, NIU finished with a...

Tension, sweat, excitement and even some tears set the scene for NIU's dramatic Big Central Soccer Conference championship game against the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee on Sunday, which came down to a nail-biting finish. With the score locked 1-1,...

NIU's wrestling season is just around the corner with the Tombstone Open at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point. "In the early part of the season, I just kind of lay back and let the guys teach themselves," Huskie head coach Ed Vatch said. "I let...

Now that NIU's regular soccer season has ended, the Huskies are preparing for their most important and most challenging event of the year. NIU will play host to the Big Central Soccer Conference Tournament this Friday through Sunday at Huskie Soccer Field....

Through six games, records have not always been a good indicator of the Huskie football team's opponents. Earlier this year, NIU defeated a 1-4 Southern Illinois squad in a tough battle and two weeks ago the Huskies were beaten by a 1-3-1 Louisiana Tech...

There's a new dog in town, there are new scoreboards in the fieldhouse and there's a new look for NIU athletics. The most recent step in the upgrading of the NIU athletic program was the installment of two new scoreboards and a new scorer's table at Chick...

It looks as if NIU might soon be playing baseball again on Huskie Diamond. The diamond, which is located northwest of Huskie Stadium, has been used only by the softball team since the university dropped its baseball program in 1982. But Athletic Director...