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Sun doesn’t shine for Huskies

By Wes Swietek | January 29, 1990

Even though it spent the weekend in sunny Miami, the Huskie basketball team must view the snow-covered fields of DeKalb as home sweet home. NIU dropped a 70-67 decision to the Florida International Golden Panthers Saturday night, dropping its road record...

Huskies warm up with Western

By Carl Ackerman | January 26, 1990

Chalk up one more victory for the NIU women's basketball team. This time it was Western Illinois who succumed to the prey of the hungry Huskies in a 92-70 feast Thursday at WIU. NIU's win stretches it's winning streak to 10 and boosts its record up to...

Butler – a ‘Power’ promo

January 26, 1990

This is great—Kevin Butler on the Chicago Power. What excitement! Shots on goal again and again. Now Chicago has an alternative to the Bulls and Blackhawks. Nonsense Robert. What am I thinking? This whole thing is one of the biggest promos in sports....

Sudden snowfall postpones UIC basketball game

By Wes Swietek | January 26, 1990

The avalanche of snow that hit DeKalb Thursday did something the Huskies' men's basketball team was hoping to do by itself—put out the Flames. The Flames, as in the 11-6 Illinois-Chicago Flames, were scheduled to play NIU last night only to be snowbound...

Winning streak at 9 as NIU takes 24 ranking to WIU

By Carl Ackerman | January 25, 1990

With a nine-game winning streak on the line and a No. 24 ranking in the country, the NIU's women's basketball team heads west for a "scrappy" match against state rival Western Illinois at 7:30 tonight. Although the 5-11, 2-6 Westerwinds have struggled...

Cold Flames look king to heat up

By Wes Swietek | January 25, 1990

The fourth time is the charm. At least that's what Huskies' coach Jim Molinari hopes as his squad, on a two-game winning streak, goes into tonight's 7:00 game against Illinois-Chicago. NIU (9-7) has had three two-game winning streaks this season but has...

Just the facts, Mr. O’Dell; all anyone wants is facts

By Joe Bush | January 25, 1990

Hey, I didn't pick the picture. Anyway, these are some in-context excerpts from an interview with NIU Athletic Director Gerald O'Dell about the recent NCAA convention: "I don't see any action that was taken that really dealt with reform, that really wasn't...

Women rank in AP poll

January 24, 1990

NIU, for the first time, made the Associated Press women's basketball rankings Monday, just when Coach Jane Albright was wondering what her team would have to do to get in. "It's been kind of frustrating because we've been so close in recent weeks, but...

Off with the ties folks; let’s see some T-shirts

January 24, 1990

What if regular people were to take over the sportscasting industry? Some friends and I got to talking about this and decided that the "suits" who read the sports on television should be working in different professions. Don't get me wrong, there are...

NIU votes ‘Yea’ on NCAA issues

By Joe Bush | January 24, 1990

The reform movement headed by university presidents at the 84th annual NCAA convention in Dallas attempted to rid "clean" schools, including NIU, of the public's guilt-by-association image. Public relations people will tell you that reality doesn't matter,...

Owens’ points, Hinchee’s boards capture Huskie win

By Steve Dennis | January 23, 1990

Monday night turned out to be an evening of streaks that started at the free-throw line and ended up in the win column. Kris Weis came up big at the free-throw line. The senior hit 6-of-6 from the charity stripe to extend her free-throw shooting streak...

La Tourette keeps a watchful eye over NIU athletics

By Joe Bush | January 23, 1990

"It must be controlled from the top. I'm merciless on this: if it's not working, it's the president's fault."—Rev. Theodore M. Hesburgh, former president of Notre Dame and co-chairman of a $2 million intercollegiate athletics trouble-shooting commission....