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...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

He's back. One of the top special teams players in the National Football League is back in uniform. A Pittsburgh Steelers' uniform. Former NIU quarterback Tim Tyrrell dressed for the Steelers' game Sunday against the Chicago Bears in Three Rivers Stadium...

"We're going to Disneyland!" shouted senior defensive linemen Ted Hennings and Phil Bucaro after Saturday's 39-27 win over Toledo in their final game at Huskie Stadium. The Huskies' eighth straight win at the "Doghouse" was equally cherished, but the...

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...

This weekend will mark the opening of Ed Vatch's fourth season at the helm of the NIU wrestling squad when the Huskies travel to the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point for the 13th Annual Tombstone Invitational. The Huskies, coming off last year's...

There was a time in the not-too-distant past when I found myself wondering if there were an uncharted island where we could send Jim McMahon and his ego—a place where we would never hear from the "punky QB" again. For a while I thought San Diego was...

The NIU hockey club looks to continue its winning ways this Friday (9:30 p.m.) by taking on DePaul at Riverview Ice Rink in Rockford. NIU is currently 5-1 going into the weekend. Last Saturday, the hockey club knocked off the Milwaukee School of Engineering...

The Huskies play host to a somewhat underrated Toledo squad Saturday in the season's home finale at Huskie Stadium. Toledo comes into the 1 p.m. game with a 5-4 record and are in the hunt for a share of the Mid-American Conference title. The Rockets and...