"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...

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...

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...

A 14-2 record is tough to improve, but NIU men's swimming coach Dave Clark is optimistic as he puts his squad in the water today in a 1 p.m. meet at Anderson Pool against the Loyola Ramblers. "This should be the best team we've ever put together," Clark...

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...