Members of the NIU women's basketball team have selected Lisa Foss and Toby Meeks as co-captains for the upcoming season. Already in leadership positions as seniors, the two guards will be directing the team on and off the floor, a task that Meeks compares...

NIU men's tennis coach Chuck Merzbacher was telling the truth when he said this past weekend's Intercollegiate Tennis Coaches Association/Rolex Indoor Regional Championship featured only the best collegiate players. That's why the Huskie boss can accept...

It was a weekend of nail-biting, come-from-behind victories that created the perfect ending to an already successful season for the NIU volleyball squad. But as far as head volleyball coach Pete Waite and his team are concerned, it's only the beginning....

It's not that NIU women's swimming coach Mike Burt is an easy person to please, the Huskie swim boss is simply seeing some bright spots. For openers, his Huskies did win Friday's dual meet with the University of Northern Iowa by a 65-48 margin to even...

Oh, for what could have been. Those are the words that will be echoing throughout the heads of NIU's football team which came within two yards of pulling out a come-from-behind victory Saturday. Instead, the Huskies slipped to 6-4 by losing a 24-20 decision...

Just use the old good news/bad news expression to sum up the NIU women's tennis team's effort at the Intercollegiate Tennis Coaches Association/Rolex Midwest Women's Indoor Regional Championship Friday. The good news was the Huskies got a pleasant surprise...

For the NIU wrestling program, this past weekend's University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point Tombstone Open was an aptly named invitational. Drawing sponsorship from Tombstone Pizza, the two-day open meet was just like its namesake for the Huskies. Some of...

For the "new" NIU women's basketball team, Thursday's exhibition game at Chick Evans Field House produced much of the same "old" results as the Huskies humiliated Norway's best, 97-48. Propelled by the hanging of the 1989-90 North Star Conference Championship...

Thursday night's 97-48 victory by the NIU women's basketball team left the Norwegian National team and their head coach Roy Porter totally impressed, totally intimidated, and totally beaten. Porter had nothing but praise for the Huskies who quickly dictated...

Second-year men's tennis coach Charles Merzbacher will have mixed feelings as he leads his vastly improving Huskies into the Rolex Midwest Championship Invitationals at South Bend, Ind., Friday. Why the mixed feelings? Merzbacher has improved his team...

When the Huskies run onto the football field before Saturday's game with East Carolina, they will be feeling something they haven't felt before or during a game all season—grass under their feet. "When you're used to playing on artificial turf and you...

NIU men's basketball coach Jim Molinari turned to his past when presenting the future at Wednesday's men's basketball media luncheon. Legendary former DePaul coach Ray Meyer was the special guest as Molinari unveiled the 1990-91 basketball squad to the...