More muscle was added to the NIU Athletic Board Wednesday in the form of four resolutions passed by the board. Three of the resolutions take effect as soon as they are added to the board's policy manual. They cover conference affiliation, budget matters...

The environment, the hungry and the homeless. We hear too much, too often about these global problems, but yet we seldom do anything to help. The problems seem too enormous, and the people they affect seem too far away. We seem all too complacent. Thanks...

Three of the NIU baseball club's five scheduled games from last weekend were cancelled due to the inclement weather. The Huskies were able to fit in two games, one on Friday and one on Saturday, both of which NIU won. On the road Friday, the Huskies defeated...

Call it fortunate or lucky, but today's weather outlook for the NIU softball team improves somewhat from Monday's mid-winter conditions. Huskie head coach Dee Abrahamson and her squad face partly sunny skies with temperatures in the mid-to-upper 40s in...

Concentration and patience prevailed for the NIU women's golf team over the weekend, and the traits earned the linksters a second-place finish at the 15-team University of Indiana Invitational. Adverse weather conditions hampered the play of the entire...

Both NIU tennis teams will take one more for the road this weekend. The men's squad heads to Northwestern Sunday for its 1 p.m. match. The women cruise through Michigan for an 11 a.m. match against Eastern Michigan Saturday and a 10 a.m. match against...

"We blew the doors off both of them, to be blunt," volleyball club president Rob Uhwat said about his team's victories last weekend. NIU defeated Quincy College 15-1, 15-5, 15-9 and Illinois 15-2, 15-5, 15-4 during Saturday's triangular match at Illinois....

The Huskies are ready for dirt. After a weekend of play on an astroturf field at the Creighton Bud Light/Lady Jay Invitational, the NIU softball team is ready to play on its own field against Iowa today for a 3 p.m. doubleheader at McCormick Park. Even...

In the often unseen NIU Sports Information Office, located in a hidden portion of Chick Evans Field House, there's a new face in the crowd. Amy Taylor, 29, has filled the position of assistant sports information director for Huskie athletics, replacing...

The eight-member Star sports staff, in an effort to speed this year's baseball season along, have come up with the following forecasts. Each writer made his or her picks for each division and for a World Series champion. These selections were tabulated...

Huskie football players woke up early Saturday morning—early enough to be at Huskie Stadium by 7 a.m. The occasion was the first Saturday scrimmage of the spring season. "This was the best first-Saturday scrimmage this school has had in a long time,"...

While the Huskies didn't see anything amusing about April Fool's Day Saturday, the NIU softball squad got the last laugh. Despite losing both of its games on Saturday, the Huskies (18-3) took the initiative Sunday and found themselves playing for and...