Although there are two months until basketball season, misfortune already has hit the NIU men's basketball team in the form of academic ineligibility. Sophomore forward Mike Hidden has been declared ineligible for the beginning of the 1989 basketball...

Not only has NIU golfer Rick Stewart received recognition for his talents, he's made Huskie history. The NIU junior became the first Huskie to be awarded Athlete of the Week status by the Association of Mid-Continent Universities—NIU's new men's conference...

Going into this Saturday's game with a Kansas State team that has failed to win in 29 straight games, one would think that NIU might look past the Wildcats to next week's game with Western Illinois. "We're not going to take them lightly," defensive lineman...

"We're a young team and a little inexperienced, but it's only a matter of time before we mature into a good Top 20 team." If the aforementioned quote sounds familiar, it's because it has appeared many times in the soccer articles on the pages of The Northern...

NIU soccer will host Illinois State Wednesday in an attempt to improve on a 2-4-2 lifetime record against the Redbirds. Although ISU is off to a slow start (1-4-0), NIU coach Willy Roy still believes the Redbirds could be a dangerous threat to NIU (4-1-1)...

Even though the Huskies did not have a game to prepare for this past Saturday, the pads were still popping at practice last week for the NIU football team. With the first two games under their belts, the Huskies hope to get back on the winning track when...

Making strides has been the main goal for the Huskie volleyball team in the beginning, but now is the time to win. The NIU team will take its 1-5 record into Peoria, Ill., to face the 4-11 Bradley Braves Tuesday for a 7 p.m. match. The series between...

Scoring runs wins ballgames. But the NIU softball team's one run in 28 innings of play over the weekend left the Huskies winless in their own tournament. Illinois State and Wisconsin-Parkside played the role of spoiler for NIU. The Redbirds claimed the...

In 1967, both NIU and Illinois State University were seeking new presidents. Although the legislature had created a new Board of Regents to govern the two institutions after July 1, 1967, the search was conducted by the Board of Governors of State Colleges...

Good teams bounce back from tough losses. That is exactly what the NIU soccer team did on Sunday in shutting out the defending Big Central Soccer Conference champ Quincy College by a score of 3-0 at the Huskie Soccer Field. The Huskies started out slow...

Both the men's and women's golf teams tee it up this weekend in their respective tournaments. Head coach Jack Pheanis and his men's team open the fall season with Friday through Sunday's (Sept. 15-17) Association of Mid-Continent Univerities/University...

From one champion to another—that's the story of the NIU soccer team's week. On Wednesday, the Huskies suffered a heart-breaking loss to defending national champion Indiana University. In the 1-0 overtime loss, the controversial call that appeared to...