By downing arch-rival DePaul 86-82 Thursday night, the NIU women's basketball team took the first step in its drive toward winning a North Star Conference championship. And while leading scorer Carol Owens netted a career-high 34 points to pace the Huskies,...

CEDAR FALLS, Iowa - With tonight's 94-71 loss to Northern Iowa at the Uni-Dome, the NIU men's basketball team holds a 1-5 record against Association of Mid-Continent Universities schools. An 80-79 last-second victory over Eastern Illinois at Chick Evans...

MIAMI (AP) _Aftter Randy Cross, whose 13-year career spanned the San Francisco 49ers' futility in the 1970s and their championships in the ‘80s, will retire Sunday after his third Super Bowl. Cross' announcement Wednesday surprised his teammates but...

CEDAR FALLS, Iowa - For almost every error committed by the NIU men's basketball team against Northern Iowa, the Panthers would find two ways to correct the mistake. And the final correction usually ended with a score. Bad passes, poor shot selection...

The Chicago Bears vs. the Green Bay Packers, Army Vs. Navy, Navratilova vs. Evert—NIU Vs. DePaul? Maybe the latter match up cannot be found among the premiere rivalries in sports, but the NIU women's basketball team is looking to stage a classic battle...

Although Christmas break is over, the NIU men's basketball team will be looking for two more breaks tonight. The Huskies will try to break their seven-game losing steak in Cedar Falls against Northern Iowa at 7:30 p.m., while concurrently trying to break...

NIU women's gymnastic coach Bobbie Cesarek just might be calling her squad's 1989 season The Battle of the Injuries. Because almost every gymnast is plagued with a minor injury, Cesarek is aggravated with the idea her team cannot compete at the level...

Not unlike the NIU men's basketball team, the Huskie wrestling squad is composed of many freshmen and sophomores, but only two juniors and no seniors. "We're still young," coach Ed Vatch said. "The guys are real agressive and sometimes that can lead to...

Sophomore guard Stacy Arrington will return to the NIU starting lineup Wednesday against Northern Iowa after rejoining the team three games ago from a 16-day absence. Arrington had missed four games between Dec. 18 and Jan. 3 when, after being benched...

The numbers 13 and 666 have always stirred fear among the superstitious and the devil fearing. But now there's another number that's going to cause needless terror among a different group of people. The number is 42, otherwise known as the NCAA's Proposal...

NIU women's basketball coach Jane Albright is not one to gloat over success, but one has to wonder if she is wearing a smile on the inside. Since the Huskies' 78-71 loss to Nevada-Las Vegas on Dec. 10, Albright and her crew have exorcised the word "lose"...

Talk about bright lights and big cities. The NIU women's basketball team will be making its holiday tour in some of the United States' most popular cities. Teams from all over the country—from Las Vegas to New Orleans to Champaign to Akron to Cleveland—will...