In its constant quest to earn national respect and gain an automatic berth to the NCAA tournament, the North Star Conference has turned its volume up a notch in order to be heard. A notch? Maybe even two. Behind the new leadership of Commissioner Arnold...

It's out of the frying pan and into the fire for the Huskie basketball team. On the heels of NIU's 70-67 loss in Miami to Florida International last Saturday, the Huskies (9-8) hit the road again to face a tough 13-8 Evansville squad tonight at 7:30....

The word from Tennesee is not good. With hopes of knocking off a national powerhouse and finally gaining some Top 20 recognition, the NIU women's basketball team traveled to Vanderbilt University Monday night and came away empty...four points empty. The...

Editor's note: The following is a column written by St. Charles Chronicle sports editor Ron Zahlman during the summer of 1989. Ron was undergoing treatment for cancer at the time. He was sports editor of The Northern Star in 1983 and a graduate of NIU....

News wasn't so hot for the NIU men's and women's gymnastics teams over the weekend. The men's team, lacking depth and consistency, fell prey to the University of Iowa (271.70) and Wisconsin (260.75)—NIU compiled a score of (227.45). "We were extremely...

On the road again. That certainly sounds familiar to Jane Albright and the NIU women's basketball team. Monday night the Huskies face yet another tough task on the road, this time at the Volunteer state. NIU puts its 10-game winning streak on the line...

Even though it spent the weekend in sunny Miami, the Huskie basketball team must view the snow-covered fields of DeKalb as home sweet home. NIU dropped a 70-67 decision to the Florida International Golden Panthers Saturday night, dropping its road record...

Chalk up one more victory for the NIU women's basketball team. This time it was Western Illinois who succumed to the prey of the hungry Huskies in a 92-70 feast Thursday at WIU. NIU's win stretches it's winning streak to 10 and boosts its record up to...

This is great—Kevin Butler on the Chicago Power. What excitement! Shots on goal again and again. Now Chicago has an alternative to the Bulls and Blackhawks. Nonsense Robert. What am I thinking? This whole thing is one of the biggest promos in sports....

The avalanche of snow that hit DeKalb Thursday did something the Huskies' men's basketball team was hoping to do by itself—put out the Flames. The Flames, as in the 11-6 Illinois-Chicago Flames, were scheduled to play NIU last night only to be snowbound...

With a nine-game winning streak on the line and a No. 24 ranking in the country, the NIU's women's basketball team heads west for a "scrappy" match against state rival Western Illinois at 7:30 tonight. Although the 5-11, 2-6 Westerwinds have struggled...

The fourth time is the charm. At least that's what Huskies' coach Jim Molinari hopes as his squad, on a two-game winning streak, goes into tonight's 7:00 game against Illinois-Chicago. NIU (9-7) has had three two-game winning streaks this season but has...