and Jeff Kirik Jim Hallihan, the top assistant basketball coach at Iowa State, has been named as a finalist for the vacant Huskie coaching job a source close to the NIU athletic department said Wednesday. Hallihan came to ISU in August 1982, which was...

The weather once again took its toll on the NIU baseball club last weekend. The Huskies' second game on Sunday against Loyola was called due to rain, but not before NIU recorded a 3-0 weekend. Saturday, the Huskies hosted the DePaul Blue Demons for a...

Evolution. The word took on several connotations at Tuesday's Spring Football Luncheon. Coach Jerry Pettibone first discussed the evolution of the Huskie football program. "We're getting better and better," Pettibone said. "We have a great weight room,...

PHILADELPHIA (AP)—Rick Sutcliffe and the Chicago Cubs kept their winning streaks alive Sunday, but it wasn't pretty. Sutcliffe improved his record to 3-0 and drove in two runs with a bases-loaded single as the Cubs won their seventh straight game, 5-3,...

Forget the broom. Give the NIU men's tennis team a vacuum cleaner. The Huskies swept their four home games this weekend, losing only one match of the 36 they played. NIU had unblemished 9-0 wins over Northeastern Illinois, Western Illinois and Augustana...

CHICAGO - Walt Weiss, returning to the lineup after missing three starts because of the flu, singled in the tie-breaking run in the ninth inning Sunday as the Oakland Athletics beat the Chicago White Sox 3-2. Terry Steinbach singled with one out in the...

NIU's women's tennis team decided to show off a bit before Saturday's Parent's Weekend crowd and did so in a big way. The Huskies soundly defeated both Bradley University (7-2) and Saint Mary's College of Indiana (8-1) to improve the season mark to 15-7....

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...