University employees might find that a few good ideas can earn them more than a paycheck by submitting those ideas and suggestions to Illinois' State Employees Suggestion Award Board. Richard Leatherwood, director of mail services for NIU, recently was...

A 7-4 season wasn't quite what the NIU football team had hoped for, especially after its 3-0 start, but the Huskies did put up a few numbers that nobody could be disappointed with. For openers, there were the 906 rushing yards accumulated by freshman...

Almost one year ago, the NIU men's swimming and diving team defeated the Wisconsin-Milwaukee Panthers at Milwaukee, Wis. One year later the Huskies will try it again, but at DeKalb. NIU hosts Milwaukee for a 6 p.m. contest today at the Anderson Hall Pool....

It was billed as the grand finale for Marshall and Rodney Taylor and the rest of the Huskies' talented senior class. It was going to be the year of the defense, where nine returnees were supposed to keep NIU in every game. And it was the year where NIU...

Wrestling coach Ed Vatch had one major impression about his squad members following the weekend's Tombstone Open at Stevens Point, Wis. His impression was that they were out of shape. "I was surprised," Vatch said. "A lot of guys are just coming to practice...

The NIU men's basketball team survived a second-half surge by the Aurora Challenge to post a 100-93 victory at West Aurora High School Monday night. Ex-Huskies Rodney Davis and Randy Norman helped the Challenge bounce back from a 20-point first-half deficit...

The Huskies came out smoking in the first half of Saturday night's exhibition game against Club Rio Claro, Brazil and built a 44-40 halftime lead, which NIU later saw disappear. A six-minute stretch of the second half, during which the Huskies couldn't...

As the NIU seniors played out the final roles of their collegiate careers Saturday, the Huskies sent out a message to the rest of the Midwest. Marshall Taylor and the rest of a senior class that led the Huskies to a 7-4 finish (NIU's second-best mark...

Sources from two Kansas newspapers said Sunday that NIU football coach Jerry Pettibone is most likely back in the race for the head coaching job at Kansas State. This comes in the wake of reports this weekend that Pettibone had been eliminated as a possible...

Houston Baptist's duo of Alfonso Rodriguez and Dawn Mulholland put on a divine first-place performance Friday night during the Second Annual Southwest Airlines/Huskie National Mixed Pairs Invitational at Chick Evans Field House. Rodriguez and Mulholland...

The conditions were wet, cold and windy, but a 15-7 win over California Bowl-bound Western Michigan Saturday warmed the hearts of head coach Jerry Pettibone and his team—as well as the 2,329 spectators who sat through the game at Huskie Stadium. NIU...