A 33-20 loss to Toledo last Saturday left a sour taste in the mouths of the NIU football players. Nothing a little Cajun cooking can't take care of. The 4-2 Huskies will enter bayou country for a 4 p.m. match on Cajun Field Saturday against Southwestern...

The NIU women's basketball team will follow the men into the season during the Midnight Madness. Or should we say precede the men. The women will play the first 12-minute scrimmage Friday night, followed by the men's scrimmage. Then, the men will hold...

Where the Huskie football team goes, so go NIU students. At least that is what Mark Shafer, travel coordinator for Campus Activities Board, and athletic administrators are hoping for. It was recommended to Shafer that he plan a chartered bus trip for...

Don't look for a defensive struggle in the NIU Alumni/Media All-Star Basketball Game Friday night at Chick Evans Field House. The contest, part of the Midnight Madness program kicking off the beginning of the men's and women's practice season, features...

Two weeks of intense practice halfway paid off as the NIU volleyball team posted a split in its dual road games over the weekend. The Huskies defeated Bowling Green State 17-19, 15-10, 15-10, 15-7, and lost 15-9, 15-9, 15-4 to Michigan State. NIU coach...

BUFFALO GROVE—The NIU soccer team hit the road over the weekend and was able to come home with a 2-1 win over Northwestern Sunday but suffered a tough 3-2 loss to Quincy College Friday. Friday's game against QC was a hard loss for the Huskies to take....

TOLEDO—Anyone who watched host Toledo rack up 30 second-half points in its victory over NIU Saturday night knows what happened. The Huskies couldn't stop the Rockets and the Rockets stopped the Huskies. Simple. Though the Rockets entered the game anywhere...

While the NIU field hockey team (10-2-1) defeated Michigan 4-3 Sunday, coach Laurie Bell was not real impressed with the victory. "It was a win, but it wasn't pretty," Bell said. After just 25 seconds of play, Michigan slipped in an early goal to take...

The NIU softball team won its own Huskie Invitational tournament over the weekend. The Huskies destroyed a tough Western Illinois ballclub in dominating fashion, 9-1, in the championship game Sunday. The game will be televised on SportsVision at noon...

In her third year as NIU women's golf coach, Pam Tyska is starting to see "some recruiting dreams come true." While the fall season will conclude this weekend with the Huskie Fall Classic at Kishwaukee Country Club Oct. 7-8, Tyska said she has noticed...

It has been a rather quiet semester, but I think something has happened recently that deserves attention. No, I am not here to cut down anyone in the athletic administration or any NIU athletic team. (Please, don't look so shocked.) I was one of the 14,000-plus...

Kari Brackett, sports editor Here I go again. I always try to be so philosophical with my predictions, and I fall flat on my face. Not this time. In the National League, I'm gonna go with the Mets. Actually I hate the team, but it has speed and it has...