It's time to pay tribute to the top dogs. As the 1988 NIU football season comes to a close, memories of first big plays and nightmares of even bigger blunders are relived in the minds of the Huskies as they prepare to make their final entrance into Huskie...

Elgin High School's Mike Beck will sign a letter of intent Saturday night with the NIU men's basketball team. According to Beck's high school coach, Jim Harrington, the senior from Elgin, Ill., verbally committed Tuesday night and will sign the agreement...

While Kansas State's campus newspaper, The Collegian, reported Tuesday that NIU football coach Jerry Pettibone is one of the five remaining candidates for the KSU head coaching job, Pettibone only would say Thursday that KSU "has shown interest in me."...

Huskie basketball fans are in for a real south-of-the-border treat this weekend as the NIU men's basketball team hosts Club Rio Claro, Brazil Saturday at 7:05 p.m. for an exhibition game. Rio Claro is sure to give NIU a tough test in the Huskies' first...

Things will not be easy for NIU volleyball coach Pete Waite and his team this weekend. The second-year coach contends with fellow North Star Conference member DePaul at 7:30 p.m. Friday in Alumni Hall. The match against the Blue Demons airs on SportsVision...

9-0. That is the record of the Western Illinois Leathernecks. The ones that are ranked number two in the nation among Division I-AA teams. The same Leathernecks that will face the NIU Huskies Saturday—their only Division I-A opponent all year—for...

NIU women's basketball coach Jane Albright does not call her program a powerhouse. She does not call it a young team. But she does compare it to something—bamboo. The Huskie boss explained her comparison about bamboo at Wednesday's Media Day where local...

NIU women's basketball coach Jane Albright thinks the 1988-89 version of the Huskies can improve on last season's 14-14 record by playing more aggressively and creating more turnovers on defense. A new defensive philosophy aimed at creating more fastbreak-scoring...

The 1988-89 NIU women's basketball team has two new faces on the block—two faces that head coach Jane Albright and her staff feel will fit right in the Huskie lineup. Entering this year's campaign are freshmen Tracy Mondek and Dee Dee Jeske. Both women...

The NIU men's volleyball club, a member of the Midwest Intercollegiate Volleyball Association (MIVA), will receive its chance to share the spotlight with the NIU women's volleyball team Saturday. The volleyball club has received the opportunity to play...

The 1988-89 NIU women's basketball team has two new faces on the block—two faces that head coach Jane Albright and her staff feel will fit right in the Huskie lineup. Entering this year's campaign are freshmen Tracy Mondek and Dee Dee Jeske. Both women...

Both the NIU men's and women's swimming and diving squads open their 1988-89 campaigns on Friday. The men host Loyola in a 6:30 p.m. Anderson Hall Pool meet, while the women head towards the University of Missouri for a 7:30 p.m. contest. On Saturday,...