NIU's football season opener with Cal State-Fullerton (Sept. 2) is less than a week away, but the coaches are not worried. "We've practiced hard to get ready for Cal State," defensive coordinator Tim McGuire said. "We're on schedule." The same holds true...

Believing in one's ability plays a key role in athletics. And the NIU women's field hockey team needs to believe in itself as the 1989 fall season approaches. The Huskies finished the 1988 schedule with a 15-3-1 record—good enough to rank them 19th...

In its last season as a member of the Big Central Soccer Conference, the NIU soccer team has its eyes set on improving last years 0-6-0 intraconference record. The Huskies will join the Association of Mid-Continent Universities the following year so the...

The results of NIU's three-year promotions package with Coors Light can now be seen in store windows and on counters throughout DeKalb. NIU's new Coors Light football poster, the first of several promotional items produced in conjuction with the beer...

Former NIU basketball player Rodney Davis returned from his tryout with the Minnesota Timberwolves (July 20-23) with little more than some added experience. The ex-Huskie guard, who tried out for the Chicago Bulls last year, failed to make the NBA expansion...

Willy Roy has come a long way since the days he and his brother first played soccer in a chicken pen in East Germany. So when the third-year NIU soccer coach is inducted into the United States Soccer Federation Hall of Fame this weekend, he undoubtedly...

When NIU joined the Association of Mid-Continent Universities on June 14, four Huskie sports escaped the label of independence. However, one NIU sport—the soccer program—already belonged to a competitive league in the form of the Big Central Soccer...

NIU women's basketball coach Jane Albright has completed her 1989-90 coaching staff with the hiring of Sandra J. Schuster as a part-time assistant. Schuster, a 10-year girls basketball coach at Cobden Unit School in southern Illinois, taught science and...

NIU President John LaTourette Tuesday named Raymond J. Dembinski the chairman of the NIU Athletic Board. Dembinski, a professor of special education, will take over the spot beginning August 15 and will succeed James Mellard, who has served as the board's...

When it comes time for Erik Solky to write his "What I Did This Summer..." essay, the NIU standout gymnast can author a "golden" one. As in the Gold Medal he won representing the United States in the 13th Annual World Maccabiah Games held July 3-13 in...

THEBES, Ill.—Former Cape Girardeau, Mo., high school basketball standout Darla Pannier, 19, died Tuesday of injuries received in a Monday automobile accident, authorities said. Pannier apparently lost control of her car when it struck a large pool of...