NIU Athletic Director Gerald O'Dell said Friday that charges by a former Minnesota Gopher football player that O'Dell gave him money in 1983 were "ridiculous." Thursday's Chicago Tribune reported that O'Dell, who served as an assistant coach to Joe Salem...

CHICAGO (AP) - Chicago Cubs officials studied shadows and dark corners Tuesday as they worked to get the bugs out of the Wrigley Field lights before the team's historic night baseball opener. "The light levels are very, very good in themselves," said...

Former NIU basketball star Rodney Davis has advanced to the second stage of the Chicago Bulls free agent tryouts in California. The Bulls sent two free agents packing from their Cleveland summer league as Davis and nine other free agents made the cut...

Court proceedings began Monday in Detroit, Mich., in the lawsuit filed by Charlie Jones, a former NIU football player who was injured in a 1985 practice, against former men's Athletic Director Robert Brigham. NIU Legal Counsel George Shur said a Michigan...

Ted Karamos, NIU football's MVP last season, has left the Washington Redskins training camp to pursue another job offer and to be with his wife, who is expecting a child. Huskie coach Jerry Pettibone had compared Karamanos to former NIU offensive lineman...

In the midst of the summer heat, about 40 members of the NIU football team have been doing their sweating indoors as they prepare for the forthcoming season. The Huskie players in DeKalb this summer have been working out every day at Huskie Stadium by...

NIU Sports Information Director Mike Korcek won three national awards earlier this week in the 1987-88 writing and publications contests sponsored by the College Sports Information Directors of America. Korcek received "Best in the District" honors in...

Just when you thought the NIU softball team had gotten all the recognition it could get, more awards began piling up on the Huskies' doormat. Headlining the honorees is centerfielder Jill Justin, who received a nomination for the 1988 Honda-Broderick...

NIU Athletic Director Gerald O'Dell has named Clarence Hudson to fill the space left by former Huskie Associate AD Jerry Ippoliti. O'Dell also denied rumors that he had applied for the vacant AD position at Kansas State. He said he does not know where...

NIU wrestling coach Ed Vatch is excited about the two recruits he signed for the upcoming season: Thomas Curtis (T.C.) Dantzler from Thornwood and Jim Kossakowski from Elgin-Larkin. Dantzler is expected to wrestle for the Huskies at either 142 pounds...

Spring is just over a week old, but the NIU women's tennis team is well into its spring season. This weekend the team will travel to Oxford, Ohio, with its 5-9 record to do battle with state rival ISU Saturday at 2 p.m. and the Redskins of Miami at 9...

Sheldon Herd sees himself moving up. Up as in up north. Up as in up from Division I-AA to I-A. Up as in up to the front, as in defensive front. Herd, a linebacker coach for the past seven years at Division I-AA Eastern Illinois, was named Ted Huber's...