While the North Star Conference volleyball champions will be decided this weekend at the NSC tournament Saturday and Sunday at DePaul, it might be a vendetta for NIU. Notre Dame is the defending NSC winner. The Fighting Irish have won 14 matches in a...

NIU's matmen will face their toughest competition so far this season at this weekend's St. Louis open. NIU will face such power teams as Oklahoma, Wisconsin, Missouri and Illinois at the tourney. Coach Ed Vatch said the meet is "as good or better as the...

Challenging might be the way to best describe the 1987-88 NIU women's basketball schedule. The Huskies are not just playing mediocre teams to improve last season's 11-16 record. Second-ranked Tennessee, fourth-ranked California-Long Beach and 10th-ranked...

Second-year coach Jim Rosborough has a different team with a different look this season, but now all he wants is different results. The NIU men's basketball team struggled through last season with on- and off-court problems, finishing with a weak 9-19...

Jane Albright has worked blue-collar hours to put the pieces in place. On Nov. 28, she'll find out how her NIU women's basketball team fits in the 1987-88 season. She lost point guard Val Leitzen. Albright went to Minnesota and bagged Denise Dove. Forward...

NIU men's basketball coach Jim Rosborough enters his second year at the helm after compiling a 9-19 record in his rookie season. Osborough, 42, was hired April 24, 1986, to run the Huskies after being a Tulsa assistant. Before that, he served as a color...

It was not a pretty sight Thursday night at Chick Evans Fieldhouse as NIU narrowly defeated a scrappy New Zealand National team 74-71. The Kiwis finally succumbed when Byron Vaetoe's three-point shot bounced off the back of the rim at the buzzer. Vaetoe,...

The NIU men's basketball team solidified the future of its backcourt when it announced the signing of guard Marcus Coty, head coach Jim Rosborough said. Coty, a 6-foot-1-inch, 165-pound senior from Washington High School in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, received...

Although Saturday's men's alumni gymnastics meet was held to get the NIU squad ready for competition next semester, the reactions of the crowd as well as the players kept the meet "in good humor." The gymnasts entered each event with intense seriousness,...

The 14th Alumni Intrasquad meet for men's gymnastics will be Saturday 7:30 p.m. at Chick Evans Field House. The meet is not a tournament that other teams are involved in, but it gives the NIU gymnasts a chance to work and at the same time have some fun...

As the volleyball season winds down for NIU, the squad is basically working on refining its skills for the Saturday match against the Georgia Bulldogs at Athens, Ga. "This is the time of the year when the players don't want to spend as much time in the...

The Akron Zips are a sick football team. The school's weak 3-6 record and ailing defense, which is giving up an average of 389.1 yards per game, seems to have affected the players. Truth is, many of the Zips might be feeling out of sorts for Saturday's...