Friday afternoon started typically, except this time the clan from The Northern Star was getting set for softball instead of the weekly football game. We had nine people at the field behind Gabel Hall, enough to have batting and fielding practice, but...

While the women's softball team has every intention of playing its home opener today, Mother Nature may have other plans. The Huskies are scheduled for a 1 p.m. doubleheader against the Iowa Hawkeyes, but at press time play looked questionable because...

NEW YORK (AP)—A rare first edition of Edgar Allan Poe's first book, a collection of poetry written when he was 14, is to be auctioned by Sotheby's, which calls it "the most exciting book discovery in many years." In the 161 years since its publication,...

SEATTLE (AP)—Tom Tolbert scored 18 of his 21 points in the second half and converted two critical three-point plays as No. 2 Arizona defeated No. 7 North Carolina 70-52 Sunday for a berth in the NCAA Final Four. The victory in the West Regional championship...

It looks like the NIU softball team is a fair-weather bunch. Coach Dee Abrahamson's squad dropped three straight decisions in the chilly Carbondale air over the weekend before rallying for a 3-1 win over Western Illinois Saturday afternoon. The Huskies'...

Houston Baptist put on a divine performance at Chick Evans Field House Saturday afternoon, scoring 282.05 to win the blue ribbon at the Independent Gymnastics Championships. NIU finished third in the tourney with its 274.75 tally, just missing second...

State bragging rights were on the line for NIU, and the women's gymnastics team earned them in dominating fashion with a 178.45-133.75 win over Illinois State Friday night at Chick Evans Field House. The Huskies, 11-5, swept the top three places in every...

Amy Andersen proved she deserved to be moved into the NIU women's tennis team's line-up this spring, as she defeated her Illinois opponent 7-5, 6-3 at Thursday's dual meet in Champaign. But Andersen's win couldn't carry the weight of the other eight sedes...

Although Illinois State will be present at the women's gymnastic meet in Chick Evans Field House Friday at 7 p.m., NIU coach Bobbie Cesarek said she feels the Huskies will be battling themselves. The ISU squad has been under the weather with injuries...

So maybe southern Illinois isn't southern Florida. The NIU softball team won't notice the difference if they can have as much success this weekend in Carbondale as they did in Tallahassee over Spring Break. The Huskies, 10-2 after a second-place finish...

Some of the best gymnastics in the United States will be on display Saturday when NIU hosts the National Independent Gymnastics Championships. The all-day tournament begins at 1 p.m. with team competition and is followed by the 7 p.m. individual finals....

The NIU wrestling team finished the 1987-88 season with an overall 5-14-1 dual-meet record. The Huskies' season record does not exemplify the quality of wrestling displayed by coach Ed Vatch's young squad. Vatch will see most of his top grapplers in the...