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...

NIU's matmen return to Michigan this weekend to try and prove they are capable of wrestling with the best teams in the country. The Huskies finished last weekend in sixth place among eight teams at the Michigan State Open. The Huskies will face many of...

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...

Scheduling philosophies, the budget and the admissions for gymnastic events were among the topics discussed Wednesday at the monthly board meeting. At the request of the new scheduling subcommittee, Robert Brigham and Susie Pembroke-Jones submitted scheduling...

Like the Akron football program he heads, Gerry Faust is rebuilding. Six years ago, Faust started his first season as head coach of the Notre Dame Fighting Irish, fresh off 18 years of guiding a juggernaut high school program in Cincinnati. Saturday,...

The Huskie basketball team will be looking for big things out of its freshmen next year. andy Fens, a 6-foot-8, 205 pounder from Dubuque, Iowa, and Brent Varner, a 6-foot-9, 235 pounder from Warren, Mich., signed National Letters of Intent Wednesday to...

NIU's volleyball team fell prey to another Big Ten volleyball team, losing to Northwestern 15-6, 15-3, 15-12 Tuesday night in Evanston. The wildcats (22-6) are the fifth Big Ten team to defeat the Huskies this season. NIU had also lost to Michigan, Wisconsin,...

They called it the killer instinct before Sylvester Stallone introduced the phrase "eye of the tiger" to the American lexicon. Of course, Jerry Pettibone's favorite term for competitive spirit is "they've got the fire in their eyes." Motivation by any...

GLEN ELLYN _The running game defeated the half-court offense Monday night in the NIU women's basketball Cardinal-White intrasquad scrimmage at Glenbard West High School. The Cardinal team exploded in the second half to win 80-57 after leading 26-22 at...

NIU's volleyball team has one more chance to defeat a Big Ten team this season. The Huskies head to Evanston, Ill. tonight for a 7:30 p.m. contest against the Northwestern Wildcats. The NIU squad has not had much luck with Big Ten teams this year. The...

When a team is losing, but playing well, there is no need to change things. This was the philosophy of NIU men's tennis coach Carl Neufeld for the weekend when the players did not place in the University of Kentucky Fall Invitational Friday and Saturday....