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...

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,...

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...

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...

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,...