During the past six weeks, as the 26 major league baseball teams have gone through the paces of spring training, the catch-phrase "undergoing a youth movement" has popped up a few times. Over at Huskie Stadium, the NIU football team has a youth movement...

Lies are legal today. With that in mind, here are my predictions for the sports world on this day of fools and jokers. The Cubs and Sox will run away with their respective divisions and meet in the World Series. Shawon Dunston will win a Gold Glove. Gene...

For Jill Justin, the biggest problem this season might be deciding what she can do for an encore. The sophomore center fielder for the NIU softball team set numerous school records last year as a freshman on her way to earning first-team honors on the...

The only sounds on the playing field at Huskie Stadium Monday were those of the March winds playing out winter's last hand. But inside the superstructure, it was business as usual for the NIU coaching staff on a day designated as a break from spring workouts....

Placing third behind national powers such as Alabama and Kentucky was a goal of the NIU women's golf team going into the weekend's Western Kentucky-Southern Illinois Invitational, and the Huskies met it. Alabama claimed the team title with a two-day total...

This weekend's Redbird Tournament at Illinois State left NIU softball coach Dee Abrahamson with several questions about her team's performance. "The people out there playing (against DePaul) in the Huskie uniforms weren't us," Abrahamson said after her...

Even though the men's and women's gymnastics teams stayed in Illinois, there seemed to be no mercy for either teams from the in-state friends. The men's team (4-7) was defeated by U of I, 279.50-270.40, while the women Huskies (9-4) lost to the Illinois...

NIU's men's tennis team defeated Wisconsin for the second time this season, and the women's team captured two wins Saturday after a setback Friday. The men netters grabbed a 4-2 lead after singles play, which is somewhat surprising, on their way to a...

You are looking live at sold-out Soldier Field where today the Chicago Bears meet the New York Giants for the NFC championship ... ha, ha—wheeee! What, am I supposed to tell you kids who I think will win the NCAA championship? Look, I'm into baseball—I...

Both the men's and womens's gymnastics teams hit the road this weekend for meets on Saturday, but neither squad will have to travel far. The men journey to U of I, while the women voyage into Illinois State territory. It is the first meeting this year...

The NIU softball team has not been a very good guest so far this season. In fact, the Huskies have been somewhat offensive to their hosts. During a long early-season road swing NIU has established a 7-5 record and hit for a team batting average of .315....

In weather better suited for water polo, the NIU football team began spring practice Tuesday by diving right into its regular routine. Although it has been over four months since the Huskies ended their 1986 season with a 34-26 loss to Ohio, they wasted...