Like every other major American university, the rites of spring at NIU include discussion of baseball. Of course, since there is no baseball team at NIU, the talk generally raises questions like, "Why did baseball leave?" and "When will baseball return?"...

Members of the NIU Athletic Board sounded off Wednesday about what they see as disregard within the administration for the board's advisory capacity. Citing past examples of committee action on athletic department matters without Athletic Board participation,...

Bicycles, watches, rings and calculators are among items to be auctioned off April 9 by the University Police in the Huskie Stadium. The auction, in the stadium's center lobby, include items turned in to the UPs as lost and found or items that have been...

After four years as an NIU assistant football coach, Ted Huber will spend his last day on the Huskie Stadium turf Saturday. The 45-year-old Huber will move to Warsaw, Ind., in late May where he will take a head coaching and physical education teaching...

When the DePaul women's basketball team won the National Invitational Tournament, it shed a new light on a shadowed North Star Conference. "Whenever you have a team in the conference that wins a national title," said NIU Associate Athletic Director Susie...

MESA, Ariz. (AP)—Calvin Schiraldi gave up two hits in five scoreless innings and Leon Durham homered, singled and drove in three runs to lead the Cubs to a 6-2 exhibition win Tuesday over the San Francisco Giants. Schiraldi, who is pitching himself...

It was a clean sweep for the NIU women's gymnastics team Tuesday night against Illinois-Chicago as the Huskies won every event on their way to a 178.50-170.15 victory. NIU improved to 12-5 in duals this season while the Flames fell to 2-9. "Again, this...

SARASOTA, Fla. (AP)—Greg Walker hit a home run and Jack McDowell and Ken Patterson made it stand by combining on a three-hit shutout Tuesday as the Chicago White Sox defeated the Cincinnati Reds 2-0. The 22-year-old McDowell, the fifth player chosen...

CLEARWATER, Fla. (AP)—Dallas Green, returning to the place where it all began, wants it known he'd like to get back into baseball. Green quit Oct. 29 after six years as general manager and president of the Chicago Cubs. Green insists that he's not advertising...

Covering the men's wrestling team this year was quite an experience. Not only were the players and coaches helpful in giving interviews, but it was great to listen to head coach Ed Vatch's colorful quotes during the course of the season. For example,...

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,...