Being a hospitable host is not one of the NIU men's tennis team's strong points. The Huskie netmen won three dual meets over the weekend as they hit their home courts for the first time in the spring season. NIU opened the weekend by beating Illinois-Chicago...

Ticket prices for men's basketball, complementary football tickets and reports on the Japanese gymnastics meet and sport medicine were some of the topics discussed at Wednesday's Athletic Board meeting. NIU Associate Athletic Director Chuck Shriver presented...

Saturday's Mid-East Independent Championships at Illinois-Chicago is important for the men's gymnastics team in two ways. First of all, NIU is hoping to send three gymnasts to the NCAA Championship in Los Angeles. Freshman Carlos Fulcher is the sole Huskie...

Already 26 dual meets into its season, the NIU men's tennis team is set to play where it has not played all year—home. The Huskies will play three teams this weekend at the Gullickson Tennis Courts by Anderson Hall. NIU, 16-10, will open Saturday at...

A $100,000 overestimation in student athletic fee revenue for the 1987 fiscal year will force the NIU athletic department to cut its current budget by $80,000. Gary Glenn, chairman of the Athletic Board's Budget Committee, said the board wanted to reduce...

While athletes have to face the end of their careers sometime, Clarence Vaughn is looking to delay the inevitable a little while longer. Vaughn finished his career at NIU last fall with 96 tackles—second-highest on the team—and now looks toward a...

While some basketball fans might scour a collegiate directory to find out about a few of NIU's opponents, NIU Coach Jim Rosborough seems content with his product. Next season's basketball schedule for the men's team is just about ready, but some games...

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...

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....

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...

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...