Conflicting statements have been uttered between NIU, DePaul and Rockford MetroCentre officials about negotiations between the two schools and where next season's basketball game will be played. NIU Men's Athletic Director Robert Brigham and Coach Jim...

The University of Michigan is not only the home of a football powerhouse. The NIU men's tennis team came out on the short end of a 9-0 score Friday as the powerful Michigan Wolverines swept NIU in both singles and doubles play. Michigan, which upped its...

Going into this weekend's national wrestling tournament, NIU Coach Ed Vatch said his two wrestlers would have to catch fire in the early rounds, but instead they fizzled. Tino Gonzalez and Nate Allison were both eliminated after two matches Thursday in...

After the NIU men's tennis team's recent spring break trip to warmer climates, the Huskies showed their love for higher temperatures by putting together a five-match winning streak. Now Coach Carl Neufeld is hoping his crew can continue the hot style...

One thing is for certain. NIU men's golf coach Jack Pheanis is an optimist. Moving up one notch from the second day in the team standings at the Central Florida Citrus Classic was enough to convince the Huskie coach his team will survive. NIU finished...

March Madness is well underway as we head into the weekend which will give us a Class AA champion in high school basketball and the collegiate Final Four. Of the 48 games played in the first two rounds of the NCAA tournament, viewers were able to catch...

Pulsating hearts. Foot-stompin‘ cheers. Mid-court celebrations. Given those clues, the average sports fan might surmise that a sporting event must have been played. But yesterday at the Chick Evans Field House, it went beyond the common game of roundball....

When the NCAA handed down its so-called death penalty on the Southern Methodist football program earlier this month, it was a starting gun for some recruiters to head for Texas and pick up the remains. The Mustangs are banned from competition in 1987...

Ed Vatch and his NIU wrestlers will compete in the West Regionals this weekend in an attempt to make up for a subpar regular season record. Vatch has said all season the most important thing to him is not dual meets, but the postseason tournament. Now...

Learning experience is the key phrase for the women's diving team. For Patricia Akerman, Madolyn "Dindo" Scotty, and Susan Shaughnessy, it has been a season of learning. All three had to take in the ideas of a new coach. First-year coach Chris Chelich...

First-ranked Penn State kept its loss column clean as the Nittany Lions improved their record to 8-0 with Wednesday night's 279.25-268.85 victory over the NIU men's gymnastic team at Chick Evans Field House. "It was not a real good night for us," NIU...

Donnell Thomas, who signed a National Letter of Intent with NIU Nov. 12, made history Tuesday by scoring 51 points in Robeson High School's 127-60 playoff win over Kelly. Thomas, a 6-foot-5, 210-pound forward, converted 25 field goals and one free throw...