The hot, humid days of mid-August were not the happiest of times for the women's basketball program. Head coach Jane Albright saw her staff of three dwindle to one as fast as you could say chop-chop. The departures of Yvette Harris and Lynnette Robinson...

Saturday, in the affluent North Shore hamlet of Evanston, Ill., the NIU Huskie football team will face its biggest challenge of the 1987 season. The Northwestern Wildcats are the sole Big 10 team, and the only Big Name, on the 1987 Huskie slate. NIU has...

For the third consecutive weekend, the NIU volleyball team will compete in a tournament. This time the Huskies will play in the Butler University Tournament tonight and Saturday in Indianapolis, Ind. Coach Herb Summers said he hopes his team's play is...

KALAMAZOO, Mich.—This week, 30-plus points was enough to secure a win for the NIU football team—thanks to the killer wishbone and a defense with a flair for the dramatic. The Huskies took their first 1987 win Saturday with a 34-14 drubbing of the...

KALAMAZOO, Mich.—The Huskies looked more like greyhounds as they ran through and around Western Michigan's defense to a 28-0 lead on the way to a 34-14 win Saturday. NIU eclipsed the 500-yard barrier for the second week in a row, picking up 432 of its...

This weekend's Huskie Invitational volleyball tournament could be renamed the Wolverine Invitational after Michigan swept its way to first-place honors. Western Illinois finished second with its only loss coming to Michigan. NIU placed third and Miami...

When NIU volleyball coach Herb Summers predicted his team would be in a grueling match against Lewis, he was not kidding. The Huskies and Flyers went head-to-head for two hours and 20-minutes in a five game match. The Huskies took charge and defeated...

The New York Giants might have fared better Monday night against the Chicago Bears defense if they had their top run blocker. Unfortunately for the defending Super Bowl champions, Karl Nelson, a 6-foot-6 offensive tackle and former DeKalb High School...

The NIU soccer team travels to Bavarian Field in Milwaukee, Wis., Wednesday for a 4 p.m. match with Marquette University. Coach Willy Roy's Huskies are trying to improve on their 2-2-0 season record against a Warrior team which has beaten NIU two years...

Peter Pan never wanted to grow up, so he didn't. He spent his days doing what he wanted to do—flying around with Tinkerbell and battling a crippled pirate. Of course, you won't find anybody in green tights flying around Huskie Stadium. But you will...

Northwestern interim Athletic Director Ken Kraft said Monday he has applied for NIU's permanent directorship. Kraft's statement comes on the heels of the search committee's first meeting Friday, where committee members began to set up shop and screen...

After a long weekend in California, the NIU volleyball team is home tonight to play the Lewis Flyers at Chick Evans Field House at 7 p.m. It has been four years since the Huskies and Flyers met. NIU coach Herb Summers said he is not sure what to expect...