Week one of both the NFL and most major NCAA conferences are in the books. It was exciting to watch football on national TV again. Football on TV restored a sense of normalcy I was lacking these last few months, along with a little bit of extra spending...
This column will be the first in a weekly series by James Krause following the NFL season.In an ad featured throughout many of the league games this week, the NFL featured snippets of the Hall of Fame speech of former running back LaDainian Tomlinson.
The...
The PGA Tour rolls into its second major of the 2020 calendar. Originally scheduled for Father’s Day weekend in June, the US Open at Winged Foot Country Club in New York will host one of golf's greatest tests starting Thursday.
The championship...
DeKALB — Friday kicked off men’s golf’s fall season. The Huskies started the inaugural Heide Wealth Management Series at Kishwaukee Country Club in DeKalb, for the first leg of the Bettinardi Classic, the second leg had to be canceled.
The...
With the MLB season dwindling to its final weeks of the season, both teams from Chicago are poised to make the playoffs. There is still a possibility either team could fall apart down the stretch and miss the playoffs, but with the playoffs being extended...
This is a big week in professional athletics across the board, which means it is a big week for those of us who compete in fantasy sports and also, recently legalized, sports betting.
Sports gambling and daily fantasy sports has become a multi-billion...
DeKALB — Plans have been set in place for a women’s basketball season, as NIU Athletics released the team’s 2020-21 Mid-American Conference schedule Wednesday.
The Huskies are set to play an expanded 20-game MAC schedule, up from 18 conference...
DeKALB — With fall competitions sidelined, NIU’s athletic department has started searching for ways of providing a similar competitive atmosphere.
One of those programs is the NIU Men’s Golf team, who’s fall intercollegiate competitions were...
With the heart-breaking Game 7 elimination of the Oklahoma City Thunder, the surprisingly competitive first round of the NBA Playoffs in the bubble is finally over.
The Houston Rockets join the Denver Nuggets, Los Angeles Clippers and Los Angeles Lakers...
DeKALB — As many classes have moved online, so have organized NIU competitive events. NIU Esports will be holding tryouts for its varsity teams. The first tryout is 6 p.m. Sept. 9, followed by a second tryout at 6 p.m. Sept. 10.
NIU Esports is looking...
It’s been 211 days since Kobe Bryant, one of the world’s biggest icons, died tragically in a helicopter crash along with his daughter, Giana, and seven others. At times, it still doesn’t seem real.
The significance of today, Aug. 24, or rather...
Just over five months ago, I sat in a Cleveland hotel room the night before the Mid-American Conference men’s basketball tournament and watched the sports world melt down.
Ever since, I’ve tempered any expectations I might have when it comes...
