Both players walked into their second-floor Douglas 221 residence hall without scholarships and something to prove in the summer of 2000. I A pair of linebackers from the south side of Chicago, Brian Atkinson and Travis Moore didn’t know each other...

NIU baseball coach Ed Mathey is ecstatic about the spring season’s possibilities after the second game in the best-of-seven NIU Cardinal and Black Fall World Series. The series features the NIU baseball team split into two squads - the Black team and...

Forty years ago, the NIU football team was on top of the country. A 10-0 record and a Mineral Water Bowl victory secured a National Championship for the Huskies. Yes, that’s right, a National Championship. Albeit a national title in the College Division,...

Eight games, six losses and two ties. Coach Steve Simmons and the NIU men’s soccer team is halfway through the season and is still searching for that elusive first win. NIU is last among the seven MAC teams, but Marshall hasn’t fared much better....

NIU quarterback Josh Haldi seemed surprised when he realized the Huskies be the favorite in their game at 3:05 p.m. Saturday against Iowa State at Huskie Stadium. “It’s kind of different,” Haldi said. “Realistically, I think we got the bullseye...

A change-up in volleyball? It happens, but the ball isn’t pitched, it’s served. NIU’s Amanda Newlin thinks of the person serving as the pitcher and the coach as the catcher because the coach is the one making the calls, much like a catcher does...

There is no place in the world like Tuscaloosa, Ala., on football Saturdays. Two weeks ago when Alabama hosted Oklahoma on ESPN, the play-by-play announcer called games at Bryant-Denny Stadium “a happening.” That may be an understatement. People arrive...

Friday, 10:26 a.m. Depart and begin the 700-plus mile trip south. Friday, 3:15 p.m. Katiz, Ky. The first stop of the trip. This is something even a writer couldn’t dream up. While sitting at a Cracker Barrel restaurant for an afternoon meal, the bluegrass...

The NIU volleyball team became consecutive victim No. 56 at Ball State’s Worthen Arena Friday night. The Huskies, riding a six-match winning streak, opened MAC play with a straight-games loss to the Cardinals, 30-21, 30-26, 30-18. The win was the 56th...

Two days after three MAC teams upset ranked teams, MAC Commissioner Rick Chryst called Saturday one of the biggest days in the conference’s history. “Heading into the weekend we had a sense our teams would compete well,” said Chryst, in a press...

Despite flight delays that made the NIU football team more than an hour late to Huskie Stadium, about 40 supporters still waited for them early Sunday morning. “We were like, ‘Damn it’s a crowd of people out here,’” said senior cornerback Randee...

The NIU women’s soccer team fell to 0-3 in MAC play with two losses this weekend, one to Ball State and one to Miami-Ohio. Friday’s game against the Ball State (4-2-1, 2-0-0 MAC), the coaches’ preseason favorite to win the MAC, began with a goal...