The NIU women’s soccer team faces Creighton at 4 p.m. today at the Huskie Soccer Field. On Sunday, the Huskies travel to play MAC foe Buffalo. The Huskies (0-3-0) are coming off a 3-1 loss to the University of Wisconsin on Friday. Creighton appeared...

Victory has slipped through the hands of the NIU men’s soccer team in its first four games of the season. The Huskies (0-3-1) will look to pick up their first win of the year at this weekend’s NIU Fall Invitational. NIU plays at noon on Saturday against...

Riverside-Brookfield High School football coach Otto Zeman said Britt Davis is the No. 1 player in the state. Davis backs that up by saying he’s No. 1. Now, all NIU wants is for Britt to say the Huskies are No. 1. I The 6-foot-3 senior quarterback lists...

Standing only 4-feet-10, NIU volleyball’s Gina Guide is the shortest player in Division I volleyball. Megan Vehovic of Navy and Lauren Vukovic of Wisconsin-Milwaukee are the next shortest in the country, according to the www.Richkern.com. Both barely...

Fans looking for tickets in the west side of Huskie Stadium for the Iowa State game are in for an unpleasant surprise. The west side is officially sold out for the Sept. 27 game. “I’m thrilled,” NIU coach Joe Novak said. “For eight years I’ve...

Only Britney Spears kissing Madonna at the MTV Video Music Awards is a hotter topic on campus right now than NIU football. A recent anonymous survey was filled out by 10 men and 10 women, randomly chosen in the Stevenson cafeteria. Students were asked...

Editor’s note: “From the bleachers ...” is a weekly column done every Wednesday by Chris Jurmann. Chris will write from his own observations. His views do not necessarily reflect those of the Star Sports staff or any of its writers. Scores don’t...

NIU defensive end Vinson Reynolds has only had one birthday party in his life. I For Reynolds, though, nothing could compare to winning a football game on your birthday, especially the biggest game of your life. I When NIU heads south to Tuscaloosa to...

NIU president John Peters met with 11 other collegiate presidents in Chicago on Monday to discuss how the Bowl Championship Series can be made more fair for every Division-I school. The meeting, Peters said, was made up of six presidents representing...

On Aug. 24, former NIU offensive lineman Tim Vincent was released by the Chicago Bears for not being “big” enough. Well, it sure looked like the Bears could have used another offensive lineman just like they could have used a new punt returner, new...

You don’t have the speed of Michael Turner and you can’t jump as high as Marcus Smallwood. But as the intramural season gets ready to begin, you can be the star. The first intramural sport to start was softball, which began Monday. Other sports in...

Athleticism, hard work, production and growth. The four freshmen who NIU men’s soccer coach Steve Simmons brought in have defined these four words this season, and have made an immediate impact on the Huskies. Justin McGrane, Kevin Woerner, Mike Corvo...