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...

You would think following the NIU football team, after all the success its had this season, would be pretty easy. But I found myself enduring quite an adventure just to be able to see our beloved team play on Saturday. The game was not covered on any...

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...

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...

As the Convocation Center erupted Saturday night, there were about 500 NIU fans ecstatic for their victorious Huskies. You couldn’t help but think, “Is this really Northern Illinois University?” When NIU upset Associated Press No. 21 Alabama 19-16,...

Tuscaloosa, Ala. - Three weeks after the biggest win in his career, NIU football coach Joe Novak has outdone himself. With the victory over Maryland a distant memory, a confident NIU Huskies football team emerged from historic Bryant-Denny Stadium victorious,...