In 1997, current NIU freshman Kate McCullagh first decided to go out for volleyball as a seventh grader at Olson Middle School in Woodstock. With no volleyball experience, McCullagh made the team. Once on the team, the 6-foot middle blocker rode the bench...

Both the NIU football and basketball teams were picked preseason to win the MAC. But one has distinguished itself as the fan favorite in DeKalb. DeKalb Mayor Greg Sparrow thinks both the Huskie football and basketball teams will be playing postseason...

After four years, Benjy Taylor returned to NIU. Taylor, a former NIU assistant and the current head coach at North Central College, saw his new team lose 101-71 to his old team Wednesday night in front of about 1,000 people at the Convocation Center....

Familiar faces will collide at 7:05 p.m. today at the Convocation Center when the NIU basketball team plays North Central College. A Division III school, the Cardinals, who finished 8-17 the past two years, will mark the first exhibition game of the season...

For two consecutive years the NIU football team has fallen into a tie-breaking loss for the MAC West title. And for those same two years, the tie-breaking loss came at the hands of the Toledo Rockets. Toledo has been the bully on the block the last two...

NIU’s 24th-ranked wrestling team had six wrestlers and two coaches place at the Michigan State Open over the weekend. Josh Wooton, at the 149-pound level, wrestled in his first tournament at his new weight. He took home first in his weight division....

NIU wide receiver and punt returner P.J. Fleck said he knows the most important factor in winning -field position. “If you start from your own 20-yard line and have to drive 80 yards every time, you won’t win many games,” Fleck said. “But if you...

Coming off its first winning season since 1996, the NIU men’s basketball team is ranked the preseason No. 1 in the MAC; but that means nothing to Huskies coach Rob Judson. “It’s nice to be picked at the top in November, but our goal is to be there...

NIU junior defensive end Travis Moore will miss the remainder of the season with a stress fracture in his left ankle. Moore injured his ankle against Iowa State and missed four games before returning against Ball State on Nov. 1. “It hurt when I was...

This just in: The MAC is pretty good when it comes to football. Thanks to Miami-Ohio’s convincing win over then-No. 15 Bowling Green, the RedHawks became the third MAC team to be nationally ranked in the top 25 - a first in the 57-year history of the...

If only it counted. The NIU women’s basketball team built a 21-point lead early and never looked back in its 81-47 win over the Chicago Challengers - in exhibition play. Nonetheless, Huskies coach Carole Hammerle was pleased with the way the team started...

Friday night, NIU wide receiver Shatone Powers dreamt he was going to catch two touchdowns in NIU’s game against Buffalo. The dream came true. The sophomore receiver caught two touchdowns in NIU’s 40-9 victory over Buffalo. Powers had three catches...