The year is 1996, and 23-year-old Matt Canada, along with Joe Novak, is leaving Indiana University. Novak, a defensive coordinator at IU, is taking his first head coaching job at Northern Illinois University, an Independent in a small midwestern town...

With Saturday’s loss, the NIU football team stands a game behind in the MAC West, but still has a chance at the division crown - with some help. For a chance to win the MAC, NIU needs to win its remaining four games against Ball State, Buffalo, Toledo...

While one star had a career day, another was relegated as a spectator. Bowling Green quarterback Josh Harris threw for a career-high 438 yards, while NIU running back Michael Turner carried just 18 times and spent most of the second half blocking. It...

The NIU volleyball team is looking to use Friday’s victory over Ball State as momentum against MAC West leader Eastern Michigan. At 7 p.m. today at the Convocation Center’s Victor E. Court, the Huskies face an EMU team (18-4, 6-3 MAC) that has lost...

It couldn’t last forever. Admit it. If you thought the NIU football team was really going to go undefeated, you were nuts. It’s just too hard to do - unless you’re Ohio State or Miami or something. Don’t get me wrong, the chance was there. But...

Bowling Green, Ohio - On the second play of the second quarter, Bowling Green quarterback Josh Harris completed a 17-yard pass to receiver Charles Sharon, giving him 230 yards total offense. The Huskies as a team had 226 total yards - for the entire game....

Bowling Green (OH)-Thousands of Falcons fans, along with about a hundred Huskie fans, gathered to cheer, chant and argue on Saturday. -- all because ESPN’s GameDay was at a MAC school for the first time. Scouts from the Tostitos Fiesta Bowl and the...

Freshman Kevin Woerner of the NIU men’s soccer team stole the spotlight on Senior Recognition Day. Scoring one goal and tallying one assist, Woerner led the Huskies (3-11-2, 2-3 MAC) to a 2-0 win against Buffalo (1-11-3, 0-6) Sunday at Huskie Soccer...

Nearly a month after losing to Ball State in straight games, the NIU volleyball team beat the Cardinals in four games. The Huskies lost to BSU on Sept. 26 at Worthern Arena. It was Ball State’s 56th straight win at home against MAC opponents. This time,...

NIU women’s soccer coach Frank Horvat hoped his team would add another win to its record with a pair of games against MAC Tournament-bound teams this weekend. The Huskies (3-14-1, 1-10-1 MAC) fell short, getting shut out 2-0 by Central Michigan on Friday...

Ball State volleyball coach Randy Litchfield called Friday’s match against NIU a joke. Ball State, who beat the Huskies 3-0 earlier in the season, never trailed in winning the first game by seven points. NIU responded by winning three consecutive games...

The NIU hockey club outscored Robert Morris College 18-2 in a two-game series over the weekend in Rockford. The Huskies won the first game 9-2 before shutting out RMC 9-0 in the second game. NIU was 1-5 heading into the two-game series, with all six games...