There are no plans to construct a Huskiedome at NIU, but softball coach Dee Abrahamson might petition for one soon. With last Tuesday's doubleheader home opener having been canceled due to inclement weather, the 11-5 Huskie softball squad has been scrambling...

While the women's softball team has every intention of playing its home opener today, Mother Nature may have other plans. The Huskies are scheduled for a 1 p.m. doubleheader against the Iowa Hawkeyes, but at press time play looked questionable because...

Friday afternoon started typically, except this time the clan from The Northern Star was getting set for softball instead of the weekly football game. We had nine people at the field behind Gabel Hall, enough to have batting and fielding practice, but...

It looks like the NIU softball team is a fair-weather bunch. Coach Dee Abrahamson's squad dropped three straight decisions in the chilly Carbondale air over the weekend before rallying for a 3-1 win over Western Illinois Saturday afternoon. The Huskies'...

So maybe southern Illinois isn't southern Florida. The NIU softball team won't notice the difference if they can have as much success this weekend in Carbondale as they did in Tallahassee over Spring Break. The Huskies, 10-2 after a second-place finish...

To the 1988 NIU softball team, the future looks so bright, they've got to wear shades. At least, that's the song the Huskies hope to be singing this season. The Huskie squad began its 1988 campaign on the road in Florida and built a solid foundation to...

Listen closely and you can hear the bats cracking and the balls whizzing. Yes, it is spring time and with spring comes softball season. While the temperature outside has not yet reached spectacular heights, the 1988 NIU softball team is beginning to heat...

College athletes must perform in their sport and in the classroom, but sometimes they have the added pressure of battling the "dumb jock" stereotype in the eyes of some faculty. Elliot Lessen, an associate professor of Learning, Development and Special...

NIU and other major college institutions have made academic rules to protect the student/athlete, but several NIU coaches say the rules could be improved. The current NIU grade point average rule states athletes must have a 1.70 prior to their second,...

And then there was one. The North Star Conference will lose two more of its charter members following this spring's softball championships when Dayton and Notre Dame leave for the Midwestern Cities Conference next year. DePaul is the only original NSC...

A battle against cancer will begin with the opening pitch of the DeKalb Challenge softball tournament Nov. 7 and 8. The tournament is sponsored by Phi Sigma Kappa fraternity and local proprietors. Phi Sig Philanthropy Chairman Peter Zaikowski said he...

After a day off from public forums, the athletic director scenario resumes today when Minnesota Assistant AD Gerald O'Dell has his chance to address NIU, but the interviews so far have not gone unnoticed. O'Dell's public forum is from 2-3:30 p.m. in Holmes...