Students looking for a cheering section to be a part of can look to the Red Riot, which has been revamped and reorganized after a takeover by new management. The Northern Star sat down with Red Riot President Matthew Jockl to talk about the change and...

NIU football schedules Wake Forest, Ohio State: The NIU football team recently announced that they've set up a couple of attractive dates. The Huskies will play Wake Forest in 2014, completing a three game agreement with the school. NIU played the Demon...

Frank Thomas Day at U.S. Cellular Field, what a great day. Even for a Cubs fan, check that, a baseball fan, Frank Thomas was one of the greatest power hitters in the history of baseball. He is the greatest, and presumably cleanest, home run hitter in...

To all the incoming freshman at Northern Illinois University, I offer you these suggestions in an attempt in making your first year as a Huskie a good one. I'm not offering the best schemes to ditch class or the locations of elaborate party spots. Instead,...

Balloting for the 2009 MLB All-Star Game closes on Sunday, so you'd best exercise your democratic duty and vote. And in the rare event you opt not to stuff the ballot full of your favorite team's undeserving players - Bill Hall ‘09! Who needs to...

George "Chick" Evans has his fingerprints all over the modern day look of NIU athletics. Evans served as the athletic director from 1929 to 1968 and initiated the plan for the Huskies to enter NCAA Division I-A status. He expanded the number of sports...

While there may be a shortage of jobs in Michigan, there was no shortage of runs this weekend as NIU traveled to Central Michigan. The Huskies' bats were alive in game one and two, beating the Chippewas 16-3 and 11-5 respectively. CMU, however, prevented...

I joined the Northern Star sports staff in January 2008 because I want to be a sports writer. I knew I would like working here, but I didn't expect to cover some of the events or interview some of the people that I did. In just a year and a half, I have...

Nothing went right for the NIU baseball team Wednesday. Whether it was hitting or the team's pitching and defense, everything went against the Huskies. NIU ended up with more errors than hits in a 12-2 blowout loss to Valparaiso. "This was just a real...

Bob Brigham took over as NIU's athletic director in 1968. He achieved his first major accomplishment in 1969 by getting the Huskie football program into NCAA Division I-A. Brigham donned the cardinal and black for 50 years as a student-athlete, assistant...

The NIU baseball team has seen this movie before. After giving up a walk-off homer Sunday in a loss to Eastern Michigan, the Huskies suffered two heartbreaking defeats Tuesday at Wisconsin-Milwaukee. NIU twice took leads into the sixth inning at Henry...

Coming out of high school, NIU was the only Division-I school that recruited Matt German. Coming out of high school, German threw in the mid- to high-80s and had a loopy curveball. Thanks to a change in his delivery and the development of a devastating...