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...

It's the kind of loss that can kill a team. The kind when a team is leading the entire game and the win is just ripped away. Sunday at Oestrike Stadium in Ypsilanti, Mich., NIU headed into the ninth inning tied at seven in the rubber match of the three-game...

Following Carl Appell and George "Chick" Evans, Ralph McKinzie became NIU's third full-time head coach and served for 24 years as a basketball, baseball, tennis, track coach, football aide and athletic trainer. "Mac" won three Little 19/IIAC titles on...

Throughout the first 50 years of NIU sports, Reino Nori was the best. Standing only 5 feet 6 inches tall and weighing in at 155 pounds, Nori won 17 varsity letters in five sports (football, basketball, wrestling, baseball and track). The "Flyin' Finn"...

The momentum the Huskies started with against Toledo on Friday didn't carry through the weekend as they fell in the doubleheader series finale at Ralph McKinzie Field on Saturday. The NIU baseball team rallied for seven runs in the bottom of the seventh...

Tom Wittum is arguably the best kicker to play at Northern Illinois. Wittum, nicknamed ‘The Toe,' is a two-time NIU Hall of Famer in football and baseball. He was also voted onto the All-Century team in 1999 as a punter. When he graduated from NIU...

A little more than halfway through the season, the NIU baseball team continues to search for a way to play better defense. The Huskies (13-21 overall, 4-7 MAC) host Toledo in a three-game series beginning today at 3 p.m. at Ralph McKinzie Field. NIU comes...