I don't fancy myself a professional wrestling aficionado, but a few recent news tidbits have caught my attention and for all the wrong reasons. On Friday, March 13, former World Wrestling Entertainment talent Andrew Martin - known to fans as Test - was...

Behind the laughter of "Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby" was a message that hits so close to home. "If you ain't first, you're last." And while it surely brought upon laughs when Ricky Bobby's father rebuts by saying, "That doesn't make any...

Not all runs are created equal. Baseball is simple; whoever scores the most runs wins the game. But when a team scores, those runs can make all the difference. Going into the batter's box for the first time in NIU's second game against Buffalo, NIU designated...

Offense was the name of the game for the NIU baseball team this weekend. The Huskies (8-12 overall, 3-0 MAC) pulled out a three-game sweep over Buffalo (8-12, 0-3) to improve to 15-0 against the Bulls. Head coach Ed Mathey is 8-0 against Buffalo. The...

NIU head baseball coach Ed Mathey called this past weekend the toughest stretch of competition NIU has faced since he's been at the school. The Huskies traveled to Tempe, Ariz. this past weekend and faced three nationally-ranked teams at the DeMarini...

The MLB drug testing policy has been under scrutiny for years. And with the alleged steroid use of New York Yankees superstar Alex Rodriguez, sports fans are tearing it apart even more. But what about the NCAA drug testing policy? The NCAA has two testing...

Coming into the season, one of the biggest questions for the NIU baseball team was how it would replace 70 percent of the team's innings pitched it lost after last season. The early answers aren't great. The Huskies gave up six, eight, 10 and nine runs...

Despite the frigid temperatures across DeKalb County, baseball season finally kicks off today for NIU. The Huskies open their season at the BankFirst Baseball Challenge at Mississippi State and must be ready to hit the ground running with a double-header...

Cold weather predictions have moved the start times for some of the NIU baseball team's opening games at the BankFirst Baseball Challenge. The Friday game against North Florida has been changed to a 1 p.m. CT start time due to the prediction of cold overnight...

Friday was officially the start of baseball season. Yes, pitchers and catchers are reporting to Spring Training around the league. It came just in time. The misery of being a Bears fan the past two years is over, the bowl game disappointments are gone...

In Major League Baseball, pitchers and catchers report to spring training in the middle of February. In college baseball, it's when teams start their regular season schedule. NIU barely got to practice outside this season, having a little bit of time...

While Alex Rodriguez's admission to steroid use was a giant step forward for the sport of baseball, I was left with too many unanswered questions when everything was said and done. I could easily say this was because A-Rod was telling the 100 percent...