Imagine Duke University coming to the Convocation Center for a non-conference battle with NIU. Stop fantasizing, it won't happen. "We're not gonna get Duke in here or Northern Carolina to ever come to Northern Illinois," said Sundance Wicks, assistant...

Growing up, I always wanted to be a professional baseball player. Ever since I was old enough to lift a bat and put on a glove, I lived, ate and breathed baseball. If you ask the right people, not much has changed. But I grew up in a simpler, more innocent...

Over the weekend 4,727 people packed the Convocation Center for a basketball game. It was a high school game. The annual DeKalb-Sycamore game put more people in the seats than both weekend NIU basketball games combined, which totaled 4,359 people. Sports...

The Rockford RiverHawks announced Wednesday they have signed three Northern Illinois natives with common threads. First baseman Scott Simon, middle infielder Doug Sanders and pitcher Charlie Hahn have agreed to 2009 contracts. Simon and Sanders both enjoyed...

Huskie athletics is a big part of life in DeKalb and support from students and the community is very important. One way that anyone can contribute to NIU athletics is through the Huskie Athletic Scholarship Fund. At niuhuskies.com, anyone can help the...

Najul Ervin spends most of his time patrolling the paint in the Convocation Center for the NIU men's basketball team. The forward is averaging 4.7 points and 4.8 rebounds a game in his second season with the Huskies. Ervin also ranks second on the team...

Ben Gross When I reflect on NIU, there's plenty to be thankful for. But if I had to limit it to one thing, I'm most thankful for the facilities NIU has received over the past year and a half. The Yordon Center, the indoor hitting center and the new Soccer/Track...

Tampa Bay Rays manager Joe Maddon went old school on the Phillies - real old school. Maddon may have even dipped beyond the years of 45-year-old Jamie Moyer, when Maddon brought out the five-man infield in Saturday's World Series Game 3. This was do-or-die...

An NIU basketball player has earned preseason honors this year. Sophomore Darion "Jake" Anderson was one of 10 players named to the preseason All-Mid American Conference Team Wednesday. Last year's MAC Freshman of the Year averaged a team-best 12.2 points...

The 1972 NIU baseball team will be inducted into the NIU Athletics Hall of Fame Friday. The ‘72 Huskies finished with a record-tying 24 wins that season, en route to capturing the Midwestern Conference title as well as upsetting defending NCAA Regional...

NIU Intercollegiate Athletics will enshrine one team and four individuals into the school's Athletics Hall of Fame on Oct. 17 as part of the Huskies' 102nd Homecoming weekend. The formal induction ceremonies will once again take place at the Duke Ellington...

So this is how revenge feels. You see, I wasn't alive in 1969. In fact, my parents were only seven- and six-years-old during the 1969 baseball season. But that fact doesn't mean I don't know my history. I know that on Aug. 14, 1969 the Cubs had a 9.5...