Former NIU head baseball coach Darrel Black, 77, died last week at Kishwaukee Community Hospital. A memorial service for Black was held on July 21 at the Jacobsen Funeral Home in Shabbona. Black coached at NIU from 1956 to 1963. His won-lost-tied record...

Worries over equal treatment of women's athletics have been sweeping the country. This of course raises the question, how does NIU rank in its treatment of women's sports? Does NIU treat women's sports equally with men's in terms of publicity, financial...

Huskie fans can enjoy the weather and see the NIU baseball team play at home for the first time a little early this year. Due to bad field conditions at Chicago State, tomorrow's doubleheader showdown with the Cougars has been moved to the friendly confines...

A stampede of Razorbacks took advantage of NIU pitching during Saturday's doubleheader on the astroturf in Fayetteville, Ark., forcing the Huskies to drop two, and bring their winless streak to five. In the first game of the twinbill, Arkansas (13-5)...

The good news was that the Huskie baseball squad produced two runs on seven hits Saturday against the Razorbacks. The bad news was that SEC power Arkansas churned out 12 runs on 15 hits as they defeated NIU, 12-2, in Fayetteville's George Cole Field....

The NIU athletic department plans to announce a major renovation project for Huskie Stadium later this spring. The project will involve two phases to improve the present seating and other spectator facilities. When asked why the stadium is in need of...

NIU baseball head coach Joe "Spanky" McFarland is thinking spring already. Why is he doing this, you may ask? According to a recent issue of Collegiate Baseball magazine, the Huskies have one of the top recruiting classes in the nation. The publication...

Think you had a good summer job? Your summer job probably was not as good as NIU senior Tom O'Neill's. O'Neill, an economics major, made $850 a month playing professional baseball in the San Francisco Giants organization. Last season's Huskie second baseman...

Baseball scouts from the Cubs, White Sox, Brewers, Phillies, Dodgers and Astros were all out at McKinzie Field last Friday scouting players from the NIU baseball team. NIU head coach Joe "Spanky" McFarland conducted an open scout session and impressed...

The NIU baseball team will get a chance to display their talents at McKinzie Field Friday afternoon when a group of major-league scouts visit DeKalb to see which Huskies have the skills to play at the major-league level. Head coach Joe "Spanky" McFarland...

NIU soccer coach Willy Roy had some very good things to say about his team Wednesday after its opening day victory—2-1 over the University of Erlangen. "We defeated a very good technical team," Roy said. "It was a team that was much more mature than...

When two teams are struggling, the best cure is to score as many runs as possible. In a game that lasted nearly four hours, NIU's baseball team used timely hits and plenty of Northwestern miscues to bash the Wildcats 19-11 at the Kane County Events Center...