"On the road again" seems to be the general theme for NIU athletic teams this weekend. Things start out tonight at 7 p.m. when the NIU gymnastics team competes in the eight-team State of Illinois Classic at Champaign. Then, on Saturday, the 3-4 Huskies'...

A three-run first inning wasn't enough as the NIU baseball squad dropped a 4-3, 11-inning decision to Tennessee Tech Sunday at Cookville, Tenn. The Huskies were within three outs of downing TTU and evening their season mark. However, the Golden Eagles...

Winter training starts Wednesday for what should be the beginning of an exciting second season of NIU baseball. When the Huskies finally play in DeKalb on March 31 against the University of Northern Iowa, they will have spent their first 21 games on the...

Onetime NIU student Gene Lamont had a lot to be thankful for over this past Thanksgiving. Lamont, who attended NIU during the fall semesters of 1965 and 1966, was named the 34th manager of the Chicago White Sox at a Comiskey Park press conference last...

NIU soccer coach Willy Roy has had an effect on a lot of lives. While Roy was being inducted to the Chicago Sports Hall of Fame last Friday, a man climbed up to the podium and worshipped the fifth-year NIU soccer coach. "You're the greatest, Willy," the...

NIU students may be facing another new ticket policy for men's home basketball games in the very near future. The Long-Range Planning Committee of the Athletic Board is currently working on a plan that would allow students to acquire tickets for all men's...

The NIU men's tennis team received a tremendous boost this year with the addition of freshman Marty Engel. Engel is playing in the No. 1 flight against the best the other schools have to offer. And he is beating them. Engel is 5-0 with two tournament...

After one and a half months of walk-on tryouts, professional scout practices and intersquad scrimmages, the NIU baseball team can rest easy. That is, the finalized baseball team. Head coach Joe "Spanky" McFarland closed out the fall campaign by making...

On the heels of the news that NIU Athletic Director Gerald O'Dell received a $3,000 raise comes the discovery that seven other athletic department personnel have gotten salary increases. Leading the way is women's basketball head coach Jane Albright,...

When the NIU baseball squad held walk-on tryouts last week, head coach Joe "Spanky" McFarland looked at over 100 players. Six of those players: Dan Bohn, Buddy Day, Greg Gargani, Sean Holton, Mike O'Donnell, and Jason Skicewicz, saw their hard work pay...

NIU has never won a national championship in basketball or football. And the baseball program is on its second year after an eight-year hiatus. So why would some of the top athletes in the country want to play at NIU? They play at NIU by choice. Actually,...

The fall season for the NIU baseball team officially began Monday afternoon. On the field, the Huskie regulars got dirty with their first day of coached practices. In the bullpen behind first base, some forty walk-ons came out to show their stuff to head...