The NIU baseball team originally had March 26 circled on its calendar; it was to be the day the Huskies would play the Aurora Spartans in their first home game of the year. The Huskies will still play the Spartans on Tuesday - but at Aurora's Snell Field....

Thursday appeared to be the day the NIU baseball team would win its first game of the season. For a while, that is. The Huskies dropped both ends of an afternoon doubleheader at Chicago State by the scores of 4-3 and 8-2. In the first game, NIU (0-9)...

The NIU baseball team has a magic number ... of sorts. After Thursday, it remains the same. NIU's magic number has been stuck on one since the beginning of the season. The number's diminishment to zero, which will occur only after the Huskies win a game,...

March madness in college basketball has a certain attribute, one of feverish excitement that attracts millions of fans each year. The 1991 NCAA Tournament has lived up to that excitement and now that the "Sweet Sixteen" teams in the nation have been determined,...

It may be hard to believe that amid the freezing temperatures and the ongoing excitement of NIU's basketball squads, baseball season starts Saturday for NIU. The Huskies' Saturday contest against St. Louis will mark the resurrection of the NIU baseball...

Believe it or not, there's only 45 days left for NIU baseball coach Joe "Spanky" McFarland to get his gang ready for the 1991 season. March 9th is the official date that McFarland will display his revival of an NIU baseball program that has been defunct...

The NFL is wrong in its hypocritical pursuit to make the world a better place. orse yet, the league's actions send the false signal that Arizona is more racist than other states. A signal that no one should tolerate, let alone believe. If you've been...

So much attention is focused on NIU's head baseball coach, Joe "Spanky" McFarland, that the others involved in the revival of the baseball program get shoved under the rug at times. Yet, the rest of McFarlands' gang plays a prominent role in the rebuilding...

NIU Intercollegiate Athletics has named Tom Mitchell as Associate Athletic Director for Development and Tommy Bell as Assistant Athletic Director of Chapter Development, Athletic Director Gerald K. O'Dell announced Oct. 22. "We're positioning ourselves...

Six former Huskies will be inducted into NIU's Hall of Fame Oct. 5 as part of the 83rd Homecoming weekend festivities, but there will be no celebrating by some former NIU male gymnasts. Allegations have surfaced that members of the men's gymnastics program...

Coach Spanky McFarland jumped the first hurdle in the building of the baseball program on Friday. McFarland now has an official team to coach. The team consists of 32 players and is top-heavy in the pitching department. "I kept 15 pitchers," McFarland...