Buying low is the greatest feeling in fantasy football, and it’s open season.It’s Week 4, which means bye weeks are starting to roll through lineups and fantasy football owners are going to get a little desperate in the trade market. More importantly,...

With the non-conference season over, women’s soccer is headed to MAC play, where it’ll face an uphill battle.The preseason MAC coaches’ poll picked NIU to finish last in the MAC West Division. If the Huskies are going to flip that around, they’ll...

Saturday’s football game only helped to hammer home the point that the SEC is the premier college football conference in the land.The Huskies (3-1) went into Donald W. Reynolds Razorback Stadium in Fayetteville, Ark., with hopes of being the first MAC...

Football (3-0) is seeking to close non-conference play with an unblemished record for the second straight year. The Huskies take on the Arkansas Razorbacks (2-1) 6 p.m. Saturday at Donald W. Reynolds Razorback Stadium in Fayetteville, Ark. Sports Editor...

Football (2-0) continues its three-game road trip with a visit to Sin City. The Huskies take on the Nevada-Las Vegas Rebels (1-1) 6 p.m. Saturday at Sam Boyd Stadium in Las Vegas. Sports Editor Frank Gogola breaks down the UNLV players to watch.Quarterback:...

Week one came and went and no doubt you’re disappointed in your fantasy team.Running back depth is pretty hard to establish; they’re prone to injury and teams are putting more emphasis on the passing game. Once again, I’ve returned to help you put...

Kirk Herbstreit is trying to right the ship regarding his 2012 comments on NIU and the MAC.The ESPN College GameDay analyst received backlash from Huskie nation after he declared on national television the decision to include NIU in the 2013 Discover...

NIU (2-0) could boast that it’s been the best college football program in the Land of Lincoln over the past decade-plus, and it wouldn’t be wrong.But, it wasn’t until Saturday the Huskies earned the bragging rights to back up their claim of being...

No punishments handed down by the NFL make sense.Ray Rice’s career abruptly stalled when TMZSports released a video Monday showing he beat his fiancée — now wife — Janay Palmer inside an elevator and then dragged the unconscious Palmer out of the...

Fantasy football is back, baby.Wide receiver is probably one of the more difficult positions to draft unless you’ve picked up Calvin Johnson, A.J. Green or Dez Bryant. They’re wildly inconsistent, especially if they play on teams quarterbacked by...

If women’s soccer is going to make it past the first round of the MAC Tournament it will have to get comfortable on the road fast.After last season’s winless road campaign, the Huskies have started out this season 0-4 on the road. Although four games...

Sports editor Frank Gogola previews the MAC football landscape and gives his predictions for where each team will finish. Today he previews the MAC West Division. His MAC East Division preview was in Tuesday’s Northern Star and can be found online:...