For the last five seasons, men’s basketball has established a losing culture in DeKalb as the bottom feeders of the MAC.After winning just five games in each of the last two seasons, losing had become an expectation for the team.That has changed for...
Every football team fights it out in rain, sleet or snow, but when the Super Bowl comes around, the elements are suddenly a bad thing.This year, Super Bowl XLVIII will be played at MetLife Stadium in New Jersey, with most of the festivities surrounding...
For hardcore college basketball fans, the season started two months ago.For the March Madness college basketball fan, the season will start in two months.But for the average college basketball fan, the season started two weeks ago, when the college football...
The Bulls are getting into shape following the team’s Luol Deng trade, despite a Monday loss.The Bulls (17-19) could not get it done at home against the Washington Wizards Monday night. The Wizards snapped the Bulls’ five-game win streak, which was...
It shouldn’t be this difficult to vote for a hall of famer.The National Baseball Hall of Fame announced three players will be inducted: Greg Maddux, Frank Thomas and Tom Glavine. Maddux, Thomas and Glavine were the inductees chosen by the Baseball Writers’...
Quarterback Jordan Lynch’s nomination for the Heisman puts a cap on one of the best seasons any college football player has had.He’s the MAC’s first Heisman finalist since Chad Pennington of Marshall University in 1999 and just the third overall....
Football team’s loss was not a surpriseFrom Bowling Green’s opening drive of Friday’s MAC Championship game, I had a feeling that only confirmed itself as the game unfolded: NIU’s run was coming to a devastating end.There was an indefinable feeling...
It’s been a great couple seasons to be a football fan at NIU.The MAC Championships, MAC West titles and even a BCS berth have seen the Huskie community come together, but it could all change.Come next season, the Jordan Lynch talk will have ended, the...
Despite putting together an extremely humanlike and untimely performance in NIU’s MAC Championship loss, Jordan Lynch still deserved his invitation to New York for the Heisman Ceremony, where he will sit beside some of the other top players in college...
What was supposed to be the strength of football’s defense this season turned out to be its undoing in its 47-27 defeat against Bowling Green in the MAC Championship.All season long the Huskies played a bend: Don’t break defense. In this loss the...
Men’s and women’s basketball are just about one month into their respective seasons. After both teams had sub-par campaigns during the 2012-13 season, they are looking to rebound during the 2013-14 season. They each have gotten off to positive starts...
The one-and-done phenomena has reached its peak this season with just about every NBA general manager drooling over the likes of Kansas’ Andrew Wiggins, Duke’s Jabari Parker and Kentucky’sJulius Randle.Parker, Randle and Wiggins are the most heralded...
