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...
In each of the last three seasons, football’s senior class has set a new mark as the most winningest class in the history of NIU. This season has been no different as this senior class set a new record with 46 wins.The previous record was set last season...
Whether they want to admit it or not, Heisman voters have been forced to call a spade a spade as Jordan Lynch has become a legitimate contender in an undetermined Heisman race.Lynch has been the best player in college football this season while remaining...
