In a sport like track and field, where the majority of the events the athletes are running against the clock, every 10th of a second matters. Nowhere is this fact more apparent than in sprinting events like the 100 meters, 200 meters, 400 meters and the...
When it comes to playing at home and playing away, most people think the only difference is being home you have the crowd advantage, but that isn’t the only thing. When it comes to having to go to an away match there’s a lot of things that have to...
Going into the season, I was unsure what baseball’s strength was going to be. It has been made clear to me over the last couple of weeks the depth of the Huskies’ starting pitching is its most valuable asset. The Huskies have three very reliable options...
With the culmination of the gymnastics season Saturday at Western Michigan, there are factors that are good and bad for the future of the NIU squad. Obviously, the first problem is NIU losing two seniors. Marisa Liptak is one of the highest scoring members...
With the NCAA men’s basketball tournament coming up, everybody is going to turn their attention and watch if their team can make it to the next round of the tournament. In the 2013 NCAA tournament, the No. 1 seeds are Louisville (29-5) in the Midwest,...
Men’s tennis team will play just one more match before heading into conference play, and one player to keep an eye on is Frederic Cadieux. Cadieux is a sophomore business major from Quebec, Canada, and attended Ediuard-Montpetit High School. He’s...
The women’s gymnastics did not end the regular season in the fashion it would have liked. The Huskies had been on a run of four consecutive 194 scores, but came up with back-to-back 192s to finish the regular meet schedule. All that awaits the team...
Year one of the Mark Montgomery era as NIU men’s basketball’s head coach didn’t get off to a good start, and year two was no different. The Huskies (5-25, 3-13 MAC) suffered their seventh consecutive 20-loss season. This is their second 20-loss...
Jurgen Klinsmann, U.S. soccer head coach, has released his 23-man roster for the upcoming World Cup Qualifiers against Costa Rica and Mexico. As we see in the roster selection, injuries have really put the U.S.’s back against the wall. The Yanks will...
The football program is coming off its most successful run in school history, repeating as MAC champions and earning the first BCS game in MAC history but the 2013 season schedule seems less than desirable, especially considering what happened over winter...
Women’s tennis has a 12-1 record and someone that has contributed to that success is No. 1 player Nelle Youel. Youel is a sophomore pre-physical therapy major from Crystal Lake. She attended Crystal Lake Central High School. Youel decided to go to NIU...
The Chicago Bears putting the franchise tag on defensive tackle Henry Melton is proof they are going to try and make a run at the Super Bowl in 2013-14. The franchise tag guarantees a player the average of the top five salaries at his position. In the...
