When it comes to setting the tone, Jimmie Ward is always in business.Through 14 career games as an NIU safety, the sophomore has made a habit out of blocking punts. He struck again Saturday night.Ward blocked Kolin Ward's punt on the first possession...

Amidst a muddy mess of fans, students and over-zealous cops, NIU football played like the very rain that drenched Brigham Field Saturday, pouring the points on the Black Knights of Army in a 49 to 26 victory.Despite being soaked to the bone and dealing...

Be careful what you wish for. For a few years now, I had been itching to see Adam Dunn launching balls onto the concourse at U.S. Cellular Field. Unfortunately, the only launching associated with Dunn is in the form of obscenities from White Sox fans....

Pat Summitt is a legend in women's college basketball. She's won eight national championships, accumulated the NCAA record for all-time victories, both men and women's basketball, and is a hall-of-famer. Tennessee's head coach has done it all, but her...

Saying that the offensive line for the NIU football team should be a strength is an understatement. The Huskies return all of their starters from a year ago and are coming off a season in which they only surrendered 13 sacks, good enough for 14th in the...

There have been talks of the beloved Chicago Cubs moving away from their longtime home on the North Side: Wrigley Field. For many, this is absurd and should be thrown out of conversation. However, I believe there would be nothing better for the Cubs to...

Does Roy Williams have a never-ending case of being atrocious at football?The Chicago Bears' offseason addition has looked sluggish and careless through the first two preseason games.I'm not one to harp on players throughout the course of the exhibition...

A friend of mine recently told me not to turn on the news because there was nothing new being reported. He was right, especially from a college football standpoint, where it seems history is doomed to repeat itself. Last week, Yahoo! Sports released a...

Living life on the fringe is hard.For a MAC team, it shouldn't seem out of the ordinary.The NIU football team should find it a bit harder to swallow, however, because they are coming off a good season in which they won a school-record 11 wins.While the...

James Harrison, Pro-Bowl linebacker for the Pittsburgh Steelers and the most fined player in the game because of his vicious hits on opposing players, blasted teammates, colleagues, coaches and NFL commissioner Roger Goodell in a recent article that came...

As a White Sox fan, I know my team is struggling. They were predicted to finish second in the AL Central division, perhaps even contend for first place, and were a dark horse candidate for the World Series.So you can imagine my disappointment.I'm a die-hard...

Don't call me Aristotle, but how can something so obvious to some people be completely lost to others? The something, or someone in this case, I'm referring to is White Sox prospect, Dayan Viciedo. And, the some people are the hierarchy of the Sox brass,...