DeKALB |During NIU volleyball’s Salvani Spring Play Date on March 26 at the Campus Recreation Center, I observed a type of camaraderie for the first time while at Northern: alumni were trash talking the current Huskies. It was not so much the trash...

Katie Leb: Jimmy, now that NIU’s baseball and softball teams have played some games at home, it is time to judge them. Unlike other NIU sports, these players get the opportunity to choose a personalized song to be played when they walk up to the plate....

Virginia Commonwealth University didn't deserve to play in the NCAA Tournament. As a college basketball fanatic, I enjoyed the Rams' run to the Final Four as much as anyone. But the excitement and theater of a certified Cinderella story has brought one...

Joe Morgan, Joe Morgan, Joe Morgan. That is all anybody heard when Joe Morgan was in the broadcast booth for a "Sunday Night Baseball" game. The self-indulgent Morgan would usually sneak in at least 2-3 stories about himself in each and every broadcast...

Tears will most likely be shed at some point by Chicago Cubs fans this season.Yet North Side fans shouldn't get the water works started over seeing Ryan Theriot in a St. Louis Cardinals uniform.The Riot's departure to the Cubs' division rival was seen...

Aurora had nothing to lose going into Wednesday evening's game against the NIU baseball team. The Division III Spartans' head coach Shaun Neitzel thought the game would be a learning experience at best. After all, the last time NIU and Aurora met in 1994,...

You've got to hand it to LeBron James for his latest arrogant incident. Tuesday night, the Miami Heat rolled into play James' former team, the Cleveland Cavaliers. Cavs fans waited anxiously to pelt James with boos, and even some obscenities once he was...

You fart in a lecture hall. You forget to do your taxes. You said something absurdly embarrassing last night at a party. Slip-ups, mistakes, whatever you want to call them; they happen to us all. Including the invincible Chicago Bulls. The currently top-seeded...

Andrew Singer: In the span of three and a half months, NIU Athletic Director Jeff Compher has made two major hires. In the weekend before the uDrove Humanitarian Bowl, Compher hired Wisconsin defensive coordinator Dave Doeren as the NIU football team's...

Jose Canseco is more than a dumb jock. He is a really dumb jock. El Nuevo Herald reported something that would be rather unbelievable if it were not Canseco. He was supposedly appearing for a celebrity boxing match at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel &...

DeKALB | I didn't think Jim Hendry had it in him. Naturally, I thought the Chicago Cubs general manager would play the sourpuss card and not eat Carlos Silva's $11.5 million contract for 2011. Boy was I wrong. Hendry and Cubs ownership finally took out...

They liked Derrick Rose before you did. Now that you like him, though, they suddenly aren't so interested in the Chicago Bulls' point guard getting that coveted MVP award. "They" are the hipster members of the media. The people that refuse to vote for...