4,001 people made the life choice to attend an NIU men’s basketball game Friday night.Obviously, the opposing fan base figured into the highest attendance for an NIU basketball game since 2005. The number of Northwestern University alumni in the Chicagoland...

Sniff it. Can you smell it? College basketball is back, and before everyone throws in all the "it doesn't matter until March" nonsense, let me give you one reason that it's absolutely imperative to pay attention all season. The national champion is likely...

Well that was a good, old-fashioned butt-whoopin’. With the Huskies’ 65-30 thrashing of rival Toledo Tuesday night, they have effectively asserted their dominance on the Mid-American Conference, and can clearly be considered the class of the league....

The crowning of the Miami Heat as the 2010-11 NBA champions will be the exclamation point on why they are far more superior than the 1995-1996 Chicago Bulls. Michael Jordan and his band of scrubs weren't good enough for an NBA championship, but since...

Tonight’s game against Toledo is not the biggest football game in the NIU football program’s history. It’s not even close to being the biggest game in the last 10 years. None of that is relevant, though, because it is the biggest game NIU has been...

Rex Grossman still has it. The sports world was waiting to see if he still had it, and now they can rest easily after seeing him do what he does best on Sunday. What he still has, of course, is the ability to lose a game for his team, fashionably. With...

Oregon is the new No. 1 team in the latest BCS standings, and football fans everywhere should rejoice. Not because the Ducks' point-per-minute offense is the most exciting thing since sliced bread (seriously genius stuff). Not because Oregon is clearly...

He may not be the obvious choice, but Chandler Harnish is the MVP of the NIU football team. Sure, running back Chad Spann reached consecutive 1,000-yard rushing seasons Saturday, but Harnish showed why he is so vital to the Huskies after coming up in...

Mourn, planet Earth. A psychic octopus has died. Paul, the magical octopus who correctly predicted the results at this year's World Cup, has died at the ripe-old age of 2.5 years old. I want everyone out there to remember the good times that Paul gave...