With the 2013-14 preseason starting up on Saturday, the Chicago Bulls will continue to look for a championship ring in the Derrick Rose/Tom Thibodeau era.Sports Editor Jacob Onak and sports reporter Brian Earle debate what the expectations of the Bulls...

After an historic season in which Jordan Lynch finished seventh in Heisman voting and led the football team to the Orange Bowl, the quarterback has continued to improve.At this point last season, Lynch started only four games in his NIU career but led...

DeKalb | Senior women’s golfer Jenny Niemiec has been working hard to get over her early season struggles.Niemiec has not had a great start to her senior season, carding a 163 (83-80) at the Red Bird Invitational and a 162 (81-81) at the Cougar Classic.“To...

Over the weekend, men’s rugby outran Ball State University for its first win of the season, 36-12.Team President Pat Caulfield was thrilled to get the first victory of 2013.“In this game things finally came together,” Caulfield said. “It’s what...

With its dominating victory over the Boilermakers (1-4), the Huskies (4-0) earned their second dog bone of the season and became the first team in MAC history to defeat two Big 10 teams in the same regular season.Football put together its best all-around...

The Hockey Div. II team (3-1) gave the crowd plenty to be happy about in its first games at home thisweekend.The Huskies won their games against the University of Missouri 7-1 and 9-6.“It was nice to see the offense come into their own and put a lot...

It took a complete team effort Saturday for football (4-0) to ruin Purdue’s (1-4) homecoming with a 55-24 win.The offense was in sync nearly the entire game. The special teams unit added to the attack and the defense forced the Boilermakers into multiple...

It wasn’t the kind of MAC opening weekend the women’s soccer team wanted.The Huskies (2-7-1, 0-2-0 MAC) lost their two first conference games against Eastern Michigan and Western Michigan.On Friday, the Huskies started off their MAC journey with a...

Volleyball has what it takes to make it to a fourth-straight MAC Championship match, but it will be a challenge to get there.NIU (9-7, 1-1 MAC) saw two contrasting outcomes in its conference-opening weekend against the top two teams in the MAC preseason...

Set pieces can kill in soccer, and the men’s soccer team learned that the hard way against Michigan State on Saturday.Despite having most of the possession and the creating chances off the run of play, the Huskies (3-6-0) fell 2-0 to the Spartans (5-1-1),...

Women’s cross country had its worst showing of the season, finishing 27 of 28 at the Roy Griak Invitational onSaturday.The Huskies traveled to Falcon Heights, Minn., for their first 6K of 2013.NIU beat out last-place Creighton University in the final...

DeKalb | Football (3-0) will have an opportunity to go 4-0 when it closes out its 2013 non-conference schedule against the Purdue Boilermakers (1-3) at 11 a.m. Saturday in West Lafayette, Ind.The Huskies will look to defeat two Big Ten teams in the same...