Jeremy Gonzales will ride a 25.2 scoreless inning streak into Ohio for a Sunday start in the NIU baseball team's three-game set with the Bobcats. Gonzales earned National Pitcher of the Week honors earlier this week from the National Collegiate Baseball...
Deep in the closet of every NIU athlete, behind all the Huskie swag, is an article of clothing that represents their love for a school that doesn't rock the Cardinal and Black. While it may be hard to believe, student-athletes are not forbidden by coaches...
• Chandler Harnish and the NIU offense struggled with new installations and, as a result, weren't very productive against a stingy Huskie defense on Thursday morning. Junior-college transfer running back Jamal Womble was unable to get anything going,...
Starting pitcher Jake Hermsen and the NIU bats did just enough on Wednesday evening to squeak past Chicago State 4-2 at Gwendolyn Brooks College Preparatory Academy. NIU head coach Ed Mathey was looking to give a lot of his younger players some playing...
After a 3-2 road trip that tallied 45 runs, the Huskies could not spot one in a 7-0 loss to UIC on Wednesday afternoon at Mary M. Bell Field. In the Huskies' (16-18 overall, 6-2 MAC) first at-bat, freshman Stephanie Tofft extended her hitting streak to...
Recently resigned Saginaw boy's basketball coach Lou Dawkins contacted the Northern Star on Wednesday evening to inform the public that he had accepted an offer to become an assistant on the NIU men's basketball team. Dawkins also revealed that Saginaw...
More than four months after being hired, the Northern Star caught up with first-year head coach Dave Doeren of the NIU football team Wednesday morning. The former Wisconsin defensive coordinator filled the vacancy left by Jerry Kill, who accepted an offer...
The Miami Heat told Eddy Curry what the former Chicago Bulls center couldn't say to all those cheeseburgers he's devoured: no. After seven workouts, Heat president Pat Riley passed on adding the butterball big man to the playoff roster. Seven workouts?...
Everybody sets goals for the future, but few people actually achieve them. Former NIU softball player Krista McPherson not only reached her goal of playing college softball, but she reached a goal she had strived for long before coming to NIU: becoming...
Hours after NIU starting pitcher Jeremy Gonzales was named National Pitcher of the Week by Pro-Line Athletic, the Huskies’ Tony Manville turned in a solid performance on the mound in a 4-1 win at Illinois State. The National Collegiate Baseball Writers...
The Huskies are back home to take on in-state rival UIC today at 5 p.m. at Mary M. Bell Field. Coming off a 3-1 weekend of conference play at Buffalo and Kent State, NIU (16-17 overall, 6-2 MAC) is taking a break from MAC action. The Huskies dropped their...
It’s probably good that junior-college transfer Jamal Womble never saw Chad Spann run for the NIU football team. Spann racked up 49 career touchdowns to go along with 2,916 rushing yards in his four years in DeKalb. In 2010, he picked up the Vern...
