On Saturday, the Kent State men's basketball team will enter the Convocation Center with 21 straight wins against MAC West opponents.The Golden Flashes' (16-7, 7-2 MAC) streak is bad news for an NIU squad coming off two ugly losses on the road to MAC...
Playing indoors has come to an end as the NIU softball team gets on the dirt today in Texas to begin its 2011 campaign. The Huskies will participate in two Texas tournaments, as well as playing in Colorado, California and Nevada before taking the field...
When Kerri Strug vaulted the United States' gymnastics team to Olympic gold in 1996, Maggie Cimarolli was too young to remember if she saw it live. As a fellow gymnast, however, she has seen the historic moment on tape and aspires to one day accomplish...
Coming off of its loss two weeks ago at Central Michigan, the NIU gymnastics team (1-4 overall, 1-2 MAC) is set to take on conference rival Western Michigan (5-4 Overall 2-0 MAC) on the road Sunday. Despite the loss two weeks ago, NIU head coach Mark...
Playing in Oxford, Ohio on Wednesday night, the NIU men's basketball team went down quietly to Miami (OH), 84-72. NIU (7-15 overall, 3-7 MAC) never led and trailed by double-digits for much of the night. Miami (12-12, 7-3) put the game out of reach for...
Countless numbers of NCAA athletes graduate, take a day job, and abandon their dreams of reaching the professional level. NIU has never been known for getting basketball players to the pro level, but alumnus James Hughes, who graduated in 2007, is one...
E.C. Hill knows a thing or two about NIU basketball.She's done about all you could with the Huskies: six years as an assistant coach, a two-time player MVP and she's an NIU Hall of Famer. Not a shabby resume. Hill took some time to talk with the Northern...
Entrenched in a disappointing 7-14 season, there is perhaps no better time than now to discuss potential recruits for the NIU men's basketball team. NIU has been keeping tabs on class of 2012 point guard Fred Van Vleet since the 2009-10 season. Assistant...
A freshman athlete will sometimes look up to an upperclassman as an example they'd like to emulate. When the NIU women's basketball team met the incoming freshman this season, the coaches wanted to pair the underclassmen with players they could connect...
Sundance Wicks' basketball career has taken him around the globe, from South Dakota to Europe and back to the states again. The Northern Star sat down with Wicks to both pick his basketball mind and learn how he became a DJ in college. Northern Star:...
Luzzi signs seven to soccer class of 2011 "Chicago Sun-Times'" player of the year Paul Hogan highlights a seven-player recruiting class for the NIU men's soccer team. NIU head coach Eric Luzzi announced the signings last Friday. Hogan scored 26 goals...
It can be a struggle for Rick Cerrone to talk about his career without someone accusing him of being a "name dropper."With business contacts like Robert Redford, Alex Rodriguez, and Keith Olbermann, though, it would be hard for Shakespeare to sound modest...
