Hockey is Canada's pasttime, so it makes sense that any university sharing a lake border with the country would have an advantage against NIU. In a battle of Northern schools this past weekend, the Northern Michigan University Wildcats (4-4-0) defeated...
I’m sorry, I thought this was America. Where the only thing that matters is winning.Apparently not, because Felix Hernandez just might win the AL Cy Young Award.Now, I realize that the ESPN hype machine has probably already gotten to you, and you are...
When play wrapped up at the NIU Soccer Complex this weekend, the NIU women’s soccer team had added another win and its first draw to its already impressive home record.NIU opened up the weekend’s action Friday with a late afternoon contest against...
In back-to-back matches, the Huskies have gone five sets with the end result being a win. After beating MAC West rival Western Michigan (12-5, 3-1 MAC) on Thursday, the Huskies traveled to Ohio on Sunday for a cross-division match-up against Miami (OH)...
Five years ago, when NIU took on Akron, a dark chapter in Huskie history was written as the Zips won the MAC Championship on a Hail Mary pass with seconds remaining in the game. A 27-10 victory in 2009 was one measure of redemption, but NIU apparently...
“It’s a [expletive] kick in the teeth.”Junior defender Francis Otira, along with the rest of the NIU men’s soccer team, was feeling the pain after falling to Hartwick 1-0 in its MAC opener Saturday afternoon.“It hurts and it needs to hurt because...
It took five sets, but NIU volleyball came away with a division win against Western Michigan Thursday night.With the win, the Huskies (16-2, 2-1 MAC) snapped not only the Broncos’ (11-5, 2-1) five-match win streak this season, but also the seven-match...
Everyone should know who is ultimately responsible for the Blackhawks’ salary cap surge of the summer of 2010. The culprits are Brian Campbell and the man who signed him, former General Manager Dale Tallon. Just like Cristobal Huet was awarded a huge...
And with this, the real season begins. After taking down Minnesota, NIU football will play its fourth game on the road, travelling to Akron, Ohio to open up its MAC slate against the Zips. The Huskies (2-2) are coming off their best game of the season,...
Games in the Mid-American Conference are typically filled with very physical play and a lot of energy and don't expect anything less for the NIU men's soccer conference opener. The Huskies open up MAC play at 1 p.m. Saturday against Hartwick in DeKalb...
MEN'S RUGBY The NIU rugby team continued winning in dominating fashion this past weekend as it defeated the University of Illinois at Chicago at home, 73-0. The team saw its second dominating win in a row as it defeated Loyola two weeks earlier, 107-8....
Akron - Jeremy LaFrance, WR Aside from 37 points in a loss to Gardner-Webb the Zips' offense has scored a combined 33 points in its other three games. Leading that offense is senior wide receiver Jeremy LaFrance, who enters Saturday with 17 catches for...
