![Los Angeles Dodgers third baseman Justin Turner celebrates after defeating the Tampa Bay Rays 3-1 to win the baseball World Series in Game 6 Tuesday, Oct. 27, 2020, in Arlington, Texas.](https://northernstar.info/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/AP20302172227420-900x600.jpg)
A recap of everything athletics from the last week of October
By Kyle Mathas
| November 2, 2020
![In this March 12, 2020, file photo, Mid-American Conference commissioner Jon Steinbrecher speaks during an NCAA college football news conference in Cleveland. The Mid-American Conference announced Friday, Sept. 25, 2020, that it will have a 6-game football season, meaning all 10 major conferences will play this fall. (AP Photo/Tony Dejak, File)](https://northernstar.info/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/AP20269761046067-900x600.jpg)
MAC volleyball, men’s and women’s soccer to be played in spring
By Jarrett Huff
| October 12, 2020
![View of the East side of Huskie Stadium Sept. 24, 2019 in DeKalb.](https://northernstar.info/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/stadium-900x600-1.jpg)
NIU, Mid-American Conference tackle issues of playing in a pandemic
By James Krause
| September 25, 2020
![Former NIU baseball Head Coach Walt Owens.](https://northernstar.info/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Walt-Owens-1-760x900.jpg)
Remembering Walt Owens: Coach, teacher, mentor
By James Krause
| September 24, 2020
![In this Aug. 10, 2020 file photo, Gov. J.B. Pritzker responds to questions during news conference in Chicago. Illinois tweaked how business owners seeking recreational marijuana licenses can apply following complaints that the process favored politically connected and rich applicants over minorities and veterans who were supposed to benefit. Pritzker, a first-term Democrat, was expected to discuss the changes at a Tuesday, Sept. 22, 2020, news conference.](https://northernstar.info/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/AP20266649084857-900x600.jpg)
Pritzker extends online sportsbook gambling registration
By Wes Sanderson
| September 22, 2020
NIU hall of famer Walt Owens dies at 87
By Northern Star Staff
| September 21, 2020
![A COVID-19 awareness sign Sept. 2, posted in view of Huskie Stadium in DeKalb.](https://northernstar.info/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/P1079899-900x582.jpg)
3 sports teams under quarantine
By James Krause
| September 18, 2020
![NIU athletics director speaks into a microphone during a press event.](https://northernstar.info/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/c9c22f284138b9031c5563302341b7db-900x601.jpg)
NIU Athletics addresses cancellation of fall sports
By Jarrett Huff
| August 8, 2020
![MAC cancels 2020 college football season](https://northernstar.info/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/mac-e1594949779689-900x635.jpg)
MAC cancels 2020 college football season
By Jarrett Huff
| August 8, 2020
![Marlins COVID-19 outbreak leads to first canceled MLB game](https://northernstar.info/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/AP20209695988846-900x600.jpg)
Marlins’ COVID-19 outbreak leads to first canceled MLB game
By Justin Kelley
| July 27, 2020
![Mid-American Conference postpones start of fall athletic season](https://northernstar.info/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/mac-e1594949779689-900x635.jpg)
Mid-American Conference postpones start of fall athletic season
By Jarrett Huff
| July 16, 2020
![This undated electron microscope image made available by the U.S. National Institutes of Health in February 2020 shows the virus that causes COVID-19. The sample was isolated from a patient in the U.S. Excitement about treating the new coronavirus with malaria drugs is raising hopes, but the evidence that they may help is thin.](https://northernstar.info/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/5e79232eb934a.image_-900x703.jpg)
NIU gymnastics cancels summer camp
By Northern Star Staff
| July 16, 2020
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