NIU's all-time saves leader, Matt German, is having success in the minor leagues. The left-hander has struck out 17 batters in 15 1/3 innings, averaging more than one strikeout per inning for the Clearwater Threshers. The Threshers are a Class A affiliate...

Twelve years ago, Connie Teaberry led a different life in track and field. In 1996, Teaberry took part in the Olympic games in Atlanta, where she competed in the high jump. These days, Teaberry coaches women's track and field and cross country at NIU,...

The Huskies' volleyball team wrapped up its successful spring competition last weekend. NIU finished the 24-match set with 14 wins. Eight of those games were played at NIU's own Campus Recreation Center in the Salvini Spring Playdate. The Huskies went...

NIU men's golf couldn't find itself on the right side of par this past weekend, as the team competed in the Boilermaker Invitational in West Lafayette, Ind. The Huskies placed 13th out of 14 teams. As a group, NIU tallied a total score of 900, putting...

Alex Friesen watched his 13-match winning streak come to an end on Sunday as the Huskies men's tennis team (8-6 overall, 1-2 MAC) fell to the Toledo Rockets in a 4-3 decision. Friesen's streak snapped when he and his doubles partner fell to the No. 2...

Huskie football fans will have a final chance to say "thank you" and "goodbye" to former NIU head coach Joe Novak. On April 25, NIU will host an open house at the Yordon Center for Novak and his wife, Carole. The open house will be from 4 to 6 p.m. The...

With the NIU campus closed after the Feb. 14 shootings, NIU suspended all athletic competitions until Feb. 25. Twenty-seven contests in men's and women's basketball, gymnastics, baseball, softball, men's and women's tennis, wrestling, women's track and...

King of the Hill NIU wrestler Pat Castillo now stands alone. The senior is now the top wrestler at 133 pounds according to the new MAC wrestling rankings, which were released Feb. 28. Castillo was previously tied at first with Kent State's Dan Mitcheff...

The Chicago Tribune is reporting that NIU athletic director Jim Phillips will accept the same position at Northwestern University later this week. Phillips became NIU's athletic director in August 2004 and replaced former NIU athletic director Cary Groth....

The NIU women's track team swept its competition and returned with a first-place finish Saturday at the Tadd Metzger Invitational. The Huskies scored 197 points with eight first-place finishes while winning every field event except the pole vault. NIU...

It's not Ron Santo or Pat Hughes, but he's still a Chicago Cubs broadcaster who will be in town. Former Oakland Athletic, Cleveland Indian, Pittsburgh Pirate and Chicago Cub Dave Otto will be the keynote speaker at this year's NIU Baseball Leadoff Banquet....

If I had a dollar for every column that blasts the ineptitude of the Bowl Championship Series, you wouldn't be reading this column, because I'd be retired on a beach somewhere in the South Pacific. The preposterousness of the whole system rears its ugly...