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...

This isn't Kansas anymore. This is a fact senior forward Egan Grafel, a native of Oberlin, Kan., found out last year when he transferred from the junior college ranks into Division I. But a tireless work ethic and an early-season sit-down with NIU men's...

While many freshmen are undecided about what they want to do, one student has hit the ground running. Distance runner Sunsea Shaw, a native of South Bend, Ind., was recruited to join NIU's cross country team after playing the sport for one year. "I only...

It was late at night, around 11 or so, when Anthony Mason Sr. stepped outside. Senior forced himself to walk out into the darkness, calling for his son. The father hated to do it, but he had to call him to bed. Otherwise the youngster would stay out all...

I threw out of a parking lot and qualified for nationals. What's your excuse? NIU thrower Ashley Morrow wanted that slogan on a T-shirt. All season, she practiced throwing, but not from a track, in a track facility or even in the grass. No, she, along...