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Northern Star

The Student News Site of Northern Illinois University

Northern Star

The Student News Site of Northern Illinois University

Northern Star

Baseball shakes off rust for tournament

By James Nokes | February 16, 2006

After a 19-day layoff, the NIU baseball team will take the field Feb. 24 through 26 at the Evansville Tournament. NIU is set to play Eastern Illinois, Evansville and Wisconsin-Milwaukee for the three-day tournament. The Huskies are currently 0-3 on the...

Fiery Broncos thump Huskies

By James Nokes | January 19, 2006

For one of the few times this season, the Western Michigan women’s basketball team fired on all cylinders last night in Kalamazoo. WMU burst out of the gate with dead-eye 12 of 13 field goal attempt accuracy, and posted a convincing 78-65 final verdict....

NIU hosts Spartans at Convo

By Ben Gross | November 22, 2005

The NIU men’s basketball team will search for its first win of the season against the Spartans this Saturday at the Convocation Center. The game, starting at 4:05 p.m., won’t be against the well-known Michigan State Spartans of the Big Ten, but the...

Injury brings out NIU’s best

By Nathan Lindquist | November 7, 2005

On ESPN Saturday night, college football analyst Mark May gave a game helmet to senior wide receiver Sam Hurd for his 12-catch, 266-yard performance against Central Michigan. He also should have handed out two more helmets; one each to Dan Nicholson and...

Breaking it Down

By Nathan Lindquist | November 2, 2005

After completing season No. 5 of franchise mode in Madden 2006, calling a play in a real football game is easy, right? Well for all the armchair quarterbacks out there, it's not. On actual turf, more coordination and execution is involved than most people...

Athletic partners range from corporate to local

By Sean Connor | October 19, 2005

With donations ranging from world-wide corporations to the home-town bar and grill, the NIU Athletics Department partially funds its 496 athletes and 17 athletic programs. Gatorade, Adidas, Pepsi, Allstate, Applebee’s, Castle Bank, Fatty’s, Culver’s...

Wolfe, Harris out with injuries

By Nathan Lindquist | October 18, 2005

NIU football coach Joe Novak is thankful for his depth at running back right about now. Starting junior running back Garrett Wolfe and senior backup A.J. Harris both suffered injuries in Saturday’s game versus Eastern Michigan that will likely keep...

Specialist

By Sean Connor | September 27, 2005

Call him the waiter, mailman, the dime-dropper or simply the playmaker. Junior Jose Alvarado of the NIU men’s soccer team has become a master of the assist in his three years as a Huskie. NIU went 3-0-1 to start the season before losing two games in...

Women’s soccer hopes to get back on winning track

By James Nokes | September 23, 2005

It’s been almost 20 days since the NIU women’s soccer team’s last win, a 1-0 victory at DePaul Sept. 4. The Huskies since have been forced to settle for a tie and two losses, but coach Marci Miller’s motto will remain the same going into the first...

Welcoming you to the world of NIU sports

August 18, 2005

Welcome to NIU, the home of the Huskies. We’re excited you will be with us and hope to see you at one of the many athletics events throughout the year. To be sure, exciting things are happening in Huskie athletics. Our football team, the 2004 Silicon...

Phillips replaces long-time AD Groth

By Nathan Lindquist | May 9, 2005

Top 5 sports stories of the 2004-05 school year... as voted on by the Northern Star sports staff. With many big events throughout the school year, many notable stories were left off the list. After spending more than 20 years in the NIU athletics department,...

New facility good for university, but plans for more are needed

By Sean Connor | April 26, 2005

No more will NIU football coach Joe Novak have to use the Convocation Center as the prime recruiting venue. No more will NIU athletes have to weight train in Huskie Stadium’s junior college-type weight room. And no more will NIU be at the butt-end of...

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