Runners for NIU women’s cross country didn’t expect to be midseason without a coach. But after former cross country and track and field coach Shantel Twiggs took a head track position at the University of Nevada-Reno in mid-September, they decided...

In a two-week span, the NIU women’s soccer team has dropped three of its last four games and has fallen from third to a tie for eighth place in the MAC. The Huskies (4-3-4 overall, 1-2-4 MAC) will try to use the comforts of home this weekend in order...

NIU football coach Joe Novak said he’s seen big donations of late toward an indoor athletic facility. “We’re still in the process,” Novak said. “It’s still the top priority for us.” There are no current plans to build an indoor practice...

Editor’s note: Five minutes with is a weekly question and answer session with someone in NIU athletics. It is intended to show the lighter side of an athlete. Sophomore middle blocker Kate McCullagh has emerged as an offensive force for the NIU volleyball...

With usual starters Sam Hurd and Shatone Powers serving one-game suspensions, true freshman Marcus Perez didn’t miss a beat filling in. Out of high school, Perez, also a baseball and track star, said he didn’t receive any scholarship offers for football....

NIU’s new athletics director Jim Phillips grew up as one of 10 kids on Chicago’s north-west side. A former University of Illinois student, he is happy to return to Illinois from South Bend, Ind. where he served as the associate athletics director...

From the success of the football team to the futility of the men’s basketball squad, NIU sports saw their share of surprises during the 2003-’04 school year. The remaining 14 NIU sports were no different, as there were many individuals who emerged...

NIU Sports Information Director Mike Korcek considers himself an avid collector of comic books. So when Korcek’s co-worker, Associate Sports Information Director Robert Hester, was asked if one could compare Korcek to the comic hero Superman, he said,...

In football, it is rare for one play to define a single season. But it happened on Saturday. NIU, bringing its best team in 20 years to Toledo, had a chance to break a nine-game losing streak against the Rockets and make things a lot more interesting...

Riverside-Brookfield High School football coach Otto Zeman said Britt Davis is the No. 1 player in the state. Davis backs that up by saying he’s No. 1. Now, all NIU wants is for Britt to say the Huskies are No. 1. I The 6-foot-3 senior quarterback lists...

Coach Shantel Twiggs’ freshman class for the NIU track and field team has gone above and beyond expectations during the indoor season and was able to come away with a second place, 109-point finish at the Central Michigan Quadrangular Saturday. Freshman...