The consensus of the Huskies football coaches and players coming into Saturday's 6:35 p.m. game against Kansas State is that the Wildcats are a much improved team from last year's 1-10 record. "Kansas State is a good football team. They've done a real...

There's no need to look under piles of offensive or defensive statistics to find the Kansas State Wildcats' most eye-opening number. The Wildcats are straddling a historical line as they bring a 2-0 record into Huskie Stadium Saturday night. It is the...

Saturday's contest will be perhaps the most critical game to date for NIU's football team, as it tries to break its losing jinx at Toledo University's Glass Bowl. NIU (1-1) has lost 10 of its last 11 at the newly renovated glass bowl including eight in...

Act One: The setting: Moscow, Idaho, the home of the University of Idaho, 1984-86. A party, a bar (drinking age was 19 at the time), a friend's home, wherever. I was a freshman then a sophomore, far from home, bright but confused—torn between doing...

It's out of the frying pan and into the fire for the Huskie basketball team. On the heels of NIU's 70-67 loss in Miami to Florida International last Saturday, the Huskies (9-8) hit the road again to face a tough 13-8 Evansville squad tonight at 7:30....

Coach Jim Molinari and his Huskies recently had one streak broken and are hoping to break another one tonight. The streak the Huskies hope to break is their six-game road losing streak tonight against Valparaiso at 7:30. The streak NIU didn't want to...

NIU's 42-21 loss to Louisiana Tech on Saturday dropped its record to 4-2 at the midway point of the 1989 season. Head football coach Jerry Pettibone, however, expected more. "I felt that the only team that was better than us starting off, on paper, was...

The NIU soccer team looks to stay undefeated at home today when the Huskies put their 5-0-0 home record on the line against the Wildcats of Northwestern. The Huskies (7-2-1) are coming off a defeat at the hands of St. Louis University, 2-0. The game was...

It's time to turn up the intensity for the NIU Field Hockey team as it takes the Cardinal and Black into Huskie Stadium for the Midwest Collegiate Field Hockey Conference opener today against the Buckeyes of Ohio State. The face-off for the game is at...

When Jeff Wilson's line drive was snared by Central Michigan's second baseman on May 22, 1982, the season and the NIU baseball program had come to an end. More than seven years after CMU swept the Huskies by scores of 12-0 and 13-0 in that season-ending...

Success isn't just found on the playing field for the NIU field hockey players. The Huskies had their best season ever since NIU coach Lauri Bell took over the helm three years ago. The Huskies finished their season last fall with an overall 15-3-1 mark...

There's no need to remind NIU women's basketball coach Jane Albright about the last two games. The fifth-year Huskie boss is well aware of her team's recent losses to DePaul and Southern Illinois, and knows that tonight's 7:00 road matchup against Valparaiso...