This year, the NIU football team can look forward to heading into the season with a winning record under its belt. Next year, the squad can look forward to having a part of the Best-of-the-West on its side. NIU's coaching staff has landed the Chicago...

The Huskies came out smoking in the first half of Saturday night's exhibition game against Club Rio Claro, Brazil and built a 44-40 halftime lead, which NIU later saw disappear. A six-minute stretch of the second half, during which the Huskies couldn't...

In the realm of sports, a place most people deem as a "man's world," one woman has entered the sacred territory. She is the commissioner of the Gateway Conference, and she is the only woman to supervise a man's sport. She is Patty Viverito. The NIU graduate...

Members of the NIU Athletic Board sounded off Wednesday about what they see as disregard within the administration for the board's advisory capacity. Citing past examples of committee action on athletic department matters without Athletic Board participation,...

After four years as an NIU assistant football coach, Ted Huber will spend his last day on the Huskie Stadium turf Saturday. The 45-year-old Huber will move to Warsaw, Ind., in late May where he will take a head coaching and physical education teaching...

The NIU athletic department has "indicated some interest" in becoming affiliated with Association of Mid-Continent Universities conference, league commissioner F.L. Ferzacca said Tuesday. Ferzacca said he spoke with NIU Athletic Director Gerald O'Dell...

Rodney Davis reached a milestone Thursday, but he would have traded the accomplishment in for just one win. The senior point guard scored his 1,000th career point against Florida International last night but the feat wasn't enough to stop NIU's losing...

Looking on the bright side of things, the NIU women's basketball team will walk into the Michigan game Sunday never having lost to them. But then again, the Huskies have never played the Big Ten Wolverines. The 2 p.m. match at Chick Evans Field House...

NIU's men gymnasts begin their regular season Saturday, Jan. 9, in the Midwest Open Invitational at Chick Evans Field House. The tournament begins with the preliminary round at 11 a.m. The top eight gymnasts from each event advance to compete in the finals...

The NIU athletic department has been given a major opportunity to improve itself, an opportunity which it should not waste. The university is deep in the process of choosing a new athletic director to head both men's and women's athletics. The decision...

During the past six weeks, as the 26 major league baseball teams have gone through the paces of spring training, the catch-phrase "undergoing a youth movement" has popped up a few times. Over at Huskie Stadium, the NIU football team has a youth movement...

A combination of timely hitting and improved pitching carried the NIU softball team to a third-place finish this weekend in the Southern Illinois Saluki Invitational. The Huskies beat Ball State and Illinois State on Friday before losing to Evansville...