Coming off a successful run to the MAC Championship game a year ago, the NIU women's soccer team has high expectations for the upcoming season. "Our goal is to make it to make the tournament and once we get in there, we want to win the championship,"...

It happens every fall. I fall in love. As the flood waters retreat, and sweltering heat of summer and the tropical rainforest-like humidity that has invaded the Chicagoland area dissipate, kids will get back to school, leaves will start to turn, and in...

DeKALB | Just because they're freshmen doesn't mean NIU men's soccer coach Steve Simmons new recruiting class won't get a chance to be on the field this season. College Soccer News has ranked NIU's nine new soccer players as the 38th-best recruiting class...

DeKALB | Exposure continues for the NIU football team. The Huskies will have six more games televised this season, to bring the total up to nine televised NIU games. Sept. 15 game against Eastern Michigan in DeKalb and Sept. 29 game at Central Michigan...

For the first time in a long time, charisma, energy and life filled the Convocation Center. And no, I'm not talking about the Pep Band - although it was a nice touch for the occasion. No, all the excitement was provided by a man with a microphone. As...

DeKALB | A master chef knows when to add the proper ingredient at just the right time. That seems to be the overall consensus around the NIU soccer program on National Signing Day. For NIU men's soccer coach Steve Simmons, the metaphor proves to be even...

DeKALB | The NIU gymnastics team got off on the wrong foot of the MAC Sunday as the Huskies lost to Bowling Green 190.200 - 188.225 in their MAC season opener in DeKalb. Jennifer Naughton posted the highest score of the meet for NIU, winning the floor...

The new ‘big name' players Garrett Wolfe, Doug Free, Kate McCullagh and Stephanie Raymond. Gone, gone, gone and soon to be gone. With some of NIU's biggest names graduating after this year, it's time to look at who will be stealing headlines in 2007....

DeKALB | Year after year, new and current students arrive in DeKalb for the fall semester in anticipation of seeing the Huskie football team strengthen its growing national appeal. It looked promising at the beginning with Garrett Wolfe grabbing national...

DeKALB | When the title was on the line, the NIU women's soccer team came up short. The seventh-seed Huskies were defeated by fifth-seed Toledo in the MAC championship 2-1 on Sunday in Toledo. Toledo made the first score late in the first half when freshman...

DeKALB | Every season, college coaches say their team's No. 1 goal is to win a conference championship. Just ask NIU football coach Joe Novak. "Bowl games are great exposure for our university, but our No. 1 goal is still to win a MAC championship," said...

DeKALB | Everyone had their favorite Halloween candies. I would often come home with a bag full of enough sugary treats to allow my dentist to make rent for another month. But then there were always the tricks. There was bad generic candy, change, or...