Loving what you do ranks right up there in importance with finding the right person to love. Spending five semesters watching and writing about college athletics made the college experience more bearable than I could have even imagined and was probably...
NIU wrestling opened its dual season at the Hoosier Duals and saw three tight matches until the very end. The Huskies went 1-2 in their first duals of the season with a 16-14 win over Old Dominion and 21-15 and 22-18 losses to North Carolina Greensboro...
Leaving a mark can be on the minds of many athletes, but for one NIU grappler, it comes down to one final season. Senior wrestler Bryan Deutsch has reached the top of the conference before and is now looking to get to the top of the country. Since cutting...
Changing and cutting weight is a part of wrestling, and finding the right weight class can be the key to a wrestler's success. Determining whether an alteration in class is necessary for a wrestler can be narrowed down to two different things for NIU...
The NIU wrestling team began its regular season with some of its athletes making deep runs in the Michigan State Open. Twenty-four Huskies participated in the tournament on Saturday and 10 of them placed in the top six in their respective brackets. "I...
Wrestling has been in NIU head coach Dave Grant's life for 30 years and come March, he will be done coaching. Grant, who announced his retirement in April, has been at the head of the wrestling team since 1996 and couldn't be more enthused about his final...
Wrestling season began Friday night with the annual NIU Wrestle-Offs with Huskie grapplers fighting for 10 starting positions for the upcoming year. The 2010 NIU Wrestle-Offs proved to be exciting in an 18-16 red over black victory where four seniors...
All things come to an end, but before they do, head coach Dave Grant has one more season with the NIU wrestling team. The Huskies begin their 2010-2011 season tonight at 7 p.m. with their annual Wrestle-Offs, which will determine the starters for the...
Throughout the first 50 years of NIU sports, Reino Nori was the best. Standing only 5 feet 6 inches tall and weighing in at 155 pounds, Nori won 17 varsity letters in five sports (football, basketball, wrestling, baseball and track). The "Flyin' Finn"...
Scott Owen became the second two-time Division I All-American after placing fifth at the NCAA Championships in both 2002 and 2003. Owen also claimed MAC Championships three times from 2001-03 at 157 pounds. With his achievements on the mat, Owen has been...
Jeremy Goeden made NIU wrestling history as the first Division I repeat All-American. Goeden placed eighth at the NCAA Championships in 1997 and seventh in 1998 as a senior. He also netted First-Team National Wrestling Coaches Association and Second-Team...
I don't fancy myself a professional wrestling aficionado, but a few recent news tidbits have caught my attention and for all the wrong reasons. On Friday, March 13, former World Wrestling Entertainment talent Andrew Martin - known to fans as Test - was...
