Dennis Hastert, speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, will be at the 2005 NIU Wrestling Showcase Meet. Hastert is a former teacher, football and wrestling coach at Yorkville High School. In his third term as speaker, Hastert will headline a fundraising...

Don’t say NIU wrestling coach Dave Grant never liked a challenge. With the season’s first tournament only one day away, the NIU wrestling team will kick off one of the toughest schedules in the program’s history. Despite attaining a top-25 national...

Welcome to NIU, the home of the Huskies. We’re excited you will be with us and hope to see you at one of the many athletics events throughout the year. To be sure, exciting things are happening in Huskie athletics. Our football team, the 2004 Silicon...

Whether you’re piling your life into the back of a minivan and making the move to NIU for the first time, or coming back to good old, familiar DeKalb, there has never been a better time to jump on the Huskie sports fan bandwagon than this fall. And...

Results of a recent American Football Coaches Association national survey placed NIU among 25 Division I-A programs to graduate 70 percent or more of their football players between 1999-2004. Duke and Northwestern topped the list with 100-percent graduation...

Top 5 sports stories of the 2004-2005 school year ... as voted on by the Northern Star sports staff. With many big events throughout the school year, many notable stories were left off the list. Lobdell spikes kills record: Senior outside hitter Tera...

With summer a hop, skip and a jump away, students are anxiously awaiting its arrival. Only one task remains in front of them: finals. With this on their mind, it’s a good time to evaluate all the Huskies teams as one group. Although each sport presents...

NIU wrestling found out Monday that it will participate in next year’s National Duals for the first time in school history, but assistant coach Scott Owen will not join them. As the Huskies’ career leader in victories and a two-time All-American,...

Rain washed away the final day of the women’s golf MAC Championships as NIU finished sixth in the conference, its best finish since 1999. The Huskies finished with a two-round 649, 39 strokes behind champion Kent State. Leading the way for NIU was Jackie...

After years of decimation by the New York Yankees in the postseason, faithful 1950s-era Brooklyn Dodgers fans coined the phrase "Wait ‘till next year." But even after another second-place finish to the Yankees-esque Central Michigan Chippewas, the NIU...

Despite sending four wrestlers to the 2005 NCAA Wrestling Championships, NIU will have to wait until next year to get its 11th All-American award. But for senior co-captain Sam Hiatt, there will be no next year. "Yeah, it’s very disappointing," said...

In exactly one week, the top 330 wrestlers in Division I, and four from NIU, will descend on St. Louis for a chance to win an NCAA championship. And in his first trip to the national stage, NIU sophomore Mike Grimes will once again try to prove he belongs....