Now comes the hard part. Now that Minnesota Assistant Athletic Director Gerald O'Dell has finished making his case for NIU's permanent AD spot, the search committee has the burden to decide the university's athletic future in the next few days. Committee...

After a day off from public forums, the athletic director scenario resumes today when Minnesota Assistant AD Gerald O'Dell has his chance to address NIU, but the interviews so far have not gone unnoticed. O'Dell's public forum is from 2-3:30 p.m. in Holmes...

Northwestern interim Athletic Director Ken Kraft said Monday he has applied for NIU's permanent directorship. Kraft's statement comes on the heels of the search committee's first meeting Friday, where committee members began to set up shop and screen...

Imagine an arm wrestling competition where competitors challenge each other through a machine. NIU students will have the opportunity tonight to see or participate in a World Class Arm Wrestling Federation tournament at the Stadium Club, 1311 Lincoln...

After facing Hurricanes on the athletic field, NIU men's athletics also had to battle unchartered waters on its new athletic ship. NIU had its baptism in independent waters this year after leaving its 13-year affiliation with the Mid-American Conference,...

Wrestling season might have ended a month ago, but NIU Coach Ed Vatch is already preparing for next year. A number of NIU grapplers will participate in the Chicagoland Open Freestyle Wrestling Tournament Saturday when the Huskies host the tournament at...

Wise men say there are two things in life that are certain—death and taxes. We usually can't do anything to avoid impending death, but today is the day to take care of taxes. Have you filed all the required forms? If you haven't, don't fret. It could...

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...

Going into this weekend's national wrestling tournament, NIU Coach Ed Vatch said his two wrestlers would have to catch fire in the early rounds, but instead they fizzled. Tino Gonzalez and Nate Allison were both eliminated after two matches Thursday in...

Ed Vatch and his NIU wrestlers will compete in the West Regionals this weekend in an attempt to make up for a subpar regular season record. Vatch has said all season the most important thing to him is not dual meets, but the postseason tournament. Now...

If the NIU wrestlers were using last night's dual meet to gain momentum for regionals, they now can consider themselves a runaway train. The 4-9 Huskies dominated the middle matches of the meet, including five straight wins, on their way to a 27-15 win...

Former NIU wrestling coach Don Flavin has been chosen as one of four honorary grand marshals for the Illinois High School Association's 50th Annual Wrestling Championships Feb. 19-21 at the University of Illinois' Assembly Hall. Flavin, who retired last...