It's been 39 years since Title IX gave women the right to play sports at any publicly-funded school. Through all the trials and tribulations, one question still needs to be asked. How badly do female student-athletes want to be treated as equals? Women's...
Well, the setback everybody in baseball was waiting for finally came on Sunday.The White Sox shut down pitcher Jake Peavy with what is believed to be rotator cuff tendinitis.When did the damage occur? Might be a culmination of things, or it might be the...
Spring break proved to be just what the previously winless NIU baseball team needed, as the Huskies went 5-1 over the week. NIU (5-11) reeled off five consecutive wins before falling to Saint Louis on Sunday afternoon. The Huskies ended a weather-induced...
Dreams of wrestling immortality came to an abrupt end for Bryan Deutsch and Brad Dieckhaus over spring break at the NCAA Wrestling Championships. NIU’s Deutsch and Dieckhaus both fell in the fourth round of wrestlebacks at the Wells Fargo Center in...
2010-11 came to a merciful end for the NIU men's basketball team on Tuesday evening in the first round of the MAC Tournament. NIU lost 74-54 at Bowling Green, sending the Falcons to Cleveland for the MAC Tournament Quarterfinals. The Huskies (9-21 overall,...
Marke Freeman was named to the All-MAC Second Team on Tuesday, two days after the NIU women's basketball team ended its season with a loss to Ohio in the MAC Tournament. Freeman joins ex-WNBA players E.C. Hill and Stephanie Raymond as the only Huskies...
It was confirmed by ESPN on Tuesday that former New York Giants running back Tiki Barber has filed the papers to come out of retirement. Barber, 36 in April, hasn't played since the 2006 season. In other words, one season before the Giants won one for...
Andrew Singer: Brandon Davies was released by the Brigham Young men's basketball team late last week and I am still fuming. Yes, he had sex with his girlfriend and that is against the BYU honor code. Should he have done it (pun intended)? No, but the...
What was the first thing NIU baseball head coach Ed Mathey asked me on Friday evening after the Huskies lost 10-9 to Arizona State? "Did you see how fast their closer was throwing?" I didn't have a radar gun, but it didn't take one to see that ASU's Trevor...
The NFL resumed discussions for a new collective bargaining agreement on Monday afternoon after taking Saturday and Sunday off. The owners and players agreed Friday to a week-long extension on the current CBA. Apparently the two sides were so happy with...
SURPRISE, Ariz. | Four more losses were tacked on to the NIU baseball team's early-season slide over the weekend at the Coca-Cola Classic in Surprise, Arizona. The Huskies (0-10) came within five outs of taking down No. 10 Arizona State, but the Sun Devils...
Chad Spann didn't get an invitation to the NFL combine in Indianapolis, but the now-former Huskie running back is still determined as ever to reach the next level. The departing senior is currently training for NIU's March 16 Pro Day. Scouts from an assortment...
