Andrew Singer: The Chicago Tribune reported on Friday that the Schaumburg Flyers baseball team have been evicted from their home park for unpaid rent totaling near $900,000. This eviction has me thinking of the current state of NIU sports. Now, it's not...
Standing at 6-feet-7-inches, Zach Oates is imposing. As of late, though, it’s the right-hander’s pitching that has people feeling small. The senior on the NIU baseball team is fast becoming the ace of the Huskies’ 2011 pitching staff. In 12 innings...
Seven home games highlight the 2011 NIU football schedule released by NIU and the MAC on Monday afternoon.Army will travel to DeKalb for the first time to open the season. The Huskies lost the only meeting between the two teams in 1992.NIU travels to...
Ricardo Patton breathed a sigh of relief on Saturday evening.While the head coach of the NIU men's basketball team didn't receive any job reassurance, his team did snap an eight-game losing streak, beating Toledo 75-70 on the road in overtime.Down by...
For the second time in as many weeks, the NIU baseball team traveled west, and for the second time they came home with no wins. The Huskies (0-6) continued on their early-season slide in Lubbock, Texas this weekend, losing two games to BYU and Texas Tech...
Detroit Tigers first baseman Miguel Cabrera returned to Tigers camp on Thursday for the first time since being arrested last week on suspicion of drunk driving. People are still up in arms over the five-time all star's decision to sip a bottle of scotch...
Xavier Silas watched from the bench as the NIU men’s basketball team lost its eighth consecutive game on Wednesday night to Central Michigan, 64-58. Silas left with an ankle injury about eight minutes into the second half. Without their leading scorer,...
The UCONN women's basketball team is once again ranked No. 1 in the nation, and I feel like I speak for the entire country when I say "thank goodness." Because after all, nothing is more important than women's basketball and having the best team ranked...
Men's golf competing in Arizona tournament to kick off season Head coach Tom Porten and the NIU men's golf team traveled west yesterday to kick off the spring 2011 season at the Washington State Snowman Invitational in Chandler, Ariz. Fourteen teams were...
Sloppy play in the field and a lack of clutch hitting accounted for the NIU baseball team dropping two games to Southern Utah in college baseball’s opening weekend. The Huskies (0-2 overall) committed eight errors in Friday’s doubleheader at Thunderbird...
Even in a world of 24/7 media scrutiny, DeMarcus Grady managed to keep a secret from NIU football fans. Basketball is the only game Grady truly wanted to play in college. The redshirt junior found himself playing football, however, after a series of...
Today signals the beginning of a new era in college baseball, as new NCAA-mandated bats will be used in games for the first time. The bats are designed to resemble wood in their performance and will most likely lead to a significant decrease in the number...
