Beating one of the best teams in the MAC West is an accomplishment any way you look at it, but NIU's 59-45 victory over Central Michigan had some asterisks to examine. The Chippewas (16-8 overall, 8-4 MAC) showed up at the Convocation Center on Wednesday...

NCAA officials don't usually have to worry about men's tennis coaches having excessive contact with potential recruits. NIU head coach Patrick Fisher first meets the bulk of his recruits after a scholarship has already been offered. The second-year coach...

Remember Garrett Wittels? He's the Florida International University shortstop that ended last season on a 56-game hitting streak, two games shy of Robin Ventura's Division-I record 58-game streak. Last December, the junior was charged with the rape of...

DeKALB | Opening day for the NIU baseball team is two days away, but the Huskies’ pitching rotation is still far from set. Before jotting down the 2011 rotation in pen, ninth-year head coach Ed Mathey wants to see how his pitchers throw in the first...

On Tuesday night, NIU head coach Ricardo Patton saw exactly how far the NIU men's basketball team could get without a productive Xavier Silas in the lineup.NIU (7-17 overall, 3-9 MAC) lost 77-65 in the second game of a four-game home stand. Silas struggled...

C.C. Sabathia of the New York Yankees said earlier this week that after the 2011 season, he would consider opting out of the $161 million deal he signed before the 2009 season. Sabathia has averaged 20 wins in his first two seasons as a Yankee. Apparently...

Fifty-one school records stood when Connie Teaberry took over the NIU Track & Field team. Seven years later, all but eight have fallen.Teaberry participated in the 1992 Olympic trials, but success in DeKalb didn't come automatically to the former...

Andrew Singer: With the looming expiration of the NFL's collective bargaining agreement, people are starting to envision the possibility of a world without football on Sundays. Fantasy football nerds everywhere will die a little bit if there are no sleeper...

Track & Field places four in top 10Four top-10 finishes highlighted the NIU Track & Field team's performance at the Iowa State Classic over the weekend. Senior sprinter Rasheta Butler finished third in the 400-meter dash and Courtney Oldenburg...

On Saturday, the Kent State men's basketball team will enter the Convocation Center with 21 straight wins against MAC West opponents.The Golden Flashes' (16-7, 7-2 MAC) streak is bad news for an NIU squad coming off two ugly losses on the road to MAC...