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April 27, 2018: during the 2018 Mid-American Men's Tennis Championship between the Buffalo Bulls and Northern Illinois Huskies at the Miller Tennis Center in Amherst, N.Y. (Nicholas T. LoVerde)

Men’s tennis falls short in MAC Championship

By Jarrett Huff | April 22, 2019

April 27, 2018: during the 2018 Mid-American Men's Tennis Championship between the Buffalo Bulls and Northern Illinois Huskies at the Miller Tennis Center in Amherst, N.Y. (Nicholas T. LoVerde)

“Didn’t you get the memo?”

By Chris Dertz | March 7, 2011

Derrick Rose doesn't want anyone to think the Bulls can make a playoff run. He wants the league to forget about them. He wants them to forget that Chicago is second in the East. Sorry, Derrick; you just swept the most publicized team in the history of...

RANT: TCU bucks Broncos

By Chris Dertz | November 29, 2010

Boise State has just pooped its proverbial brick. The Broncos are headed to a conference where no good teams will remain, when Boise State moves to the Mountain West Conference. Only problem is that TCU, Utah and BYU, or the best teams in the conference,...

Harnish and another NIU teammate celebrates a touchdown in a game earlier this season.

Is this the best football team ever at NIU?

By Chris Dertz | November 21, 2010

Is this the best football team ever at NIU? I pose the question as the Huskies, after a 59-21 dismantling of Ball State, have outscored their last two opponents 124-51. They have won eight straight games, the team’s longest winning streak since 1965,...