DeKALB | Dave Doeren wanted his first spring game as NIU's head football coach to be a celebration. With hundreds of fans in attendance on a beautiful day, that's exactly what the intra-squad scrimmage was. Fans and players alike welcomed Devon Butler...

Devon Butler, a linebacker on the NIU football team, spoke to the public on Friday for the first time since being shot off campus on April 5. Butler had been recovering at Kishwaukee Hospital, then at OSF Saint Anthony Medical Center in Rockford before...

Fans of the NIU football team will have their first opportunity to see the Dave Doeren-led Huskies at 2 p.m. Saturday.The annual spring game is the culmination of five weeks of practices in March and April. In his first year as head coach, Doeren says...

NIU linebacker Devon Butler will issue a statement at 3:30 p.m. today in the Yordon Center. It will be his first public appearance since he was wounded in a shooting on April 5. According to a Thursday night release from NIU Athletic Media Relations,...

A 7:15 a.m. start time wasn’t early enough on Tuesday morning for the NIU football team to beat a DeKalb forecast that predicted temperatures in the 30’s, in addition to intense wind and rain. The Huskies started an hour early and were able to finish...

While referred to as the secondary, NIU's defensive backs are definitely the primary question going into the football team's spring game this Saturday. The Huskies ranked fifth in the MAC against the pass in 2010, giving up 208 yards a game. Secondary...

There's no favoritism from NIU football defensive line coach Ryan Nielsen. Regardless of who makes a play on the defense, regardless of the position of the player, he can't seem to hold back his emotion and rejoice for their success. "We'll get picks...

• Chandler Harnish and the NIU offense struggled with new installations and, as a result, weren't very productive against a stingy Huskie defense on Thursday morning. Junior-college transfer running back Jamal Womble was unable to get anything going,...

More than four months after being hired, the Northern Star caught up with first-year head coach Dave Doeren of the NIU football team Wednesday morning. The former Wisconsin defensive coordinator filled the vacancy left by Jerry Kill, who accepted an offer...

Wide receiver Nathan Palmer got hit just about as hard as someone can be hit in a spring practice on Tuesday morning. Sophomore Dominique Ware lined up Palmer on an out route and sent the wideout to the ground. Palmer was back up laughing about the hit...

Without Devon Butler in as the starting middle linebacker, NIU head coach Dave Doeren gave two underclassmen the chance to step in. "[Mike Hellams was] a little bit ‘deer in the headlights,' but you could tell he was excited to be out there," Doeren...