Forgive Chad Spann if he didn't jump for joy when told the Northern Star had named him the best Huskie of 2010-11. The former NIU running back has been a little preoccupied after going undrafted in last month's NFL Draft. Spann had interest from multiple...
Leave it to Chandler Harnish to be humble about his success on the football field.The NIU football quarterback guided his team toward a school-record 11-win season, along with appearances in the MAC Championship and the uDrove Humanitarian Bowl on his...
Give Jamal Womble the eye test, and you'll see a classic bruiser, but your notion will quickly be put to rest.Sure, the NIU running back is built like a soda machine, but his feet tell a different story."As soon as we got out there for the first day...
DeKALB | A familiar face walked into the Yordon Center on Friday afternoon. Devon Butler spoke publicly for the first time, less than three weeks after the April 5 shooting that left him fighting for his life. The first words that came out of Butler's...
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...
Debra Boughton, director of NIU's athletic business affairs, received a puzzled look from NIU Athletic Director Jeff Compher when she handed him the athletic expense report from the football team's trip to the uDrove Humanitarian Bowl. Following losses...
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...
Scott Wedige is typically in the middle of everything. Being the starting center for the NIU football team, the Elkhorn, Wis. native finds himself as the lynch pin of the offensive line, barking out orders to his teammates in the trenches. After Tuesday’s...
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...
