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Commentary: Sterger hurts her reputation

By Mike Romor | April 11, 2011

When Brett Favre was drafted by the Atlanta Falcons in 1991, he probably never imagined the career ahead of him and the adversity that would ensue. While making his first and least surprising comeback to the NFL as the quarterback for the New York Jets...

Commentary: List the weight of women athletes

By Andrew Singer | March 21, 2011

It's been 39 years since Title IX gave women the right to play sports at any publicly-funded school. Through all the trials and tribulations, one question still needs to be asked. How badly do female student-athletes want to be treated as equals? Women's...

NIU Volleyball deserves attention

By Chris Dertz | September 20, 2010

The number of columns that I've written during my time at this newspaper asking the student body to pay attention to sports other than football has to be astronomical. I don't want to preach at you anymore than you don't want to hear me talk at you about...

NIU football not the only show in town

By Jerry Burnes | August 23, 2010

Is ESPN going through a fad, or has it just gone certifiably insane? I really can't think of another explanation to rationally break down its coverage of the past eight months. First there was Tiger Woods, then Tim Tebow, Stephen Strasburg, LeBron James...