I've been watching the Wisconsin labor situation unfold with great interest these past couple of weeks. It's great political theater! Between a blogger impersonating one of Wis. Gov. Scott Walker's campaign backers to Wisconsin Democrats hiding out in...

Seven home games highlight the 2011 NIU football schedule released by NIU and the MAC on Monday afternoon.Army will travel to DeKalb for the first time to open the season. The Huskies lost the only meeting between the two teams in 1992.NIU travels to...

I am usually not one to cry conspiracy. Occasionally, however, there are so many coincidences that even I can be driven to a Glenn Beck-inspired mental meltdown, wherein I scribble random names and lines on a chalkboard until things start making sense....

As I'm sure most of you have heard by now, there is a bit of an uproar in Wisconsin regarding Gov. Scott Walker's proposed budget package, which includes a provision that would strip many state workers of their collective bargaining rights. Putting aside...

The cold September night temperatures dropped down into the 40s, so low that most people would be begging for their warm beds, but not the cadets of NIU's ROTC. Over 60 NIU ROTC cadets took off in a Chinook helicopter Friday afternoon from the DeKalb...

It isn't difficult to recognize that NIU defensive lineman Zach Anderson and his father, John McMahon, didn't come from the same bloodline.Anderson, who was adopted by McMahon and his wife Cheryl at the age of seven, stands at a towering 6'2" 288 pounds...