Rich Strom

Northern Illinois: The women's basketball team (5-3, 3-0), riding a five-game winning streak following Sunday's 100-79 victory at Valparaiso, opens a four-game homestand Thursday night when it plays host to...

As the father of three, including a 2-month-old, Northern Illinois coach Brian Hammel knows all about sleepless nights. But the way things have broken this season for Hammel's Huskies, just...

Northern Illinois: James Spillman was the Huskies' top performer at the Midlands wrestling tournament last week, going 3-2 in the 150-pound division. Spillman beat his first two opponents before losing...

Northern Illinois: Shannon Gregory heads the Huskies' contingent participating in the Midlands wrestling championships. The 118-pounder is ranked 10th in his weight class. The women's basketball team returns to action...

The honors keep pouring in for tailback LeShon Johnson. The latest for the consensus All-American is the AT & T Season Long Distance Award for most yards rushing per game...

Former Northern Illinois great Lisa Foss, the school's all-time leading scorer with 2,500 points, returns to Evans Field House Wednesday as the women's basketball team plays host to Athletes in...

There wasn't any rice, but Midwestern Collegiate Conference Commissioner Jonathan B. LeCrone probably felt like throwing some Thursday, right in the faces of those who believed his conference was dead....

Guard E.C. Hill made quite an impression Wednesday night when she scored a career-high 35 points in the Huskies' 90-79 women's basketball loss to 13th-ranked Southern Cal. "I've heard so...

Pete Waite had his pep talk rehearsed. With his team trailing 12-3 to Illinois State in the first round of the NCAA volleyball tournament Wednesday, the Northern Illinois coach told...

The women's basketball team dropped two games in the Hawaii Paradise Classic. A 68-60 loss to Loyola Marymount and 73-64 setback against Oregon marked the first time since 1986-87 that...