Bill Jauss

A record Northern Illinois home crowd of 1,672 fans watched Notre Dame's women's volleyball team end the Huskies' 11-match winning streak with a 3-1 victory last week. Nineteen service errrors...

To some people at Dyche Stadium on Saturday, it appeared that Illinois linebacker Simeon Rice simply ignored play fakes by Tim Hughes and Steve Schnur and ripped in immediately to...

Northwestern coach Gary Barnett had a lengthened contract going into Saturday night's game here against Minnesota. But Barnett also had a dangerously short list of healthy linebackers. Last week Northwestern...

Illinois' women's volleyball team, winner of the Big 10 championship in four of the last seven years, has recovered from an awkward 0-4 start to go 13-1 in its last...

Northwestern coach Gary Barnett still can't figure out why his Wildcats keep getting clobbered in the third quarter. Rallying from a 14-10 halftime deficit, Wisconsin outscored the Wildcats 14-0 in...

68 straight: Chuck Roundy, 88, of Dixon, will attend his 68th consecutive Northern Illinois homecoming game this Saturday when the Huskies host New Mexico State. Roundy lettered in football for...

At a Friday luncheon, Northwestern coach Gary Barnett promised fans that backup linebacker Casey Dailey "would be involved in a big surprise play" against Ohio State. Before Saturday's 17-15 loss,...

For the second time in three games, the Northern Illinois Huskies waited out a lightning delay Saturday night. The difference was that this time, tailbacks Charles Talley and Brian Grimes,...

Freshman quarterback D'Wayne Bates did not make the trip here. He's likely to be redshirted. Yet, he played a role in the Cats' 14-10 victory over Air Force. Bates spent...

Northwestern doesn't have a definite No. 1 and No. 2 quarterback, coach Gary Barnett said Saturday after Steve Schnur, in relief of Tim Hughes, played most of the 41-41 tie...