Huskie Wire

26/01/2025

The Sycamore dance team took second at its home sectional and earned a trip to state next week, the NIU men's basketball team won its first MAC game and other basketball and wrestling scores in the roundup.

17/01/2025

An Elmhurst native with experience as both a coordinator and position coach, Rob Harley has joined the Northern Illinois University football coaching staff as defensive coordinator.

15/01/2025

Marcus Johnson powered a Genoa-Kingston comeback at Harvest Christian as part of a boys-girls doubleheader sweep, Aiden Cooper had 21 points and 21 rebounds, the NIU men lose at home plus more in the roundup.

15/01/2025

Quinn Sanders has been named offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach at Northern Illinois University, head coach Thomas Hammock announced Tuesday.

11/01/2025

Former Sycamore teammates Evyn Carrier (Western Michigan) and Lexi Carlsen (NIU) combined for 19 points and 14 rebounds in the Broncos' 61-57 win over the Huskies on Saturday.

09/01/2025

DeKalb has no mountains and is not in the west. MACtion is great. But neither are reasons to jeopardize the future. College football is about to change very quickly, and NIU administrators have taken a big swing to give the school's atlhetics the best chance to survive.

08/01/2025

A roundup of sports around the DeKalb area for Tuesday, Jan. 7, 2025.

08/01/2025

Thomas Hammock said it was better than beating Notre Dame. School and league officials talked in similar terms. The marriage between NIU football and the Mountain West conference was announced Tuesday. Here's what Hammock and others had to say.

07/01/2025

Northern Illinois University President Lisa Freeman, Vice President and Director of Athletics and Recreation Sean Frazier and Head Football Coach Thomas Hammock spoke during a press conference Tuesday announcing NIU football will be entering the Mountain West Conference starting with the 2026 season.

Northern Illinois University President Lisa Freeman, Vice President and Director of Athletics and Recreation Sean Frazier and Head Football Coach Thomas Hammock spoke during a press conference Tuesday announcing NIU football will be entering the Mountain West Conference starting with the 2026 season...

07/01/2025

The Northern Illinois University Board of Trustees on Tuesday approved a $2 million entry fee for the football team to join the Mountain West Conference, making the long-rumored move out of the MAC complete.

06/01/2025

NIU has accepted a formal offer to join the Mountain West as a football-only member, according to a Board of Trustees agenda item for a meeting scheduled for Tuesday.

01/01/2025

It's hard to argue a bowl win and a victory at Notre Dame don't comprise a successful season. But there's definitely a load of What If's hanging over the season.

30/12/2024

It wasn't only high school champions. From NIU’s historic win at Notre Dame to local golf pro David Paeglow competing at the US Senior Open, there were plenty of national stories out of DeKalb County. Here's the 10 biggest of 2024.

29/12/2024

A roundup of Saturday action across the Daily Chronicle area.

24/12/2024

With Northern Illinois dodging bullets all game long Saturday against Fresno State in the Famous Idaho Potato Bowl, the Huskies found some magic in their 28-20 double-overtime win—and used a little luck of the Irish, too.

23/12/2024

NIU secured back-to-back bowl wins for the first time since 2010-11 with a thrilling 28-20 victory Saturday in double overtime against Fresno State in the Famous Idaho Potato Bowl.

20/12/2024

NIU's defense is relatively unscathed by the portal as they prepare to take on Fresno State in the Famous Idaho Potato Bowl. We look at that and a couple other storylines from the game coming up Monday.

19/12/2024

NIU coach Thomas Hammock said Josh Holst is an alpha. The walk-on redshirt freshman from Marengo gets to take over as the starting quarterback for the Huskies' bowl game on Monday.