The NIU baseball team remained undefeated in the postseason, beating Coastal Carolina 12-10 on Friday night in the first game of the Tallahassee Regional, its first NCAA tournament win in program history.

From struggling pitcher to ace. Max Vaisvila's turnaround mirrors NIU baseball's stunning rise: 35 wins this year, MAC Tournament champs, and headed to the College World Series for the first time in 54 years.

A pioneer of the modern passing game, Northern Illinois University Athletics Hall of Famer George Bork died at 84. A two-sport standout at NIU, he was the first Huskie inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame.

NIU football will open the season at Iowa with a game on Big Ten Network, it's homecoming game will be a 6:30 p.m. kickoff on CBS Sports Network, and the Huskies have games on TNT and the CW as well.

"The amount of people who told you can’t win at Northern Illinois, it’s too tough of a place, I just never believed that." Ryan Copeland proved himself right, as the NIU baseball team found out it's heading to Tallahassee for its first NCAA CWS regional since 1972.

The NIU baseball team won the MAC tournament for the first time in its last year in the conference.

Quinn Urwiler will be reunited with former coach Thomas Hammock in Seattle, as the former NIU linebacker will attend Seattle's minicamp. Urwiler was one of three 2025 NIU players to get a shot at the pros, along with Donte Harrison (Baltimore) and Cyrus McGarrell (CFL's Montreal)

One interception vs. two. On paper, Brady Davidson won the spring game turnover battle. On the field? Jalen Macon looked more ready to be NIU's starting quarterback.

Jason Fowler showed up to the spring game draft in a suit and tie. He was picked first among the tight ends. Then he proved he belonged. How the NIU redshirt sophomore is emerging as the team's top tight end.