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Northern Illinois University football players Jordan Lynch and Tommylee Lewis were named to the 2013 Paul Hornung Award Watch List. The Paul Hornung Award is given to the most versatile player in major college football by the Louisville Sports Commission and football legend and Louisville native Paul Hornung. The 2013 Watch List was compiled by...

Northern Illinois quarterback Jordan Lynch will work as a counselor at the Manning Passing Academy, the annual summer football camp run by legendary quarterback Archie Manning and his sons Cooper, Peyton and Eli in Thibodaux, La., after receiving a personal invitation from Archie Manning earlier this month. Lynch joins many of the nation’s top returning...

After a 2012 season that saw Northern Illinois quarterback Jordan Lynch set four NCAA and 14 school records while leading the Huskies to the Mid-American Conference Championship and a historic appearance in the Discover Orange Bowl, NIU today launched an official “Jordan Lynch for 6” Heisman campaign for 2013. The initial launch features the JordanLynchfor6.com...

The first preseason magazines previewing the 2013 football season have started to hit the shelves and Northern Illinois is featured in Lindy’s Sports College Football Preview, Athlon Sports College Football Magazine and The Sporting News College Football Yearbook, as well as on Phil Steele’s website in advance of the release of his magazine. After posting...

Fifty Northern Illinois University student-athletes representing 15 Huskie teams celebrated commencement along with their classmates Saturday, May 11, at the NIU Convocation Center. The graduation ceremonies, the last presided over by NIU President John G. Peters, honored students graduating either this spring or after the summer. Saturday’s degree recipients brings the total number of student-athletes...

Jordan Lynch of the Northern Illinois football team and Mary Kurisch from the Huskie volleyball team were named NIU’s male and female Athletes of the Year on Thursday night as NIU Athletics held its fourth annual Victors Awards at the Egyptian Theatre. The all-sports, ESPY-style awards show highlighted the on-field and off-field accomplishments of Huskie...

The biggest lesson learned from Saturday’s inaugural Huskie Bowl, the intrasquad scrimmage that closed out Northern Illinois’ 2013 spring practices, is that the Huskies are immeasurably better as one cohesive unit working together than they are split in half. In a one-hour, 45-minute scrimmage largely dominated by the defenses, the NIU Black team coached by...

Admittedly, calling Saturday’s Northern Illinois football practice a “Spring Game” was a little bit of a misnomer in terms of both the “spring” and the “game”. With temperatures in the low 40s and winds measured near 20 miles per hour at times, spring has not quite arrived in Northern Illinois. And when NIU’s spring football...

Northern Illinois head football coach Rod Carey has accepted an invitation from the Chicago Cubs to throw out the first pitch and sing “Take Me Out to the Ballgame” during the seventh-inning stretch Wednesday, April 17, of the Cubs’ game with the Texas Rangers. First pitch is slated for 7:05 p.m. and the game will...

The Northern Illinois football team scrimmaged for nearly 90 minutes in full pads Saturday at Huskie Stadium in the most intense day of full contact work so far this spring. The Huskie offense, especially the first team unit working behind quarterback Jordan Lynch (Chicago, Ill./Mt. Carmel HS), appeared to be in mid-season form early in...

As the Northern Illinois University football team begins spring practice today, there are great expectations for the 2013 season. With back-to-back Mid-American Conference championships, five straight bowl trips, including the school’s first BCS bowl bid, the bar has been set pretty high. “I’d rather have the expectations high because then you’re going to be going...

Northern Illinois kicked off its 2013 season ticket campaign by announcing lower football season ticket prices, including a $50 season ticket with $50 in parking and concessions coupons, and a marketing campaign using the theme “Be Proud, Be NIU.” In addition to the lower ticket prices, Huskie season ticket holders will receive two free tickets...