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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...

For one more year, Mother Nature wins. NIU head football coach Rod Carey announced Tuesday that Northern Illinois will push the beginning of its 2013 spring football practices back one week due to unseasonably cold weather. The Huskies, whose new indoor practice facility, the Kenneth and Ellen Chessick Practice Center, is currently under construction just...

Sorry, ladies, this one’s for the guys. In four years, Northern Illinois Athletics’ annual Football 101 Ladies Clinic has become a huge hit with the Huskie fan base. In fact, the “exclusive” nature of the ladies clinic inspired a bit of jealousy from their husbands, sons and men throughout the community who asked: Where was...

Kelton Copeland, a Miami, Fla. native whose football playing and coaching career has led him to Michigan, Kansas, South Dakota and now Illinois, has joined the Northern Illinois coaching staff as running backs coach, NIU head coach Rod Carey announced today. Copeland, a three-year starter at quarterback at Emporia State (Kan.) University who left the...

Coming off the most successful season in school history, three straight years with 11 wins or more and back-to-back Mid-American Conference Championships, Northern Illinois will face one of its most challenging schedules in recent seasons according to the 2013 slate released Friday by Northern Illinois and the Mid-American Conference. With five home games at Huskie...

Northern Illinois head coach Rod Carey continues to put the pieces of his 2013 Huskie coaching staff in place, announcing Wednesday that three returning members of the NIU staff will take on additional duties. Carey also gave two of the four new coaches hired since he took over prior to the Huskies’ appearance in the...

Building on the momentum of Northern Illinois University’s second-straight Mid-American Conference championship and its historic berth in the 2013 Discover Orange Bowl, NIU first-year head football coach Rod Carey added 24 future Huskies to his first recruiting class Wednesday. “The success we had last season made a big impact on the quality of recruits we signed,”...

The Northern Illinois University football team carried its success on the field into the classroom placing a school-record six Huskies on the league’s Academic All-MAC Football Team, as selected by the conference’s faculty athletic representatives. Nose guard Nabal Jefferson (Chicago, Ill./Marist), a three-time Academic All-MAC selection, headlines the list of NIU’s first-team honorees which includes...

Northern Illinois head football coach Rod Carey will introduce his first signing class and his new assistant coaches at NIU’s 2013 Signing Day Reception. All Huskie fans are invited to attend the event, scheduled Wednesday, Feb. 6, in the NIU Convocation Center prior to the men’s basketball game between NIU and Bowling Green. It begins...

Tim Polasek, who helped coach North Dakota State to back-to-back national championships and three playoff appearances in the last three seasons, was named Northern Illinois’ tight ends and fullbacks coach by NIU head coach Rod Carey Thursday. Polasek has spent the past seven seasons at NDSU, where he was also the special teams coordinator for...