Northern Illinois University
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Mixed emotions for PhillipsFeb 28, 2008 10:00 pm - Throughout a 25-minute conference call with reporters, Jim Phillips explained how he's balancing the thrill of becoming Northwestern's athletic director with the sorrow ...
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Phillips' departure rough for NIUFeb 27, 2008 10:00 pm - As if Northern Illinois University president John Peters didn't have enough on his plate, now he must find an athletic director. On the same day Peters announced the dec...
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Northwestern picks NIU's Phillips as ADFeb 27, 2008 10:00 pm - As expected, Northwestern University has named James Phillips as its new athletics director. The appointment becomes effective on April 14, Northwestern president Henry ...
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Somberly, sports return to NIUFeb 26, 2008 10:00 pm - DEKALB -- For more than a minute Tuesday night, absolute silence reigned in the Convocation Center. As every player, coach, trainer and manager for Northern Illinois and...
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Difficult, indeed, but the story was that the game was playedFeb 26, 2008 10:00 pm - DEKALB -- Fight and defend. Those words echoed through a nearly silent Convocation Center during Sunday night's memorial for the victims of February 14, and while the ar...
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Student-athletes play role in healing processFeb 25, 2008 10:00 pm - DEKALB -- If life truly were normal at Northern Illinois, Jake Anderson's Geography 101 class at 9:30 a.m. today would be held at Cole Hall 101. Yes, the same lecture ro...
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Northwestern likes Phillips, but who doesn't?Feb 20, 2008 10:00 pm - If timing isn't everything, it's at least a large part of the thing. And of all the times for word to leak that Northwestern is interested in NIU athletic director Jim P...
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NIU plans 5 minutes of silence ThursdayFeb 19, 2008 10:00 pm - At 3:06 p.m. Thursday, Northern Illinois University will go completely silent. Precisely one week after a gunman shot and killed five students, the university and surrou...
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NIU's Patton close to two tragedies
Feb 18, 2008 10:00 pm - For Northern Illinois basketball coach Ricardo Patton, last week's tragedy jarred memories of the Columbine High School massacre in 1999. He was the head coach at Colora...
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Huskies on holdFeb 16, 2008 10:00 pm - The Northern Illinois athletic department is joining the rest of the university community in observing a week of healing in the wake of Thursday's campus shootings in De...