NEIU Independent

NEIU intramural sports are heating up

Hashim Tillawi & Carlo Varquez, Writers • October 26, 2016

It is intramural season here at NEIU. The flag football season has already started and basketball started on Oct. 18. Flag football takes places on the field behind the P.E. complex Tuesdays and Thursdays...

Healthy Lifestyle Challenge

Idoia Solano, Writer • October 11, 2016

Clara Mora-Granados is a promoter of the Healthy Lifestyle Challenge and explained it as “a project focused on promoting a healthier lifestyle among NEIU students and also promoting Campus Recreation...

Campus Rec Kicks off the Holiday season with 8 Week Bootcamp

Sylvia Burian, Staff writer • October 11, 2016

Campus Rec is offering an eight week boot camp, just in time to get ahead on those post Halloween/Thanksgiving workouts. The camp takes place at the P.E. Complex and has already begun. Maria Choochkeh...

Revenge of the Benchwarmer

Spencer Jones, Sports Editor • September 29, 2016

I've been around sports my entire life, though I wasn't necessarily good at them. In grammar school I only made the boys softball team because they couldn't reject me. It was kind of like the No Child...

Taking the scenic route

Brian Quevedo, Writer • September 28, 2016

In 2001, an ambitious 27-year-old man named Tim Wambach, an NEIU alumnus, met a 12-year-old boy who would end up changing his entire perspective on life. The boy’s name was Mike Berkson, who suffers...

History repeats itself with athlete protests, social injustice

Danny Montesdeoca, Production Staff • September 28, 2016

The relationship that sports and social issues have is natural. The two will always be intertwined because athletes have a moral obligation to use their platform to speak out on political and social issues. Oscar...

Fantasy Football Predictions: Week 4

Alex Pacete, Writer • September 28, 2016

NFL Week four Marquee Matchups Thursday Night’s Game: Cincinnati Bengals vs. Miami Dolphins In week four, marquee matchups for the Thursday night game anticipates high scoring action...

AFC Preseason Predictions: North & South

Christian Gralak, Online Editor • September 6, 2016

Pittsburgh Steelers: 12–4 The Steelers had some trouble with injuries to their key players last season (quarterback Ben Roethlisberger and running back Le’Veon Bell) as well as a defense that showed...

AFC Preseason Predictions: East & West

Alex Pacete, Writer • September 6, 2016

AFC EAST Patriots 13-3: Patriots start this season with Quarterback Tom Brady suspended for 4 games. This won’t stop Bill Belichick from having a successful season. Taking over for Brady is Jimmy...

Rec’n Expectations

Michelle Bright, Writer • September 6, 2016

Campus Recreation has spent the summer preparing some big changes in the P.E. Complex. The biggest change is the hours of operation. The P.E.Complex is now open seven days per week. Director of Campus...

Boxing Club set to lace gloves for fall semester

Spencer Jones, Sports Editor • September 6, 2016

Giovanni Monterroso, a fifth year biology major, has been leading the boxing club for the past few years. Though he doesn’t have much boxing experience outside of the club, his love for the sport started...

Which Way is Up?

Spencer Jones, Sports Editor • June 21, 2016

There’s no way but up from here. The Chicago Bulls were on the outside looking in at the end of the regular season and right before the playoffs for the first time since the Derrick Rose era began. Though...