IINFORMATIONNFORMATION Media Information ....................... 68 Radio/Media Directory ................ 69 MAC Information ......................... 70 MAC Composite Schedule ..... 70-71 Opponent Directory ..................... 72 mmediaedia iinformationnformation MEDIA RELATIONS MEDIA COVERAGE AND GUIDELINES David Brauer (Illinois, 2000) NIUHuskies.com MEDIA GAME DAY SERVICES Associate Director, Media Relations Northern Illinois baseball information will be Media guides, game notes, scorecards and Baseball Contact regularly updated on the Internet throughout updated statistics are available to media in Email: [email protected] the season on www.niuhuskies.com. Live the press box at each home game. Box scores Offi ce: (815) 753-3706 statistics for all home games will be available will be distributed to media shortly after the Cell: (815) 508-6371 through CSTV’s GameTracker interface. Links completion of each game and a game story Convocation Center 209 to live statistics for road games will be included and box score will be e-mailed to media outlets 1525 West Lincoln Highway as available and additional coverage, including following the post-game interview period. DeKalb, IL 60115-2854 live audio broadcasts of select games, is part Game notes, recaps and box scores are also of the website’s game presentation. Updated available on the baseball page of niuhuskies. recaps, notes, releases, bios and statistics com. The McKinzie Field press box phone along with live chats, blogs, features, Q&A’s number is (815) 753-8094. and other content is also available on the site. MEDIA CREDENTIALS AND SEATING .com PRESS RELEASES The McKinzie Field press box is enclosed at the For the most up to date information, follow Northern All NIU baseball game recaps, game notes, top of the seating area. Seating within the press Illinois baseball all year long on www.niuhuskies. press releases, and additional newsworthy box is extremely limited. There is an overfl ow/ com, the offi cial website of Huskie Athletics. information is distributed via email and posted radio broadcast table located outside in the online at NIUHuskies.com. Media members row directly in front of the press box. Media who would like to be added to the baseball covering NIU baseball games should make their email list should send their request to Baseball request in writing or by phone AT LEAST 24 SID David Brauer. hours in advance. Those media requiring seating need to make a request 48 hours ahead of the INTERVIEW REQUESTS game. All location assignments are based on Head coach Ed Mathey, assistant coaches, availability and granted with priority given to and all Huskie players are available for media circulation and advance request. The McKinzie interviews in person or by phone by contacting Field press box is a working facility with limited the Media Relations Offi ce. Interviews MUST space, therefore non-working personnel is not be arranged through the SID and ALL requests, permitted during the game. including interviews and photo opportunities, need to provide AT LEAST 24 hours advance BROADCAST INFORMATION/PHONE LINES notice. Generally, in person interviews are All radio broadcasts originating from McKinzie conducted at McKinzie Field prior to practice on Field MUST give prior notice to be accomodated. non-game days, depending on individual player The visiting broadcast location is located schedules. The Media Relations Offi ce will not outside at the overfl ow/radio broadcast table provide player phone numbers and media are in the row directly in front of the press box. To strongly discouraged from interviewing players reserve this location, requests should be made directly without prior arrangement through AT LEAST one week in advance of the date Baseball SID David Brauer. of game(s). One phone line is held for visiting radio, but will not be reserved for use unless DIRECTIONS/PARKING specifi cally requested. The line is available on Ralph McKinzie Field is located on Stadium the basis of reciprocation courtesy. Because Drive West, across the northwest corner of of limited phone lines, media access to a Huskie Stadium, directly west of the Yordon line cannot be guaranteed unless specifi cally Center and south of the Stevenson Towers requested well ahead of the game date(s). dorms. There is no reserved media parking. General parking is available along Stadium Drive PHOTOGRAPHY AREAS or in adjacent Huskie Stadium and Convocation Photography bays are located along the outside Center lots. Be aware of the posted campus of the fi rst and third-base line fences with parking regulations and risk of baseballs. other photographer areas located throughout the park (outside the fences surrounding the playing fi eld and dugouts). Photographers are reminded to be courteous of the fans in the areas surrounding the fi eld and to not obstruct fans’ views of the game during play. POST-GAME INTERVIEWS Post-game interviews are conducted on the fi eld following each game. Head coach Ed Mathey and requested Huskie players will be available in front of the fi rst-base/home dugout following a brief post-game cooling off period. For games with NIU radio broadcasts, Mathey will be available to reporters in the press box following his on-air post-game interview. Media requests will be taken in the press box during the last scheduled inning of play. At the conclusion of the game, media will be escorted to the interview area. For doubleheaders, interviews will only take place after the second game. Unless pre-approved by Baseball SID David Brauer, no interviews on gamedays will be granted except during the post-game interview period. Bill Baker conducts his post-game radio interview with Ed Mathey following a 2007 contest. 68 2008 NORTHERN ILLINOIS BASEBALL rradio/mediaadio/media ooutletsutlets NORTHERN ILLINOIS BASEBALL ON THE AIRWAVES TENTATIVE 2008 RADIO BROADCAST SCHEDULE A total of 17 Northern Illinois regular season baseball games and Date(s) Opponent Time (CT) all of the Huskies postseason contests are scheduled for broadcast March 25 vs. Bradley 1 p.m. (G2 of DH) on WLBK-AM (1360) in DeKalb and world wide via All-Access on March 26 at Iowa 2:30 p.m. niuhuskies.com. Last season, 11 NIU games were aired, including April 1 vs. Illinois State 2:30 p.m. all four MAC Tournament games. Bill Baker, who is in his 29th April 2 vs. Milwaukee 2:30 p.m. year as the play-by-play voice of Northern Illinois football and April 4-6 vs. Kent State 3 p.m./1 p.m./1 p.m. basketball, returns to call the action on the diamond. Baker doubles April 11-13 vs. Akron 3 p.m./1 p.m./1 p.m. as the marketing director of the Kane County Cougars, the Class A April 22 vs. UIC (at Geneva) 6:15 p.m. Midwest League affi liate of the Oakland Athletics. He will be joined May 9-11 at Ball State 2 p.m./Noon/Noon on the air by NIU Baseball SID David Brauer, who will provide game May 15-17 vs. Western Michigan 3 p.m./1 p.m./1 p.m. analysis for the second consecutive season. Immediately following TBA Postseason Games each broadcast, Baker is joined in the booth by head coach Ed Bill Baker Dates and times subject to change Mathey for the post-game. MEDIA DIRECTORY AREA NEWSPAPERS RADIO CONTACTS COLLEGE BASEBALL WEBSITES Daily Chronicle (DeKalb) Bill Baker ([email protected]) Rivals.com (815) 756-4841..................................www.daily-chronicle.com Phone (O): (630) 232-8811, x. 6246; Phone (H): (630) 892-6241 Phone: (615) 507-3935 ......www.rosenblattreport.rivals.com Jon Styf ([email protected]), ext. 226 Kendall Rogers ([email protected]) Jim Nokes ([email protected]), (815) 630-8599 WLBK-AM (1360 AM, DeKalb) Phone: (815) 758-8688 ............................www.1360wlbk.com Ping! Baseball ...................................www.pingbaseball.com The Northern Star (NIU) Larry Tempe ([email protected]) Nick Herfordt ([email protected]) (815) 753-9640......................................www.northernstar.info [email protected] National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association ......www.ncbwa.com Ben Gross ([email protected]), (630) 251-4785 AREA TELEVISION Bo Carter ([email protected]) Northern Television Center (NIU) MidWeek News (Sycamore) Phone: (815) 753-8888 College Baseball Foundation ...... www.collegebaseballfoundation.org Phone: (815) 895-3100 ...................... www.midweeknews.com Keith Bertof ([email protected]); Lacy Searcy ([email protected]) John Askins ([email protected]); Karen Hicks ([email protected]) Hank Brockett ([email protected]), ext. 238 WTVO-TV (ABC-17, Rockford) College Baseball Insider......www.collegebaseballinsider.com Aurora Beacon-News Phone: (815) 963-2773 ...................................... www.wtvo.com [email protected] Phone (630) 801-5945 ................. www.beaconnewsonline.com Scott Leber ([email protected]) Phil Stanton ([email protected]) Rick Armstrong ([email protected]), (630) 844-5912 Vince Conway ([email protected]) Sean Ryan ([email protected]) The Northwest Herald (Crystal Lake) WREX-TV (NBC-13, Rockford) Perfect Game Cross Checker .......www.pgcrosschecker.com Phone: (815) 459-4122 ...............................www.nwherald.com Phone: (815) 335-2710 ...................................... www.wrex.com Allan Simpson ([email protected]) [email protected] Nate Daugherty ([email protected]) Tom Clegg ([email protected]) Mike Morig ([email protected]) CSTV ................................................................www.cstv.com Barry Bottino ([email protected])