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(06/16/10 3:18am)
If you’ve ever been to a Tom Izzo press conference, you’ve heard the stories. There’s one thing that gives him the biggest smile at every press conference, and there’s one thing that gave him the biggest smile Tuesday night.
(06/13/10 11:37pm)
I have been a fan of MSU basketball since the days of Greg Kelser, Jay Vincent and Earvin “Magic” Johnson. I have been a fan of MSU men’s basketball head coach Tom Izzo since he started long ago as an assistant coach. Over the years, coach Izzo has again and again shown his dedication to the state and to the university in his words and actions.
(04/26/10 3:42am)
Don’t let them fool you.
(04/04/10 4:15am)
Former MSU basketball player Magic Johnson smiles as he is bombarded by fans as he enters Lucas Oil Stadium on Saturday in Indianapolis.
(03/31/10 2:15am)
Steven Mateen Izzo knew exactly what he was getting himself into if his dad and the MSU men’s basketball team beat Tennessee in the Elite Eight on Sunday.
(03/29/10 3:21am)
St. Louis — What did you expect?
This MSU men’s basketball team is running on fumes — more battered, beaten and bruised at this point in the season than maybe any other group in program history.
(03/28/10 8:49pm)
St. Louis — No one was going to take the Midwest Regional Championship trophy away from senior forward Raymar Morgan.
(03/26/10 12:00am)
With time winding down in the MSU men’s basketball team’s first-round NCAA Tournament game against New Mexico State last week, it felt like every Spartan and their next of kin was in dire foul trouble when MSU needed some big rebounds.
(03/19/10 2:20am)
Mateen Cleaves was on the ground in agonizing pain.
(03/19/10 1:19am)
Last March, more than 12,000 visitors flooded the East Lansing area to hoop around in Jenison Field House just as Spartan stars such as Earvin “Magic” Johnson and Gregory Kelser did years before.
(03/15/10 12:51am)
Indianapolis — In almost every MSU loss this season, one opposing player has stepped up to take down the Spartans.
(02/22/10 11:52pm)
MSU might have had its first worldwide trending topic on Twitter.
(02/08/10 1:54am)
For the past two weeks, Draymond Green has shown that he’s starting to find his lethal mid-range jump shot.
(01/28/10 1:10am)
Long road stretches can make or break a team’s season.
(01/25/10 9:12pm)
The pollsters must have seen something in Ohio State’s performance during its 1-1 week to move the Buckeyes up a spot in both the AP and ESPN weekly national polls.
(12/07/09 1:12am)
In the span of three days, the MSU women’s basketball team went from a game it’ll always remember to one it can’t wait to forget.
(11/30/09 9:53pm)
Tom Izzo may be starting to put his finger on it.
(11/24/09 1:24am)
The script couldn’t have been drafted more suitably.
(10/05/09 10:24pm)
ESPN recently released its all-time ranking for college basketball programs. To no one’s surprise, Kentucky, UCLA, Kansas and North Carolina were the top four. And who would argue? The teams are all among the winningest programs of all time.
(09/14/09 12:40am)
Steve Smith was watching the MSU football team take on Central Michigan on Saturday from his personal luxury box at Spartan Stadium when third-year MSU women’s basketball head coach Suzy Merchant walked in and began to chat with him.