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MSU receives warm welcome home
The influence of MSU men’s basketball head coach Tom Izzo stretches far past basketball, as he showcased Saturday.
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Out of reach
As junior quarterback Brian Hoyer’s fourth-and-two pass from the Wisconsin 38-yard line bounced off junior running back Javon Ringer’s hand, the Spartans hopelessly watched the ball float to the turf — their chance at victory sinking right along with it.
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Fans: Spartan team is not like last year
Madison, Wis. — The real MSU finally showed up Saturday as the Spartans lost 37-34 at Wisconsin. We finally know this team can compete with the best. We finally have a reason to be excited and inspired.
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Fight for the right
Madison, Wis. — After sitting out a majority of the past three games injured, senior safety Nehemiah Warrick could not wait to smash pads with an opponent again. Wisconsin wide receiver Kyle Jefferson felt the brunt of that on Saturday.
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Sounding off
A standing ovation from opposing fans, a legitimate congratulatory video message from the previous record holder and a grizzled veteran running around like a rookie. If only all hallowed records could fall like that.
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Spartans fall to Badgers, 37-34
MADISON, Wisc. – Penalties and two failed midfield conversions late in the game turned an MSU upset into an MSU tragedy as the Spartans lost to No.-9 ranked Wisconsin 37-34.
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Former Spartan discusses program status
The State News recently caught up with Spartans football legend Carl Banks to discuss where MSU football has been and where it is going. Banks played as a linebacker at MSU from 1980-83 and became the first non-kicker at MSU to receive first team All-Big Ten honors three consecutive seasons.
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Heisman watch: 7 top candidates in the race
The Heisman Trophy is awarded each season to college football’s most outstanding player. Seven candidates currently lead the nation, but the trophy isn’t won four weeks into the season.
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Bring on the Big 10
A winless MSU team heads to Wisconsin on Saturday to take on the undefeated Badgers as it opens Big Ten play.
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Early grades: How football stacks up now
At this point in the season, records aren’t going to say it all. The Spartans come out of the nonconference schedule 4-0, but face it, the competition hasn’t been exactly stiff. Their toughest opponent was Pittsburgh, and they’ve been here before, only to collapse for the remainder of the season. So here’s how the Spartans look heading into their Big Ten conference schedule.
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Prognosticators
Prognosticators predict the outcomes of the weekend’s upcoming Big Ten football showdowns.
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Wisconsin staff places drinking restrictions on football-goers
If you show, you blow. A new policy at University of Wisconsin, Madison for football games this fall requires students who have been removed from prior games for drunken behavior to submit to a Breathalyzer test for future admittance.
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Spartans, Badgers to engage in evenly matched contest, Big Ten battle up for grabs
Here’s the breakdown for the upcoming Big Ten battle between the Spartans and the Wisconsin Badgers.
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Blowout loss shows Lions' true colors
Hang on folks, I’m pulling the emergency break. It’s now safe for everyone to jump off the Detroit Lions bandwagon — don’t crowd, one at a time will do.
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Injuries shake up depth chart
Senior offensive lineman Mike Gyetvai had never played guard until last week but that didn’t stop him from doing what head coach Mark Dantonio called “a tremendous job” against Notre Dame.
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Spartan revenge
The Spartans won an emotional 31-14 victory over Notre Dame on Saturday, vindicating last year’s heartbreaking loss and sending the Fighting Irish to their first 0-4 start in school history. Almost one year ago, MSU football took a shot to the heart when Notre Dame came back from a 16-point fourth quarter deficit to win in Spartan Stadium on a cold, wet, windy night.
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Broken promises
Notre Dame football head coach Charlie Weis broke a sacred promise to his football team and fans by losing to MSU 31-14 on Saturday. In the summer of 2006, Weis told the Notre Dame faithful that they would never have to worry about losing to the Spartans again.
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Real test for MSU begins next weekend
Not a bad start, Spartans. Only you, Wisconsin, Purdue and Ohio State are undefeated in the Big Ten. You’re on top. But you’ve done this before. You started out 4-0 in 2005, 3-0 in 2006 — this isn’t news to you. You know the season isn’t won in four games. You know the season doesn’t really start until Big Ten play.
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By the book
Junior quarterback Brian Hoyer fumbled the ball twice Saturday against Notre Dame — but one of those fumbles wasn’t by accident. The Spartans decided to try for the first down on fourth-and-one from the Fighting Irish 30-yard line with around three minutes left in the third quarter.
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Spartans defeat Notre Dame
Playing at a school with a lot of history, the Spartans decided to make some of their own on Saturday when they defeated Notre Dame 31-14 – handing them their first ever 0-4 start. MSU also became the first team to ever win six consecutive games at Notre Dame Stadium.