Arguably the biggest challenge of the season looms Sunday in State College, Pa., in the second stop of what MSU women’s basketball coach Suzy Merchant calls the “February fight.”
Two weeks after announcing Ted Gill wouldn’t be returning as the Spartans’ defensive line coach, the MSU football team has found its man.
Stepping out of the training room, ice pack strapped to his shoulder, the 157-pound senior struggled to keep his composure as he reminisced about his time in green and white.
The annual jubilation and enthusiasm surrounding national signing day — the day when college football’s biggest recruits sign letters of intent — swept optimism across the sport’s biggest fan bases Wednesday.
With Bowling Green next in the schedule and the end of the regular season drawing closer, the MSU hockey team is looking to follow the path the Falcons did last season.
National signing day on Wednesday marked the official start of 18 high schoolers’ journeys as MSU football players. As with essentially every class in head coach Mark Dantonio’s tenure, the national recruiting analysts have pegged the Spartans’ 2013 class somewhere near the mid 30s in terms of national rankings.
As Tom Izzo made his way to the podium he handed off a towel, took a seat, sighed and smiled. The always-talkative Izzo caught himself in a rare moment, “speechless” — unsure of what to say about a performance that didn’t meet his expectations and a team growing more hobbled by the second. “I’m healthy, my wife’s healthy, my trainer’s in great shape, other than that we’ve got problems,” Izzo said. It started with Gary Harris’ back. Then it was Branden Dawson’s ankle. Add on a bloody — initially feared to be broken — nose for Adreian Payne, a shoulder popping out of place for Keith Appling, and a head injury that prevented Travis Trice from even suiting up. One can begin to understand why Izzo is simply thankful for his own health. Despite it all, the No.
It certainly wasn’t a pretty showing by the No. 12 MSU men’s basketball team Wednesday at Breslin Center.
National signing day is one of the only times each year when the fax machine is once again relevant, and the hopes of an entire fan base are on the shoulders of a teenager.
Football is Damion Terry’s life — his obsession. Those are his words.
Tom Anastos received a text message last week and it has been stuck in ever since. It said something along the lines of “difficult times don’t define one’s character, they reveal it.”
After plodding through an ugly first half, the No. 12 MSU men’s basketball team (19-4 overall, 8-2 Big Ten) used an energetic second half to come from behind and defeat No. 18 Minnesota (17-6, 5-5), 61-50, on Wednesday night at Breslin Center.
Sometimes two teams get entangled in a rugged defensive struggle, where both teams fight to exert their will on the opposition. This was not one of those times.
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MSU football signed its 2013 recruiting class Wednesday. See highlights of each of MSU’s incoming recruits here.
Tom Izzo has developed many friends in the coaching business. After 18 years with the MSU men’s basketball program, it’s bound to happen.
The MSU women’s hoops team really needed Monday’s victory over Michigan. It needed it to maintain dominance over the Spartans’ arch rival.
When Branden Dawson thinks about his performance in MSU’s past game, Thursday against Illinois, one word sticks in his mind — “embarrassing.”
John Draeger said if possible, he would stay on the ice for every minute of every hockey game. Some days, his body probably feels like it does.
The MSU women’s basketball team welcomed first-year Michigan coach Kim Barnes Arico to the in-state rivalry in overwhelming fashion Monday night. Once the Spartans overcame a poor shooting stretch at the beginning the game, the rout was on. MSU (18-4 overall, 6-3 Big Ten) took advantage of an explosive run in the second half to down rival Michigan (16-6, 5-4) for the 12th consecutive time, 61-46. “I think Michigan State is the program that sets the bar, obviously, for the state of Michigan,” Barnes Arico said. “They have a great fan base.