With 148 days until the MSU football team’s season opener against California, there’s one guy making plays as if the Spartans take the field tomorrow afternoon — senior saftey Otis Wiley.
Proggin’ around like nobody’s business, the prognosticators have the 411 on men’s and women’s basketball.
Justin Abdelkader has had a busy 24 hours. After deciding to forgo his senior season, the MSU hockey junior forward was signed to an amateur tryout with the Detroit Red Wings and made his NHL debut Thursday night against Columbus.
For four innings, things looked grim for the MSU softball team during its game on Wednesday. Eastern Michigan tallied two runs early in the first and second innings, stealing momentum from the Spartans.
With a win on Wednesday, the MSU baseball team put a stop to an opponent’s winning streak that the Spartans started.
Tom Crean knows what’s ahead. After spending nine years putting Marquette back on the national map, Crean faces a more daunting challenge: rebuilding Indiana’s legacy. He replaces Kelvin Sampson, who resigned before last season ended amid NCAA allegations of recruiting violations.
Just because it’s spring doesn’t mean the MSU football team isn’t head to toe in pads, duking it out for starting positions in the fall.
Considering the MSU women’s basketball team’s habit of pulling out last-minute wins, its new theme song might as well be the Bee Gees’ “Stayin’ Alive.”
It didn’t take long for Bryan Lerg to find a new home following the MSU hockey team’s season-ending 3-1 loss to Notre Dame on Saturday.
Though his time leading the MSU men’s basketball team has come to an end, Drew Neitzel isn’t finished representing the Green and White.
Three down, two to go. The MSU women’s basketball team heads into the semifinals of the WNIT tonight against North Carolina State with one goal: to win a championship.
After tweaking his knee in the last few minutes of a Thursday practice in preparation for Friday’s men’s basketball contest against Memphis, junior forward Marquise Gray clocked just one minute of playing time in the Sweet 16 loss. And it was released today by head coach Tom Izzo that Gray is expected to undergo knee surgery for a torn meniscus.
Ice hockey — out. Men’s basketball — out. In terms of the postseason, the MSU women’s basketball team is all we have left. The Spartans will play in the semifinals of the WNIT on Wednesday with a change to play in a national championship game.
From the small town of Paducah, Ky., to the super-sized campus of MSU, junior catcher Eric Roof and freshman shortstop Jonathan Roof always have been on the same team.
The MSU hockey team’s quest to defend its national title went up in blue and gold smoke Saturday night. With a trip to the Frozen Four on the line, No. 4 seed Notre Dame continued its improbable run with a 3-1 win over the Spartans at World Arena. With a win and a tie against the Fighting Irish this season MSU had reason to be confident heading into the game. Unfortunately, it never translated to this game. “I knew exactly what type of game they would play and (head coach) Jeff (Jackson) had them ready,” MSU head coach Rick Comley said.
And then there was one. Barely skidding through the WNIT quarterfinals Sunday, the MSU women’s basketball team defeated Michigan in overtime, 45-40, at Breslin Center.
In a sea of burnt orange T-shirts and hats, every so often refreshing waves of green would splash onto the humid streets of Houston.
As the clock wound down on MSU’s Sweet 16 loss to Memphis and its season, Tom Izzo took a glimpse into the future. The MSU head coach rotated freshmen guards Kalin Lucas, Chris Allen and Durrell Summers in with sophomore forward Raymar Morgan, junior center Goran Suton and junior guard Travis Walton as seniors Drew Naymick and Drew Neitzel said their goodbyes.
After dropping both games of a doubleheader to Illinois on Saturday, MSU baseball coach David Grewe declared Sunday’s twin bill against the Illini as “Survival Sunday.”
Early on, it was more of a slam-dunk contest than a basketball game, and unfortunately for the MSU men’s basketball team, they weren’t invited to the aerial circus.