MSU baseball head coach David Grewe announced that A.J. Dunn, a pitcher from Grand Ledge, signed a national letter of intent to play for the Spartans in the 2006 season on Saturday. Dunn, a four-year letter winner at Grand Ledge High School, was an all-district team and all-region team member as a senior.
The new addition to Spartan Stadium has everyone from coaches to players raving about its more attractive look. The renovations make the stadium look similar to Purdue or Ohio State's, mainly because MSU used the same architect as the aforementioned universities, and many of the design elements are the same, said Greg Ianni, senior associate athletics director for facilities and sports management.
It's been almost 40 years since anyone did what sophomore Ryan Brehm accomplished - he made the cut in the Buick Open as an amateur. There were 156 players at the start of the tournament, but only the top 79 made the cut.
MSU women's track and field head coach Angela Goodman announced last week that Chris Campbell has been hired as an assistant coach. Campbell will work with both men and women's throwers, along with putting together training programs for the women's multi-event team members. For the past six seasons, Campbell worked at Fresno State as a coach and recruiting coordinator, the last two of which he served as assistant head coach.
MSU head coach John L. Smith said the MSU team is going to be in the same situation it was last year. "At least for another year until our depth gets better, we're going to have to stay healthy," Smith said Monday in Chicago at the Big Ten Media Day. The problem for the Spartans last season was staying healthy, especially at the quarterback position, as both former Spartan Damon Dowdell and junior starter this season, Drew Stanton, missed time with injuries. This season, Stanton is the only quarterback left with game experience, as redshirt freshman Brian Hoyer and freshman Domenic Natale have yet to take a snap in a college football game.
Chicago - Every season has its changes, but the Big Ten's best are expected to continue performing at an elite level. Michigan and Ohio State are again picked to finish as the top two teams in the conference, with Iowa placing third. The Wolverines return 16 starters including sophomore quarterback Chad Henne and running back Michael Hart.
MSU men's hockey freshman forward Justin Abdelkader was selected by the Detroit Red Wings in the second round of the National Hockey League Entry Draft on Saturday. In addition to Abdelkader, freshman forward Tim Crowder was chosen by the Pittsburgh Penguins in the fifth round and the Washington Capitals picked freshman forward Tim Kennedy in the sixth round. Abdelkader scored 27 goals and 25 assists as a forward on the Cedar Rapids Rough Riders of the United States Hockey League, or USHL.
MSU women's basketball senior forward Liz Shimek was chosen as one of 12 members for the 2005 USA Women's World University Games Team to compete Aug.
It's the middle of the summer and the beginning of August, so it's tough to get excited about the upcoming hockey season, but why not be excited about it? After this weekend, the National Hockey League has a full schedule, rookies from not one year but two - seeing as there was no draft last summer - and the rules are going to be different. Opening night is Oct.
MSU baseball head coach David Grewe announced the hiring of two assistant coaches, Mike Steele and Tony Baldwin, on Tuesday. Steele has been playing Minor League Baseball for the last five years as a pitcher and is a former Central Michigan player and Midland, Mich., native.
MSU redshirt freshman center Goran Suton will travel with the Big Ten Men's Basketball Foreign Tour Team from Aug.
MSU sophomore golfer Ryan Brehm qualified for the 2005 Buick Open, which will be held from Thursday to Sunday at the Warwick Hills Golf & Country Club in Grand Blanc. Brehm shot a 5-under 67 and tied for third place at the open qualifier on Monday at the Fieldstone Golf Club in Auburn Hills, Mich.
MSU junior guard Victoria Lucas-Perry and junior center Katrina Grantham each scored six points in the fifth and final game of the Big Ten Foreign Tour Team's trip to Europe. The squad finished with a 5-0 record, after a 110-40 rout against Luxembourg Musel Pikes in Remich, Luxembourg, on Monday night. Lucas-Perry led the Big Ten team in rebounding for the tour with an average 4.8 rebounds per game, while averaging 8.2 points and 2.2 assists per game.
Last week, the Big Ten Conference announced its Bowl game lineup for the 2006-09 college football seasons, which will include two new bowls for the conference. The league signed off on four-year extensions with the Capital One, Outback and Alamo Bowls and signed new four-year agreements with the Champs Sports and Insight Bowls.
Oct. 2, 2005 - The Detroit Tigers defeat the Minnesota Twins and win the American League Wild Card by one game. At the beginning of the season, the Wild Card spot was just a tiny thought in the minds of Tigers fans. The Chicago White Sox took control of the Central Division early and have run away with the title, while the Tigers slipped below .500 and into third or fourth place, out of contention for any playoff consideration. However, as of Sunday, the Tigers were back to the .500-mark at 49-49 and only four games out of the Wild Card lead, held by Minnesota and Oakland.
MSU junior guard Victoria Lucas-Perry and junior center Katrina Grantham and the Big Ten Foreign Tour team continued their winning ways in Belgium on Saturday night, with a 78-77 win over the Belgium National Team in Brussels. Lucas-Perry had 11 points and six rebounds, and Grantham had two points and two rebounds in the victory. Lucas-Perry made only one field goal, but made 9-for-10 from the free-throw line, for her second double-digit point total of the tour.
This weekend, MSU football head coach John L. Smith suspended senior cornerback Jaren Hayes for an indefinite period of time. The suspension was for an off-field incident, and it prevents Hayes from participating in any football-related activities. MSU Associate Athletics Director John Lewandowski said there is no timetable for Hayes' return to the team.
MSU junior guard Shannon Brown did not make the cut for the 12-man roster for the Men's USA Basketball under-21 team. Brown, Oklahoma St.
The Big Ten Foreign Tour team and MSU juniors center Katrina Grantham and guard Victoria Lucas-Perry are still undefeated after winning two games over the Netherlands National Team. In a 107-52 win, Grantham had six points and two rebounds, while Lucas-Perry had five points and a team-high five assists. In an 88-52 victory in Amsterdam on Thursday night, the team improved to 3-0 before they headed to Belgium to play the Belgian National Team on Saturday night.
In the next week, MSU could respectively place one woman and one man on the USA World University Games Team and the USA Basketball Men's under-21 Team. From today through Friday, MSU junior guard Shannon Brown will be trying out for the men's under-21 team in Dallas.