COLUMN: Three MSU sports storylines to follow this year
The State News' sports editor Thomas Cobb picks his three biggest MSU sports storylines to follow in 2024-2025.
The State News' sports editor Thomas Cobb picks his three biggest MSU sports storylines to follow in 2024-2025.
This academic year, we filed hundreds of requests with Michigan State University’s Freedom of Information Act Office. Sometimes, the redactions are quite funny — at least to FOIA nerds like us. We’ve compiled the funniest FOIA redactions of this academic year.
Only one listen of Taylor Swift’s "The Tortured Poet’s Department," or TTPD, isn't enough to make a fair judgement. Here’s my ranking of TTPD, before the 15 surprise songs dropped.
Events and entertainment reporter Liam Clymer traveled to Findlay, Ohio last minute to see the solar eclipse in totality. This is how his journey went.
We see the term OCD being tossed around in casual conversation, usually describing a desire for perfection or a need for cleanliness. However, obsessive-compulsive disorder is much more than this.
Beyoncé’s creativity knows no bounds, and she refuses to be constrained by genre, or societal conceptions of who is allowed to make certain types of music and who isn’t on latest album "Cowboy Carter."
At first, me actually trying out for the team was a joke with my friends and coworkers. However, as the tryouts neared, I began to see this as an opportunity. At worst, this would provide an hour of fun while being able to feel the rush of a competitive sport again. And at best, I would get to dawn a green and white uniform on the Spartan Stadium field next fall.
In 1989, director Rob Reiner’s “When Harry Met Sally…” brought an intense debate to the big screen: Can cisgender, heterosexual men and women have truly platonic friendships?
Ticketmaster hosted the sale for Olivia Rodrigo's "GUTS" tour in September, along with the controversial sale for Taylor Swift’s “The Eras Tour” this past summer. Many users could not secure tickets to either concert due to Ticketmaster’s “Verified Fan” system, which forces users to enter a presale raffle with a verified account. Nowadays, even just the opportunity to pay for ridiculously overpriced tickets is a prize.
In honor of the 38th National Girls and Women in Sports Day, the women of The State News sports and multimedia desks share what the day means to us. Here are our stories, our struggles and our victories to give a little perspective on why today, and every day, we celebrate women and girls playing and working in sports.
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