A win over Penn State on Saturday at the Palestra would have showed immense growth for the Spartans — especially for MSU's freshmen class. It was the first time head coach Tom Izzo started all four of the highly touted first-year class at the same time, a moment that was inevitable from the very start of the season.
This letter is in response to City Pulse, Todd Heywood and his article titled “Milo fallout.” Heywood’s piece was in reference to Breitbart News Senior Editor Milo Yiannopoulos and his visit to MSU on Dec. 7.
Sorting the game of basketball out is like placing a puzzle together. You find your four corners first, then build your outside foundation before finally sorting out the detailed pieces. Through the first 10 games of MSU men's basketball, head coach Tom Izzo has found two of his corner pieces in freshman forward Miles Bridges and freshman guard Cassius Winston.
This is in response to David Douglass's opinion piece. The First Amendment is not limited to writings that we all agree with.
Sports editor Casey Harrison and newsroom personality Stephen Olschanski talk the College Football Playoff, why Stephen can never be happy for Penn State and how MSU basketball needs more toughness.
On Wednesday, controversial journalist and alt-right figure Milo Yiannopoulos is slated to speak at MSU.
Michigan State University plans to host an event by Milo Yiannopoulos, a demagogue whose speaking tour, the “Dangerous Faggot Tour,” has incited a rash of hate crimes and physical confrontations at numerous universities.
After a 78-69 loss in Durham, North Carolina to the Duke Blue Devils, the MSU basketball team fell to 4-4 on the season.
Earlier this week, an Ohio State University student drove his car into a group of pedestrians on campus.
Sports editor Casey Harrison and football writer Stephen Olschanski are joined by basketball writer Connor Clark to talk MSU's game against Duke and if the Big Ten football title game has an appeal at all?
The human highlight reel, freshman guard Miles Bridges came into his collegiate career the star of arguably Head Coach Tom Izzo’s best recruiting class. Bridges showed his value early, scoring 21 points with 7 rebounds in a thrilling loss against then-No. 10 Arizona. It’s no surprise the Spartans look to him to provide momentum and scoring.
On the Tuesday before Thanksgiving, I went home and saw my brother play in a district basketball game. “You played well,” I told him afterwards. My brother’s squad—the good guys—bounded ahead to a 15-point lead in the first quarter, only to abdicate it at the hands of a bloodthirsty full-court press in the second half.
In the aftermath of Donald Trump's election, I call upon our community to protect undocumented Spartans. As a leader of the Graduate Employees Union, our labor union for Teaching Assistants on campus, I know that our undocumented members, students, and friends are a vital part of our Spartan family, and we must fight to protect them.
Only two things have ever been consistent for MSU football in 2016. A lead then a loss. No matter what it tried, which personnel subbed in, which packages it dumbed down, its points would never be enough.
Early in the fourth quarter of MSU football’s 17-16 senior day loss to No. 2 Ohio State, MSU head coach Mark Dantonio reached into his bag of tricks and pulled out a fake punt –– one where junior linebacker Chris Frey took the direct snap and ran 25 yards down the sideline for a first down.
A newsroom full of young journalists fell faint at around 2:30 a.m. on Nov. 9 and for possibly the first time in their careers, words could not explain the means. I received a call, one as an editor you hope you never have to hear.
In 2011, assistant Penn State University football coach Jerry Sandusky was charged with 51 counts of child molestation.
State News sports editor Casey Harrison and football writer Stephen Olschanski discuss MSU going for two late in the game against Ohio State, Stephen rants about the "rivalry" between MSU and Penn State and the guys talk about the clock error against FGCU.
Leaves falling, frigid weather emerging, and a number of “friends-giving” activities well underway: the sure signs for a time of giving “thanks” to our Spartan friends and family.
State News sports editor Casey Harrison and football writer Stephen Olschanski discuss the impending Ohio State beatdown, the College Football Playoff and MSU basketball Kentucky.