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COLUMN: Tough start for Spartans means team is getting better
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.
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Editorial: Spartans need to be aware of how to handle emergency situations
Earlier this week, an Ohio State University student drove his car into a group of pedestrians on campus.
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TSN Podcast 26 — MSU basketball struggles and is the Big Ten title game appealing?
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?
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Column: Izzo, MSU basketball has found their needed big man
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.
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Column: MSU soccer has bright future, but could have advanced further this season
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.
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Letter: We must protect our undocumented Spartans
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.
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COLUMN: MSU football and a road not yet seen
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.
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COLUMN: Loss of Sadler, Hicks affected Spartans on the field all season
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.
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Column: Media under attack, even at MSU
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.
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Editorial: The power of athletic programs needs to be kept in check
In 2011, assistant Penn State University football coach Jerry Sandusky was charged with 51 counts of child molestation.
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TSN Podcast 24: A Penn State rant plus going for two?
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.
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Letter: In spirit of thankfulness
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.
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TSN Podcast 23 - Uncle Urban's retribution
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.
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Letter: Reflections on the police and anti-Trump protests
Reflections Regarding the police and the anti-Trump Protest, written by participants and sympathizers
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COLUMN: Rutgers win provides minor reprieve in dismal year
The battle of this year’s bums of the Big Ten turned out to be nothing more than a cask of pent up frustration finally splintering then exploding all over Spartan Stadium on Saturday as MSU captured its first win in nearly seven weeks. In the time between wins, the FBI sifted through a trove of newly found Clinton emails and came up empty handed, the Cubs won the World Series, the United States elected Donald Trump as President-elect, Dos-a-Cero came to an end and Ohio State fell from the top five only to wind up at No. 2 by Sunday.
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TSN Podcast 22 - A wild weekend in college football plus MSU basketball's loss to Arizona
Stephen Olschanski and Casey Harrison talk a wild weekend in college football and Connor Clark joins to talk basketball's crazy finish against Arizona.
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TSN Podcast 21 - Stephen returns and so does MSU basketball season
Football writer Stephen Olschanski returns to the show, Connor Clark joins again for a full show and the group breaks down MSU basketball's game with Arizona and football's matchup with Rutgers.
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Letter: MSU College Dems. talk future of country and Thursday's rally
As we take today to allow the results of the election to continue to sink in, we recognize what a pivotal moment in history and time that we are now entering.
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TSN Podcast 20 - MSU is still struggling and Stephen gets replaced
Sports desk editor Casey Harrison and features desk editor Connor Clark discuss the current state of affairs concerning MSU football. Do personnel changes need to be made? Is U-M's Jabrill Peppers deserving of the Heisman?
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COLUMN: It's time for Dantonio to shake things up for MSU football
For all intents and purposes, let’s say MSU beats Rutgers next Saturday. Then we can assume an Ohio State team that just manhandled No. 10 Nebraska embarrasses the Spartans in East Lansing and MSU proceeds to fall to No. 12 Penn State to end the season. That would mean MSU football finishes the season 3-9 with one Big Ten win just a year removed from a College Football Playoff appearance.