MSU Green and White Spring Game sets the tone for preseason football
The Spartans concluded their 15 spring practices with the annual Green and White Spring game on Saturday.
The Spartans concluded their 15 spring practices with the annual Green and White Spring game on Saturday.
Tyler O’Connor has a phone, just like many of his quarterbacking counterparts in college football do. in college football do. He doesn’t keep a picture of himself or a loved one as his screen background, though. Instead, his background is a list of goals for the spring. The first goal?
The annual MSU football Green-White Spring Game ended with the White team defeated the Green team 14-11 in a game with running clocks, 12 minute quarters and even a coach’s challenge.
MSU football’s annual Green-White Spring Game brought a record crowd of 51,000 fans to Spartan Stadium for the event, and they saw a White team led by junior quarterback Damion Terry come out victorious by a score of 14-11 on a sunny April afternoon.
Swarms of young Spartan fans turned out for the MSU football team's annual youth clinic Saturday, which the team holds every year prior to the team's Green vs.
MSU football head coach Mark Dantonio is facing a similar situation to the 2013 season with uncertainty at the quarterback position.
Spring practice in 2016 is all but over for the MSU football team. At the beginning of the spring, there were holes on the team the Spartans were looking to fill.
Two defensive players for MSU, sophomore defensive lineman Craig Evans and sophomore defensive end Montez Sweat have left the team for personal reasons, per a release by MSU.
He was never happier than when he played football for MSU, that's what Raymond Spencer said of his father Raymond Muhammad Spencer, who played football at MSU from 1972-76. Raymond Muhammad Spencer starred as an offensive lineman for MSU during his time, and became the first ever freshman to start on the MSU varsity football team.
The Spartan defensive line is going through a major overhaul currently. Former Spartans Shilique Calhoun, Joel Heath, and Lawrence Thomas all graduated.
With the loss of three starters off a dominant defensive line MSU will look to now junior defensive tackle Malik McDowell to take the next step in his maturation and help sixth-year-senior Damon Knox lead the Spartan defensive front.
While MSU football’s wide receivers and offensive linemen are mostly tasked to do one job, the tight ends are often asked to do a lot.
Michigan State University wide receiver, Darrell Stewart Jr., looks to fill the huge void left in the wide receiver department after the departures of Aaron Burbridge and Macgarrett Kings Jr.
It was about 11:30 p.m. the night of April 10, and I sat in my bed going through the story ideas of my reporters on The State News’ sports desk. I took a break to scroll down twitter, and I noticed a post containing the final column Joe Rexrode would write for the Detroit Free Press.
Among a thrilling quarterback battle that figures to draw the most storylines in East Lansing this spring, a stout freshman quietly works on his craft.
Before the sun shines upon East Lansing, a typical day begins for Ken Mannie, the head strength and conditioning coach of the MSU football team.
For the first time in three years, the MSU football team enters spring practice without 100 percent certainty of who its starting quarterback will be when they open up the 2016 season. Connor Cook was the guy the last three years.
MSU senior fullback Delton Williams has been through a lot during the last 13 months. A little more than a year ago, Williams was arrested for flashing a pistol at another driver on MSU’s campus.
For the MSU football team, defense has been their namesake for years now. A big reason the Spartans have won two of the last three Big Ten championships is because they leaned on their defense to stifle opponents consistently. While in recent Spartan lore, the secondary has taken a lot of the credit, there seems to be a shift this upcoming fall.