After racking up 292 total yards and accounting for six touchdowns on the road against Texas, Notre Dame quarterback Deshone Kizer cemented himself as one of the Fighting Irish's heaviest weapons.
After a year long process of surgery, rehabilitation, graduation and a drawn out paper filing process, Ed Davis will play a sixth year for the MSU football team.
After missing the 2015 football season with a torn ACL, MSU linebacker Ed Davis has been granted a sixth year of eligibility by the NCAA. The news broke in a tweet by head football coach Mark Dantonio shortly before 11:30 a.m.
Sixth-year senior Kevin Williams is a battler. The Nebraska transfer lost both his 2011 and 2013 seasons to knee injuries and fought through a groin injury in 2015. Injuries have not kept him down, and now he plans on becoming an integral part of MSU’s defensive line rotation.
MSU football will hold a walk-on tryout meeting on Monday, Sept. 12 at 4 p.m. in the Pentecost Team Meeting Room inside the Skandalaris Football Center.
University of Buffalo, Memphis University, Oregon State University, Stanford University and MSU all have one thing in common: their bye falls in week 2 of the college football season.
MSU will enter its bye week ranked No. 8 in the nation following the release of the USA Today Coaches Poll Tuesday afternoon. After starting the year ranked No. 11 in the coaches poll, MSU's harder-than-expected victory over Furman didn't cost them any slippage in large due to two top 10 teams falling in week one.
State News sports editor Casey Harrison and football beat writer Stephen Olschanski bring you show No. 2 of the TSN Sports Podcast.
MSU football’s growing pain victory over Furman on Friday came with the caveat reserved for wins with less than desirable means of victory — they all count one.
Walking into the media wing of Spartan Stadium following his team’s grinding 28-13 win over Furman University, Mark Dantonio neither smiled nor scowled.
Postgame interviews for MSU football’s 28-13 victory over Furman began with two seniors captains; quarterback Tyler O’Connor and linebacker Riley Bullough.
Josiah Price, normally kept from the mouth of the public address announcer recorded two penalties — one a fifteen yard personal foul, the other a hold.
MSU football opened up their season with a seven play, 76 yard scoring drive in under four minutes. The following 56 were inert and underactive with flashes of potential, but mental lapses on both sides of the ball allowed Furman to stick around for the majority of the game. A philosophy one could take after MSU’s 28-13 win? Survive and advance.
On a beautiful 72 degree evening at Spartan Stadium, jam packed with 74,516 members of the Spartan faithful, the MSU football team opened the season defeating FCS opponent Furman 28-13.
It didn't take long for MSU to get rolling, as R.J. Shelton took a reverse sweep 32 yards on the first play from scrimmage. L.J.
Follow along with The State News football writers, Nathaniel Bott and Stephen Olschanski, on the live blog as #12 MSU football takes on Furman.
R.J. Shelton’s final first snap of his senior year will come with a different feeling. For the past three years he wasn’t the eldest of the receivers, he wasn’t the most experienced, nor the man who lined up on a crucial third down knowing the ball was coming to him no matter the coverage. And after watching the likes of Bennie Fowler, Tony Lippett and Aaron Burbridge shoulder the weight of the receiving corps and be the go to guy, Shelton wants to add his name to the list of top Spartan pass catchers.
The State News is proud to announce a new podcast, with football beat writer Stephen Olschanski and sports desk editor Casey Harrison as the leading personalities. In the first episode of The State News Podcast, Stephen and Casey introduce themselves, reveal the format for the show, discuss layout and content for future episodes and discuss the top sports headlines across the country.
When FCS opponent Furman and head coach Bruce Fowler roll into Spartan Stadium Friday evening, they will be greeted with a sea of green and white that’s stands 75,000 strong filled with fans anxious to build off last season’s appearance in the College Football Playoff.
Already widely heralded as one of the top linebacker groups in the nation by various pundits and media outlets MSU junior linebacker Jon Reschke said Tuesday afternoon the he and his fellow linebackers have the capability of being the best corps in the nation at the end of the season.