The Big Bear is coming back to East Lansing. The No. 18 MSU men’s soccer team finished off the regular season in style with a 2-0 win against arch rival Michigan Saturday afternoon at DeMartin Stadium.
It’s obvious when you look at No. 1 Kentucky’s roster. Seven McDonald’s All-Americans, more than a handful of future NBA first-round picks, and arguably the greatest pool of freshman talent ever assembled at one school for a single college basketball season.
Allie Ahern to the rescue. The junior forward scored the game-winning goal in double overtime to help the Spartans (11-9 overall, 4-2 Big Ten) defeat Ohio State, 2-1, and progress to the championship round of the Big Ten Tournament.
This time last year, Branden Dawson and Travis Trice were coming off of a summer where neither were able play and develop. Dawson, a junior forward, was recovering from a torn anterior cruciate ligament he sustained in the final regular season game against Ohio State during his freshman year.
The No. 2 MSU men’s basketball team pushed the pace — and cruised to a win. The Spartans (1-0 overall) won the first home opener at Breslin Center since 2010 by beating McNesse State, 98-56.
The No. 2 MSU men’s basketball team came out of the gates pushing the tempo and shooting a plethora of threes, and lead McNeese State, 52-25, in the first half of the college basketball season. Immediately after the tip, senior guard Keith Appling found sophomore guard Gary Harris for an open 3-pointer – his first of three in the half. The Spartans kept shooting from downtown and finished 8-16 from beyond the 3-point line. MSU also kept the pressure on the Cowboys offensively.
The MSU men’s hockey team is going to uncharted territory this weekend — at least for the last 29 years. The Spartans (3-3 overall) head to Houghton, Mich., for the first time since 1984 to take on Michigan Tech (1-6-1 overall, 1-1 WCHA) in a two-game series Friday and Saturday at 7 p.m.
The five-month journey begins tonight. Ask any MSU men’s basketball player what their goal is for the season, and the same answer will come every time.? It’s not to improve their draft stock or grab as many minutes as possible, but a shared team goal that rests about 1,135 miles away — winning the national championship in Arlington, Texas. The road to Arlington starts when the Spartans take on McNeese State at 7 p.m. at Breslin Center.
A student on a bicycle was struck by a car at about 10 a.m. Nov. 5 near Shaw Lane and Wilson Road, according to police.
The U.S. Department of Education is hoping to eradicate some of the misunderstanding around ways to pay back student loan debt with a new outreach program designed to teach graduates about more affordable options when paying back their loans. In a statement released this week, the department said it will be ?sending emails about loan payment options to about 3.5 million recent graduates.
Several environmental films will be screened at the East Lansing Film Festival, and MSU officials and local community members will be speaking about the films in a panel discussion on Saturday. The films being shown are “Trashed,” about the impact of littering; “More than Honey,” about the importance of honeybees and “Food for Change: The Story of Cooperation in America,” about food cooperatives.
Junior forward Abby Barker has Indiana’s number. Barker posted her second three-goal game of the season, during her second game of the season against Indiana, on Thursday helping MSU shut out the Hoosiers 6-0 and advance to the second round of the Big Ten Tournament.
Jairus Jones’ knee injury will keep him sidelined for the remaining of the season, head coach Mark Dantonio said before practice Thursday, implying the senior linebacker’s playing career at MSU likely has ended. When Jones went down in the Spartans’ game at Notre Dame on Sept. 21 with what was described as a medial collateral ligament, or MCL injury, he was originally given a six-week timetable to recover.
It all comes down to this. The last game of the regular season for the No. 18 MSU men’s soccer team (9-4-3 overall, 2-2-1 Big Ten) against Michigan (8-5-3 overall, 3-2 Big Ten), and senior day presents the Spartans with one emotional afternoon at DeMartin Stadium, in the Battle for The Big Bear Trophy.
It isn’t uncommon to be approached by someone begging for spare change while walking along Grand River Avenue. However, until about four weeks ago, the act of panhandling was actually considered illegal under East Lansing’s City Code.
The concept of Relationship Lite is simple: It’s an arrangement between two people who go out together, watch movies together, cuddle, tease each other, meet each other’s friends and, of course, have sex.
As he delicately dips the needles into the vibrant ink, Nate Kraus exudes quiet peace. With determined precision, he shades a tree on a girl’s calf with splashes of greens, pinks and browns. Kraus, a tattoo artist at Splash of Color Tattoo & Piercing Studio, cannot pinpoint how many tattoos he has completed in his eight years as a professional tattoo artist.
For the past 16 years the East Lansing Film Festival, or ELFF, has been dedicated to bringing diverse, independent and foreign films to the city of East Lansing.? This year, Michigan’s largest film festival has returned, running through Nov. 14 and screening 72 documentary and feature films at Wells Hall and Studio C!, in Okemos.
Students might not to have to serve their jury duty during college semesters if the state Senate approves a new state bill the House OK’d last Wednesday. Rep. Kevin Cotter, R-Mount Pleasant, introduced the bill, which would let full-time college students postpone duty until the end of the school year.
Earlier today, it was announced the annual State Farm Champions Classic will be renewed for three more years. The Champions Classic is an annual basketball doubleheader headlined by powerhouses Duke, Kansas, Kentucky and MSU.