Despite a late comeback, the MSU gymnastics team lost to Western Michigan, 193.5-192.725, Saturday night in the Spartan’s season opener at Jenison Field House.
The MSU wrestling team had a tough weekend as they lost to North Carolina and Clarion on Saturday and No. 1 Penn State on Sunday.
Last Friday, the Council of Graduate Students, or COGS, announced an upcoming trip to watch MSU’s annual hockey game against rival University of Michigan on Feb. 2 at Joe Louis Arena, in Detroit. COGS will be providing 200 tickets to graduate students for $7 each. The ticket also will include free transportation to Detroit and back, if the student chooses.
Assistant professor within the College of Communication Arts and Sciences Jessica Luo Carlo died Jan. 2.
The MSU women’s swimming and diving team did not get the new year off to a good start as they dropped their first two home meets of the spring semester on back to back days this weekend.
After a tough road win against Iowa last week, the No. 22 MSU men’s basketball team (13-3 overall, 2-1 Big Ten) returned home Sunday night with many expecting a slight reprieve.
As an MSU professor who has encountered a few students who appear to be mentally ill, I was drawn with interest to The State News article, “Fragile: As mental health enters national debate, MSU reaches out to community.”
The Spartans hung on late to close out a win in their first road game of the Big Ten season Sunday evening, knocking off Illinois 79-75. Though the up-and-down pace favored the high-scoring Illini for most of the game, the balanced scoring and defensive disposition of the MSU women’s basketball team prevailed in Champaigne, Ill.
Now that the election coverage finally has been expunged from our systems, one word keeps gnawing at my brain — the word, “professional.”
November was a great month for supporters of easing laws against marijuana use. Following the election, residents from states across the country, including Colorado and Washington, helped pass referendums to reduce penalties for possession of the drug and even ways to make it easier to obtain or grow. Many cities also made similar decisions on easing drug restrictions, including five cities in Michigan.
MSU men’s basketball team takes on Nebraska tonight at Breslin Center. Follow our live blog below with coverage from State News men’s basketball reporter Dillon Davis.
Longtime MSU Museum curator Val Berryman died Friday morning, according to the museum’s website.
After eight periods of hockey without a single goal, the MSU hockey team (6-13-3-5 overall, 5-10-0 CCHA) kept reiterating the goals eventually would come.
Hockey, like many sports, is a game that can be considered a “game of inches.” As MSU hockey (5-13-3 overall, 4-10-1-0 CCHA) senior forward Chris Forfar put it, an inch in one direction can make the game work in your favor, but it could just as easily work that way for the other team.
In the first half of the series between the two, Notre Dame beat MSU, 1-0. A series of penalties in the first period resulted in MSU sophomore forward Brent Darnell being sent off the ice for the game with a 5-game major and a game misconduct.
On Sunday the MSU women’s basketball team will hit the road for the first time in the young Big Ten season to take on a high-scoring Illinois squad. In a strength versus strength matchup, the defensive-minded Spartans (13-2 Big Ten, 1-1 Overall), who allow 45.6 points per game, will be tested by the Illini offense that averages 72.7 points per contest led star forward Karisma Penn. Four Illinois (9-6, 2-1) starters average 13 points or more, headlined by Penn’s 20-points and 10-plus rebounds per contest.
At Friday afternoon’s Board of Trustees meeting, members of the board addressed organizational matters.
Indeed it has been a long trek for Shawn D’Annunzio. Fueled by her son’s memory, Shawn D’Annunzio spent nearly two years working to pass a law bearing her son’s name. On Dec. 14, 2012, Gov. Rick Snyder signed Brandon D’Annunzio’s Law.
During a December 2012 meeting, the East Lansing City Council voted 3-2 to keep a rule requiring restaurants subject to the 50/50 ordinance to report their sales every 90 days intact.
MSU’s beloved dog, who has entertained Spartan fans during many MSU football halftime shows, will display his talents on a national stage this weekend.