Andre Sims Jr. knows he’s crazy. The thought of 11 college football players running at you with a full head of steam and shouting obscenities triggers fear for most, but for the redshirt freshman, it draws a smile.
When MSU men’s basketball head coach Tom Izzo makes his grand entrance Friday night at Midnight Madness at Breslin Center, it might be his most menacing reveal yet.
For years, MSU Libraries’ Cataloging & Metadata Services Assistant Tom Cocozzoli has been stockpiling cartoon ideas.
When Ethan Yerks graduated from MSU last spring, he didn’t know how much he would miss the days of being a college kid.
John Draeger grew up with everyone around him admiring the Minnesota Gophers. The MSU hockey freshman defenseman and Faribault, Minn., native said growing up, “it (was) just the team” everyone followed. And this weekend, Draeger will step onto the Gophers’ ice for the first time, skating in a green and white jersey to try and hand his home-state team an upset loss.
Last time the MSU volleyball team played at home, the Detroit Tigers were in second place in the AL Central, the Spartan football team was in the top 25 and the first presidential debate was still more than a week away. Let’s just say it’s been a while since the Spartans played in front of their home crowd at Jenison Field House.
After winning two nail-biting games in the state of Ohio last weekend, the MSU field hockey team only was given a short time to relish in their victory.
I was privileged enough to spend most of last week at the Global Women’s Initiative conference in Atlanta. I was one of five finalists for the event’s scholarship essay contest.
Republican hopeful Mitt Romney’s campaign was considered to be killed before election day came. A few weeks ago, polls were showing Romney losing to President Barack Obama in key swing states. Plus, Romney’s gaffes, such as the now-infamous “47 percent” comments, substantially hurt his likeability among potential voters.
MSU police are investigating a backpack theft from Bessey Hall on Oct. 6. An MSU student reported her backpack stolen sometime between 8:30 a.m.
When professor Robert LaDuca heard about mathematics professor John McCarthy’s public breakdown last week, he knew he had to step into the light and publicly announce a secret that has festered within his private life for more than a decade. In class, LaDuca’s students describe him as upbeat and energetic, but there is a “dark side” to the Lyman Briggs and chemistry professor.
Men’s basketball coach Tom Izzo and university officials showed support for the University of Texas in a U.S. Supreme Court case that could decide the face of affirmative action in university admissions policies.
Six candidates vying for public office in Ingham County faced off at a forum Wednesday night, offering the public a chance to question their candidates on topics from economic growth to court sentencing.
Between Sept. 29 and Oct. 1, a group of hackers called Team GhostShell accessed four MSU web servers used for four MSU websites, university spokesman Kent Cassella said in a statement. Team Ghostshell’s mission, called ProjectWestWind, is targeting top-100 universities worldwide, including Harvard University, University of Michigan and Tokyo University, according to the group’s Pastebin.com page.
“Turner and Hooch,” “Legal Eagles” and “Top Gun” all were top hits in the 1980s starring A-list talent such as Tom Hanks, Robert Redford and Tom Cruise — award-winning hits written by the writing duo of MSU alumni Jack Epps Jr. and Jim Cash.
As Thursday marks National Coming Out Day, the LBGT Resource Center collaborated with campus neighborhood caucuses, student organizations and the LGBT Alumni Association to create an entire week of programs and activities to support the LBGT community during MSU’s National Coming Out Week.
Ann Arbor, Mich. – Under the lights at U-M Soccer Stadium, the MSU women’s soccer team lost 2-1 to No. 23 Michigan in a game that took almost one hundred minutes to decide.
The writing was on the wall at the Council of Graduate Students, or COGS, full council meeting on Wednesday – literally.
MSU researchers recently were awarded a $1.7 million federal grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture to conduct a national pollination research project centered around bees.
Before Yifan Zhu came to MSU from China two years ago, she hadn’t met Sparty. To her, university mascots were just a face on a flag, not a figure you could wave to and hug.