An 80-yard touchdown drive with 1:20 remaining helped No. 21 Nebraska (7-2 overall, 4-1 Big Ten) stun the MSU football team (5-5 overall, 2-4 Big Ten) 28-24 Saturday night at Spartan Stadium.
After a number of grind-it-out offensive struggles this season, offensive fireworks were on display as the MSU football team (5-4 overall, 2-3 Big Ten) and Nebraska (6-2, 3-1) head into the halftime locker room tied at 14.
Sometimes it’s the little things that makes MSU men’s basketball coach Tom Izzo’s blood boil.
When Tom Izzo looked into the stands Friday night he saw something unusual: his mother wearing a sweatshirt with the opposing team’s colors.
It wasn’t pretty, but the MSU men’s basketball team closed out its exhibition season by knocking off St. Cloud State 62-49 in a lackluster game Friday night at Breslin Center.
It was no nonsense night for the MSU volleyball team on Friday, as they swept Iowa in three sets (25-20, 25-16, 25-18).
It’s no secret that the problem plaguing the MSU hockey team for most of the season has been an inability to score in the first two periods. But not being able to score at all, as was the case on Friday against Bowling Green, is another problem altogether.
St. Cloud State stuck around for much of the first half after hitting four 3-pointers, but the MSU men’s basketball team pulled ahead by as much as 11 to lead the Huskies 33-26 at halftime of the team’s final exhibition game.
When the likes of Mateen Cleaves, Charlie Bell, Morris Peterson and Antonio Smith graced the floor of Breslin Center, it was clear to everybody watching where they were from just by looking at them. Each one of them hailed from Flint, Mich., and they, along with the media and Spartan fan base, affectionately called the group “The Flintstones.” All have the word “Flint” tattooed on their upper arms. Many players across the spectrum of professional athletics have tattoos, and the trend seems to be trickling down to the collegiate level as well. Men’s basketball head coach Tom Izzo said it’s a fad — it’s just one that doesn’t go away. “I just wonder if all these guys that got them, what they’re going to feel like 10 years from now, because it’s still your body,” Izzo said.
The Ingham County Sheriff’s Department held a press conference today releasing more information on the search of the suspect in the shootings on I-96. Police currently are in search of the suspect involved in 25 shootings that have occurred between Oct.
Jasmine Thomas knew time was running out. After being everything from a starter to not playing by coach’s decision, Thomas has seen it all during her four years on campus, and with sophomore guard Kiana Johnson suspended and injuries to seemingly the entire roster mounting by the minute, Thomas knows that for the first time, the greatest responsibility for the MSU women’s basketball team’s success falls on her shoulders.
Even after losing two players to injuries for the season in the past week, the MSU women’s basketball team handily defeated Saginaw Valley State 74-35 on Thursday night.
Oct. 18, 2009, is a day the Langdon family always will remember.
It was Sept. 9, 1995, and Mark Dantonio stepped onto the field at Spartan Stadium for his first game in green and white as MSU’s defensive backs coach under Nick Saban.
It didn’t take more than a signature for Lansing Mayor Virg Bernero to push forward with an ambitious casino project downtown — a project still on unsound ground.
With the November elections less than a week away, several students such as biochemistry and molecular biology senior Jake Bibik still are unaware about the MSU Board of Trustees race, which could have more impact on his MSU career than he knows.
International students can rest assured knowing they have the support of MSU’s undergraduate student government.
Last week in Madison, Wis., the MSU football team showed it wasn’t ready to let its season end.
Last Tuesday, the MSU Paranormal Society arrived at Bonnie’s Place, 415 E. Saginaw St., in Lansing, to investigate possible paranormal activity.