Columbus, Ohio — For the second straight year, the LIU Brooklyn men’s basketball team enters the NCAA Tournament as an underdog facing high-ranked teams.
In high school, while sitting in foods class, MSU alumna Lauren Long found out about an opening at a bridal salon called the Wedding Bell. She jumped at the chance to take the job, and she’s been consulting brides ever since. “It’s always a happy time for people, and I think that feeling is contagious,” said Long, an Okemos resident.
ASMSU passed a bill Thursday night in support of extending the Main Library’s hours during the weekends to allow students more study time.
The East Lansing City Council is again discussing potential budget issues that could cut police and fire services, which might hurt the departments’ ability to deal with large events, such as future March Madness celebrations. During their Tuesday night work session at City Hall, 410 Abbot Road, council members discussed removing eight full-time police positions, including five patrol officers, two detectives and one school officer to maintain a lower budget in the 2013-14 fiscal year.
In his spare time, Kirk Goldsberry is trying to innovate the way people think about basketball shooting.
A new smartphone application named Capsule is getting some attention among young adults because of its innovative way of party planning and sharing. The app launched Jan. 19 and provides users with a way to invite specific friends to an event without having it publicly displayed on Facebook or other social media sites. A specific phone number and email address is selected for the Capsule group so personal information can be anonymous.
Police forces in the city will be out in higher numbers this weekend in anticipation of warmer weather, basketball and St. Patrick’s Day celebrations.
Rather than spending St. Patrick’s Day covering her surroundings in green and shamrocks, political science and pre-law junior Bridget Sheehan grew up viewing the holiday as a time for church and to celebrate with family over a home-cooked meal of shepherd’s pie and corned beef and cabbage.
Inquisitive audience members will have the chance to help debunk myths with two of TV’s most well-known scientific sleuths this weekend. Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman, co-hosts of the Discovery Channel series “MythBusters,” a program in which science and experimentation are used to prove or disprove urban myths, will bring their live show, “MythBusters: Behind the Myths” to Wharton Center and allow fans to join them as investigators for a day. The show will take place at 3 p.m.
It is almost the weekend. Classes are ending and students are ready to unwind. Here is a roundup of events to attend during the weekend respite. Dia de la Mujer Let’s get the more serious one out of the way first.
It is almost the weekend. Classes are ending and students are ready to unwind. Here is a roundup of events to attend during the weekend respite. Dia de la Mujer Let’s get the more serious one out of the way first.
It’s not every day you see cows grazing at the rock on Farm Lane.
Inside the original Biggby Coffee location on Thursday afternoon, a long line snaked through the building as MSU students and community members celebrated the chain’s 17th anniversary.
For some East Lansing bars and restaurants, Saturday won’t be business as usual.
The madness has arrived. This weekend, the No. 10-seed MSU women’s basketball team (20-11) will open the first round of the NCAA Tournament against No. 7-seed Louisville (22-9) on Saturday (1:45 p.m., ESPN2) in College Park, Md.
Brandon Wood hasn’t always had it this good. Now a senior guard with the MSU men’s basketball team, it wasn’t long ago that Wood was playing at mid-major schools and community colleges.
For graduate student Tingli “Chilly” Cai, seeing a mixture of faces from all cultural backgrounds on Thursday evening made him feel at home.
As 15 former Spartans worked out before 52 NFL representatives to prove their worth in the upcoming NFL Draft at MSU’s Pro Day on Wednesday, they also helped to prove the worth of MSU football.
The Residence Halls Association, or RHA, elected another student to its leadership ranks Wednesday night, as the group begins to build its executive board for the 2012-13 year.
When looking at the MSU softball team’s record (7-15) the initial impulse is to assume the team isn’t very good. But the Spartans have gone through a grueling preseason that head coach Jacquie Joseph touts as the toughest in the country and said, as a result, the team’s record is deceiving.