The 2010 World Cup in South Africa pushed soccer back into the mainstream light, and college students especially began to watch soccer with extreme passion. Their passion doesn’t have to stop with the World Cup, as MSU’s soccer team’s are worth watching as well.
Freshman goalkeeper Molly Cassidy was named the Big Ten Freshman of the Week and Defensive Player of the Week, the conference announced Monday.
MSU hockey head coach Rick Comley announced Tuesday that sophomore defenseman Torey Krug will be the team’s captain this season. Krug will be the second sophomore to receive the honor.
Season tickets for the 2010-11 MSU hockey season will go on sale to the public on Sept. 15, MSU announced Tuesday.
Sanchez, a budding vocalist and guitarist, has since moved into Lansing-area performance venues, flexing his vocal muscles and gaining fans as he goes.
Thousands of posters, prints and other wall decor from the Beyond the Wall Poster Sale will be available from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. through Thursday in Parlor C on the second floor of the Union.
The Ingham County Animal Control & Shelter will hold an orientation meeting for all new volunteers at 6 p.m. Wednesday at the shelter, 600 Curtis St., in Mason.
The Mackerel Sky Gallery of Contemporary Craft, 211 M.A.C. Ave., will feature the exhibit “Leaping into the Third Decade.”
MSU professors of jazz studies will be performing alongside alumnus and New Orleans musician Henry Butler at 7:30 p.m. Sept. 1 in Wharton Center’s Pasant Theatre.
From kindergarten to high school, MSU exchange student Ju Ran Park from Seoul, South Korea attended competitive private schools, and is now discovering the differences between her hometown and her new MSU campus.
While listening to a program about the overturning of California’s Proposition 8 on National Public Radio the other day, a caller brought up a point that has been on my mind for some time, and perhaps is the most important part of the whole debate over gay marriage.
For more than 15 years, MSU Trustee Donald Nugent has driven three and a half hours almost every month to attend MSU Board of Trustees meetings. Nugent’s term comes to an end in January 2011, and although he has served two consecutive terms and submitted his bid for re-election, Nugent no longer will serve MSU as a trustee starting next year.
Junior guard Korie Lucious was arrested early Monday morning for operating a motor vehicle while intoxicated, according to records from East Lansing’s 54-B District Court.
In addition to competing against the steaming temperatures at Ralph Young Field, the No. 7 MSU field hockey team challenged the No. 10 Duke Blue Devils in an afternoon game where endurance would determine the winner. The Spartans’ stamina was strong enough to shut out Duke 1-0 and win the Champions Invitational Tournament.
After three games last season, the MSU women’s soccer team had scored eight goals. In 2010, through the same amount of games, the team has tallied just two. The team’s second goal came in their home opener on Sunday against Western Michigan (1-2), a game the Spartans won 1-0, but left head coach Tom Saxton confused.
Taking advantage of its versatile depth and talent, head coach Cathy George and junior outside hitter Jenilee Rathje led the MSU volleyball team through a challenging weekend of success. The Spartans (3-0) continued their play in the MSU Showcase prevailing over IUPUI 3-0 on Saturday and then beating Evansville later that night 3-0.
Former MSU athletes took the two Republican nominations for the MSU Board of Trustee over incumbent Don Nugent at the Michigan Republican Party convention, held Saturday at Breslin Center. Nugent’s term expires January 2011, and despite his two terms on the Board of Trustees and his bid for reelection, he will not appear on the November general ballot.
Under clear blue skies and summer temperatures in the low 80s, the MSU field hockey team opened its season with a 4-2 win over Central Michigan on Saturday afternoon at Ralph Young Field.
The East Lansing Fire Department responded to an apparent arson after a couch and a car caught fire near a dumpster behind the former Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity house.
In its season-opening match on Friday, the MSU women’s volleyball team towered over the Bowling Green Falcons and helped head coach Cathy George achieve her 450th career win in the process. The Spartans controlled the pace of the match throughout each set and won 3-0 in the opening match of the MSU Showcase.