Remember when you joked that the MSU men’s basketball would go 18-0 in the Big Ten? Remember when a little part of you actually thought the Spartans could go 18-0? Welcome back to reality. MSU’s 78-73 loss at Illinois on Saturday has slimmed MSU’s lead in the Big Ten to just one game with No. 8 Purdue coming into East Lansing.
Following a four-game stretch in which its defense was superb, the MSU women’s basketball team couldn’t get stops when it mattered most Sunday, falling 77-66 to Iowa at Carver-Hawkeye Arena in Iowa City, Iowa. The loss snaps MSU’s four-game winning streak.
The MSU wrestling team has been searching for a consistent effort throughout its entire lineup. The Spartans got it Sunday in a 20-13 upset of No. 24 Purdue that was highlighted by close matches and several dramatic finishes.
The Kresge Art Center invited the MSU community to make homemade Valentine’s Day cards last Saturday.
The eighth annual Mid-Winter Singing Festival, held Friday and Saturday at the Hannah Community Center, 819 Abbot Road, emphasized the importance of singing to a community and featured several venues for residents to sing as a community.
The editorial “Moving beyond coal good idea, too costly” (SN 2/3) raises a very important point. We must consider the true cost of burning coal to Spartans and the state of Michigan. Moving away from coal is not only something that is good for the environment and public health, it’s something that we have to start doing right now for our pocketbooks as well.
A famous quote from author Nancy R. Smith has made its way around the world, allowing people to explore the gender roles that society has embedded into our everyday lifestyles and thoughts:
Promises aren’t made to be broken, and Gov. Jennifer Granholm apparently would like to make sure the Michigan Promise Scholarship doesn’t go down in history as one of her broken guarantees.
Champaign, Ill. — The MSU men’s basketball team couldn’t mount enough of a comeback against Illinois on Saturday night, falling 78-73 to the Illini in Champaign, Ill.
Friends and family remembered engineering freshman Mark Reedy, 18, of Bloomfield Hills, this weekend after he was killed Friday afternoon in a car accident. Reedy and a friend were driving in central Indiana when their car slid on ice and collided with a truck, police said.
Researchers see an expansion in stem cell research and recognize the benefits more research could bring to the state and the university.
Ever since losing three straight, the MSU women’s basketball team has rededicated itself to its defense. That commitment has paid off in spades for the Spartans to the tune of four straight wins, none more impressive than Thursday’s 65-44 rout of Penn State at Breslin Center. The Spartans not only avenged a prior loss to the Lady Lions but held them to a season low on the offensive end.
A 37-year-old female reported her car stolen on MSU’s campus in Detroit on Sunday, MSU police Sgt. Florene McGlothian-Taylor said.
Faculty members from the Department of Advertising, Public Relations and Retailing are grading the best and worst of the commercials during Super Bowl XLIV on Sunday.
The East Lansing Public Library, 950 Abbot Road, will be closed today for a staff furlough.
The East Lansing City Council will begin budget brainstorming Saturday during its weekend retreat as the city faces a deficit that is expected to exceed the current fiscal year’s almost $2 million shortfall.
Michigan voters will be offered the opportunity to overturn the Michigan constitution in November’s election.
Blood pressure, temperature and a two-question survey screening for depression soon will become part of a routine checkup for students seeking treatment at Olin Health Center.
By the year 2100, the globe is at risk to lose 40 percent of the animal population to extinction, according to Terry Root.
The MSU men’s basketball team is hoping rapper Drake wasn’t a prophet in “Forever” when he said, “Like a sprained ankle, boy, I ain’t nothing to play with.”