After seeing its Big Ten tournament hopes dashed at the hands of Iowa the past two seasons, the No. 8 MSU field hockey team will have its shot at redemption Friday when it faces the Hawkeyes in the conference tournament semifinals at Ralph Young Field.
The MSU men’s basketball team is the consensus No. 2 team in the country. The Spartans are expected to repeat as Big Ten Champions, go to their sixth Final Four in the last 12 years and are heavy favorites to make their second straight trip to the NCAA Championship game.
Every good group needs a set of leaders with a differing set of skills. In an episode of “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia,” the characters labeled one another as “The Looks,” “The Brains,” “The Muscle” and “The Wild Card” to reflect the different skills each brought to the gang’s latest escapade.
After 18 games, four season-ending injuries and a midfield unit in constant shuffle, the MSU women’s soccer team’s postseason chances likely hinge on its regular season finale against Ohio State at noon Sunday at DeMartin Stadium at Old College Field.
Lauren Hill doesn’t want to think about it. Hill, a senior forward on the MSU women’s soccer team, doesn’t even want to consider that the Spartans’ match against Ohio State at noon Sunday might not only be her last home game as a Spartan, but could possibly be the last time she wears an MSU uniform.
For a nonconference game in early November, a lot is riding on Saturday’s game between MSU and Western Michigan.
Each time I head to downtown Lansing, I pass what seems to me as the most intriguing restaurant facade in the entire city. Bright yellow bulbs light up its name with tempting sophistication.
Many critics, including Roger Ebert, praised Robert Zemeckis’ “The Polar Express” as a “perennial classic.” Others, such as Rolling Stone’s Peter Travers, described the film as a train wreck, “lifeless” and “spooky in an ‘Invasion of the Body Snatchers’ kind of way.”
It’s once again that time to guess the outcome of this weekends games with the State News prognosticators.
As a student of the Department of Geological Sciences who is in the graduate school application process, I am appalled by the proposed closure of my department by MSU Provost Kim Wilcox.
I celebrated my 22nd birthday Oct. 27. Another almost memorable night at the bar, filled with my closest friends, good music and a bit of tequila. When I awoke the following morning, I realized the truth about my birthday.
Perhaps you’re reading this editorial in class. If so, take a look around you. Notice anything different? Chances are, the room might seem a little less full.
His accent is so deeply Southern everyone knows him only as “Tennessee,” but 31-year-old Daniel “Tennessee” Berry has not been home for 11 months, and has not seen his three children for three years.
A Michigan legislator proposed a plan Wednesday to legalize same-sex marriage in the state, a day after the gay rights movement made progress locally and lost momentum nationally.
Decisions to possibly cut campus programs and departments were made with more things in mind than the potential savings of millions of dollars, university officials said.
A 58-year-old Grand Ledge woman was found unconscious Monday night outside Breslin Center and pronounced dead at Lansing’s Sparrow Hospital, MSU police Sgt. Florene McGlothian-Taylor said.
Although the East Lansing City Council had a light agenda for yesterday’s City Council meeting, council deliberated about issues regarding rental districts and taxicabs in downtown East Lansing.
Michigan’s next governor could be able to “hit the ground running” in tackling the state’s issues with the assistance of the new blog developed in part by MSU professors.
Although the MSU and Penn State football teams don’t square off until Nov. 21, Haley Pearson already has started the competition between the two schools.******
The fate of Olin Health Center and several other student health services remain unknown as officials wait for MSU Provost Kim Wilcox to announce his recommendations regarding their futures.