On Tuesday, California, Florida and Arizona voted for proposals banning gay marriage. In Arkansas, voters decided to ban unmarried couples from being allowed to adopt children. These results are a shocking affront to both natural and constitutional human rights as well as a bigoted marginalization of a significant portion of the country’s population.
Columbus — All four goals in Saturday night’s game between the MSU hockey team and Ohio State came in the third period.
With an ugly 21-7 win Saturday over Purdue, the Spartans are sitting pretty for a chance at a Big Ten championship. A stingy defense that held Purdue to 191 total yards and gave the Spartans offense superb field position on two touchdown drives propelled MSU to a win on Senior Day at Spartan Stadium.
There’s something to be said for effort when you’re playing the top team in the land.
Columbus — Coming into Friday’s game against Ohio State, the MSU hockey team’s opponents were averaging 29.4 shots a game.
After Thursday’s 97-32 drubbing at the hands of the MSU women’s basketball team, Saginaw Valley State’s athletic trainer had better have some extra ice packs prepared for the night’s ride home.
New York-based singer and songwriter Meghan Andrews will be performing her original music tonight at Magdalena’s Tea House, 2006 E. Michigan Ave., in Lansing.
A 19-year-old student was sent to Lansing’s Sparrow Hospital Wednesday after he rode his bike into a vehicle on North Shaw Lane, MSU police Sgt. Florene McGlothian-Taylor said.
They were everywhere on campus. In the final weeks leading up to the election, avoiding somebody decked out in Barack Obama apparel was about as easy as finding an on-campus parking spot. Voter registration tables crowded the area by the Wells Hall bridge, forming a swarming blanket of politically active students that turned the grass underneath their feet brown just by standing there for so long.
On a warm November evening last week, senior offensive linemen Jesse Miller and Roland Martin were enjoying one of their last off days as MSU football players. The two most experienced and decorated MSU offensive linemen were at Ralph Young Field, experimenting with their most recent purchase — remote control cars.
Purdue head coach Joe Tiller probably didn’t imagine going out like this. In his last season at the helm, the Boilermakers are at risk of missing out on postseason play for just the second time in Tiller’s 12-year career.
Purdue head coach Joe Tiller is considered the father of the spread offense in the Big Ten, as he brought the pass-happy offense to West Lafayette, Ind., in 1997.
The dried blood on the inside of senior linebacker Ryan Allison’s helmet tells the story of his evolution the past six months.
When senior guard Mike Bacon arrived at MSU in 2004 as a preferred walk-on from Lansing, he looked more like a hockey defenseman than an offensive lineman.
In their four or five years at MSU, the Spartans football seniors have gone through more ups-and-downs than an elevator.
Despite tough times for pizza businesses, Toppers Pizza has mounted the dough and plans to open its first Michigan location in December at 1219 E. Grand River Ave.
Patients at the Sparrow Regional Children’s Center will receive a visit from members of the U.S. Olympic gymnastics team at 1 p.m. today.
It could have been worse. Although the Republican Party lost the presidency to President-elect Barack Obama and the Democratic Party gained significant leads in the Senate and House of Representatives, experts said the Republican Party fared better than expected.
When the Environmental Protection Agency says “get the lead out,” they mean it. A little more than two weeks ago, the EPA cut the amount of lead emissions allowed in the air by 90 percent, from 1.5 micrograms per cubic meter of air (ug/m3) to .15 ug/m3, according to a statement from the EPA.