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BASKETBALL

Do's and dont's

Through a roller-coaster ride of a season, the MSU men’s basketball team has found ways to win and ways to lose. They’ve shown flashes of brilliance in games against top-10 teams and floundered against cellar-dwellers. Now, with everything on the line in the NCAA Tournament, here are three things the Spartans should and should not do to better their chances for a postseason run.

BASKETBALL

Tickets in Mile High City scarce for MSU students

As Danny Kulas wandered past Bailey Hall dorm rooms selling green-and-white T-shirts stating “This is madness,” the marketing freshman could only dream about making the trip to Denver for MSU’s first-round basketball game against Temple.

MSU

Range to stay warm in winter

Michigan golfers are used to hibernating from November to late March, but the university’s golf course soon will be offering a way for locals to keep swinging during the winter.

BASEBALL

Weather could chill home opener

According to the schedule, the MSU baseball team plans to make its 2008 home debut Friday at Kobs Field. Mother Nature might have other ideas, however, as of Wednesday, weather.com is forecasting a high of 37 degrees and a chance for snow showers.

COMMENTARY

Confessions of a former war critic

As many of you can probably tell by the tone of most of my columns, I do have a political bias. Yes, I’m a Democrat. In fact, I ran for office as a Democrat almost two years ago.

NEWS

Police Brief 03/19/08

About $200 in damage was done to a gold 1998 Oldsmobile Aurora parked at University Village sometime between 2 p.m. March 11 and 7:15 p.m. Thursday, MSU police Sgt. Florene McGlothian-Taylor said.

NEWS

Line of duty

When Ryan Buckley told his mom he had joined the U.S. Navy last year, he said three words crossed her mind: Afghanistan. Iraq. War. Buckley, a second-year osteopathic medicine student and ensign in the Navy, is part of the branch’s medical corps participating in the Health Professions Scholarship Program, or HPSP.

NEWS

War veterans at MSU adjust to campus life

Arriving on campus as an 18-year-old freshman can feel unnerving at times, especially if you don’t know anyone. But arriving on campus as a freshman in your 20s — as well as coming in as a war veteran — can be isolating, some MSU veterans said.

MSU

MSU reaches out through music

Lansing resident Aaron Wade, 14, normally plays jazz on his saxophone. But when an MSU student musical group opened its show Tuesday in Lansing with a piece by classical composer Pierre Max Dubois, he was fine with it.