Some women spend so much time acknowledging other females’ accomplishments that they forget to recognize one of the most important women in their lives — themselves, Sarah Siewert said.
Despite growing up on a lake, underwater hockey was a foreign concept to Tricia Simon, a veterinary medicine graduate student who had plenty of experience with water sports.
For any sports team, practice is the foundation of a good performance. But when Susan Ewart started the MSU equestrian team as an undergraduate student in the early 1980s, it wasn’t unusual for the team to attend a competition without much preparation.
Even ESPN is bewildered by the NCAA selection committee’s picks for the NCAA Tournament. Actually, I think everyone except those faithful to Florida State and Auburn believes the MSU women’s basketball team got pushed under the rug.
College is a whole new world for many freshmen traveling campus for the first time. The State News sat down with one of these brave explorers to get a glimpse, in 15 questions or less, at a new face on campus and his perspective on his new frontier.
Like father, like son. The MSU football team received another verbal commitment for the 2009 recruiting class Sunday, landing East Lansing High School junior Blake Treadwell, according to Scout.com.
When Josh Higginson watched “Back to the Future” for the first time and saw Michael J. Fox riding a skateboard, he knew he had to try it. “There’s a scene at the beginning where Michael J. Fox is being towed behind a truck and that was the coolest thing I’d ever seen,” Higginson said.
Sparty will be on the cover of “NCAA Football 09” for the Nintendo Wii after a close competition, EA Sports announced Tuesday.
While the thought of wrestling for a national championship in front of 22,000 people may put added pressure on some individuals, it hasn’t affected sophomore wrestler Franklin Gomez.
Will Steger moved from Minnesota three years ago to dedicate his time to raising global warming awareness.
Gary Hoppenstand grew up reading comic books and novels just like any other kid — but instead of simply enjoying the stories, he wanted to know why people cared about them.
College is a whole new world for many freshmen traveling campus for the first time. The State News sat down with one of these brave explorers to get a glimpse, in 15 questions or less, at a new face on campus and his perspective on his new frontier.
I wanted to take a minute to say thanks to Drew Neitzel for proving me wrong and playing absolutely great in the Big Ten Tournament. His passes were sharp and his shot was true, but most importantly he played with a relaxed confidence not seen all year.
This in response to the music review by Matt Flint titled From the vault: ‘Sublime’ shouldn’t stand test of time (SN 3/17).
Fun stuff is happening in the nation’s highest court. On Tuesday, the U.S. Supreme Court heard its first Second Amendment case in about 70 years. The nine justices will decide whether a Washington, D.C., handgun ban currently in effect is constitutional. Or, simply put, whether ordinary citizens have the right to keep a handgun in their home.
Well, well, well. Now the Democrats might need Michigan’s help. Our state and Florida — the only states punished by the Democratic National Committee for holding primaries before Feb. 5 — could be the tiebreaker for the now closely matched Democratic contenders, Sens. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., and Barack Obama, D-Ill.
A 42-year-old MSU student was found dead Friday in his Spartan Village apartment from what a relative called “an accidental death from medication.”
A semi-tractor trailer overturned on U.S. 127 at about 3 p.m. Tuesday, causing two additional accidents that could be related. No serious injuries have been reported, East Lansing police Lt. Kevin Daley said. The trailer was heading northbound near Trowbridge Road and overturned into the embankment.
MSU Trustee Faylene Owen doesn’t remember every “get well” phone call she’s received, but she said one in particular stood out. Owen had hurt her ankle while attending a fundraising event for former President Bill Clinton’s 1996 presidential campaign, she said. It was serious enough that she was taken to the hospital.
“Out of business” signs and empty sidewalks characterize the stretch of Michigan Avenue from the Frandor Plus Shopping Center to Lansing’s Sparrow Hospital. Now, after years of decay, regional leaders said they are hoping to revamp the struggling area.