The worst-case scenario is now reality. Sophomore running back Javon Ringer is out for the season. During the second quarter of MSU's 23-20 loss to Illinois on Saturday, Ringer went down with an injured right knee after gaining three yards on a screen pass.
Monday Musings For the first time in more than 30 years, Notre Dame will make 5,000 season tickets available to football games starting next season. The fee for the tickets will help pay for more than $40 million in repairs to Notre Dame Stadium, as well as Charlie Weis' months of post-slap therapy. Tennessee Titans defensive tackle Albert Haynesworth was ejected from his team's game Sunday after stomping on Dallas center Andre Gurode's face. Haynesworth said he plans to appeal any suspension because, come on, Gurode's face does kind of look like a Dance Dance Revolution board. For the second straight season, only selected MSU football players will be available to the media before this Saturday's game against Michigan. Team officials said the rest of the team will be unavailable to give interviews because they'll be busy making sure no one plants any flags at Spartan Stadium.
Jason Reda's 39-yard field goal with six seconds remaining lifted Illinois to a stunning 23-20 upset against MSU on Saturday at Spartan Stadium. Despite losing senior quarterback Drew Stanton to an apparent hand injury midway through the fourth quarter, the Spartans erased a 10-point deficit to tie the score at 20 with 2:46 remaining.
If coaches were judged on how their teams perform in the first three quarters, I'd be convinced that the "L" in John L.
In late June, Michigan legislators demanded that lesser amounts of Canadian trash be brought into Michigan landfills.
MSU is looking to move on from its fourth-quarter implosion against Notre Dame, and it seems like there couldn't be a better cure for the Spartans' blues than seeing Illinois on the schedule.
Lansing — It was a giant one-sided game of tug-of-war. Their little hands held tightly to the rope Thursday morning. An instant later, the Lansing elementary students jerked the rope to make a plastic tarp cover the framework — they just made their own unheated greenhouse. The greenhouse, located behind Gunnisonville Elementary School in Lansing, is a collaboration between MSU students and the Lansing School District to grow food for low-income families. A small group of MSU students from the Residential Initiative on the Study of the Environment, or RISE, helped the energized youngsters make the greenhouse. In upcoming weeks, MSU students will help the children plant their own garden, which in part will be used to supply the Greater Lansing Food Bank's Garden Project with fresh produce. Last year, about 20 community gardens in Mid-Michigan fed about 500 Lansing-area low-income families, said food bank director Sharon Krinock.
In the past, Democratic Sen. Debbie Stabenow has voted against the building of a fence along the U.S.-Mexico border.
The preliminary examination scheduled for Wiley Graham, one of two MSU students charged in connection with an Aug.
America's youth aren't apathetic, they just need help changing the social fabric of the country, said a leading Christian commentator. Preaching social justice, Christian leader and best-selling author of "God's Politics: Why the Right Gets Wrong and the Left Doesn't Get It" Jim Wallis spoke Thursday night to about 1,100 people who packed the pews at The Peoples Church, 200 W.
After reading the State News article "Arrests up from 2004 Notre Dame game night," (SN 9/25), I had a revelation that must be too profound for the university officials and local police departments alike. After the 2004 Notre Dame game, rules for tailgating were changed.
The MSU football team added another recruit this week when defensive tackle Ryan Wheat joined the Spartans for their 2007 recruiting class. Wheat, at 6-foot-4 and 298 pounds, is listed as a three-star recruit, according to www.rivals.com. The Web site also lists Wheat as one of the Top 30 recruits from the state of Michigan.
A funny thing happened to me Saturday night on the way out of Spartan Stadium following MSU's catastrophic — though, seemingly scheduled — collapse to Notre Dame.
Illinois at MSU Noon Saturday, Spartan Stadium, ESPN Gameplan SH-Which MSU team will we see Saturday — motivated to get back on track or still shaken from the Notre Dame collapse?
MSU's Young Americans for Freedom decided to cancel "Catch an Illegal Immigrant Day." "We are altering our plans, not stopping them," said Kyle Bristow, the group's chairman.
No one wants to eat trans fat, but sometimes you just gotta have a doughnut, french fries or the many other kinds of food that probably shouldn't be deep fried.
Illinois youth against MSU experience and crowd Illinois has played 16 true freshmen this season.
UP — MOTHER NATURE There are few things better than seeing a messy, sloppy football game, and the weather cooperated last Saturday night, delivering a monsoon to Spartan Stadium.
If Drew Stanton has any recollection of last year's game against Illinois, he's probably licking his chops in anticipation of tomorrow's game.
My world was rocked the other day when I checked my e-mail. As I scanned through my inbox, I came across some disturbing news that frustrated and embittered my Spartan soul to the innermost core. The line read, "Worst of the Big Ten: Michigan State University." Say, what? A beautiful campus, increasingly difficult requirements for admittance, one of the best study abroad programs in the nation and the kind of fans that stand in the rain for four hours only to go home with a loss.