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MSU varsity sports to be on FOX cable channel in 2007

Justin Kroll
August 14, 2006

A new deal between Big Ten universities and ABC and its affiliates could not only bring more financial help to schools like MSU, but exposure as well. The deal, announced June 21, would extend coverage of men's football and basketball, women's basketball and volleyball to ESPN and ABC sports for another 10 years. It would also establish a cable-only Big Ten Channel carried by Fox. The partnership begins in 2007 and will bring an additional $7.5 million to each university in the conference. It sets the number of games being shown each year to include more than 40 football games on ABC and ESPN, nearly 60 basketball games on ESPN, ESPN 2 and ESPNU and about 110 Big Ten events on ABC and ESPN annually. Athletics Director Ron Mason said he is excited by the attention the deal could bring MSU. "The university will become a major part of this deal because of all the exposure we will be receiving," Mason said.

NEWS

U-M, MSU rivalry began in 1800s

Bob Darrow
August 14, 2006

When John Macklin was named head football coach and athletic director of Michigan Agricultural College in 1911, he inherited a fledgling football program plagued by low attendance at a school where enrollment just slightly topped 1,700. Macklin led the M.A.C.

FEATURES

Happenings

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NEWS

Home on the farm

Amy Oprean
August 11, 2006

As the temperature rose above 90 degrees in the milking barn at the MSU Dairy Cattle Teaching and Research Center on Aug.

MICHIGAN

Local airport calm despite terrorist threat

Justin Kroll
August 11, 2006

There were no delays and the atmosphere remained calm at Capital City Airport on Thursday despite heightened security due to an attempted terrorist plot. British authorities arrested 24 people after they were tipped off about a plan to blow up at least 10 planes leaving for the U.S.

MSU

Bikes for sale

Abandoned bicycles cluttering campus during the year have been moved out and will go on sale today.

MICHIGAN

Traffic stop yields terror arrest of 2 Mich. men

Lindsey Poisson
August 11, 2006

Two 20-year-old college students from Dearborn were arrested and charged Wednesday with money laundering and procuring items with the intent to use them in terrorist acts. Local authorities stopped Osama Sabhi Abulhassan and Ali Houssaiky for a traffic violation in Marietta, Ohio, when the deputies found flight information, $11,000 in cash and 12 phones in their car, according to an Associated Press report. A map showing Wal-Mart locations in Kentucky, Tennessee and North and South Carolina were also found.

FEATURES

WEB EXTRA: Apple delivers dynamite show in Detroit

Ryan Mccormick
August 11, 2006

It got real quite fast watching Fiona Apple repeatedly scream "This is not about love," while she flailed her body around like a helicopter seed in a tornado. Not since the tragic death of Kurt Cobain and the demise of Nirvana has there been as much passion on the mainstream stage.

FEATURES

Creole show surreal

Ryan Mccormick
August 10, 2006

Lansing — Sitting alone in an art gallery of strangers, the photographer and a couple of scattered friends, I prayed Creole Gallery's Meegan Holland wouldn't embarrass me in front of these supposedly hip cats.

MICHIGAN

CATA invests in energy-efficient buses

Mara Deutch
August 10, 2006

After 10 years of working toward improving the environment, the Capitol Area Transportation Authority, or CATA, furthered its goal by purchasing three diesel, hybrid electric buses. The buses, which are the first of their kind to be used in the state of Michigan, will create less emissions than other CATA buses and provide a smoother ride for customers, said Sandy Draggoo, executive director and CEO of CATA. CATA plans to begin building the buses into their regular routes as soon as Aug.

MSU

Vaccine in low supply as school year approaches

Meningitis vaccine recommendations from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, or CDC, have led to a low supply of Menactra, the most efficient vaccine for the disease. "There is technically a shortage of the vaccine," said Donna Cary, spokeswoman for Sanofi Pasteur, the company that makes the drug.

FEATURES

Folk festival to focus on Louisiana culture

Erik Adams
August 10, 2006

To some, the words "folk music" bring to mind acoustic guitars, protest singers, flowing dresses, peace signs and other images repeated ad nauseam in documentaries about the 1960s. According to Lora Helou, the communications director for the Great Lakes Folk Festival, these things are elements of folk, but the term actually applies to a much wider scope of music.

COMMENTARY

Classroom needs innovation

I stumbled last week into two of the more interesting conversations I've had on education. With the school year beginning and debate revving over President Bush's No Child Left Behind Act, these talks struck me as getting down to the rub about our future.

NEWS

Making room

Kathleen Polesnak
August 10, 2006

Hundreds of students will still spend the beginning of the semester in overbooked dorm rooms, despite a sharp decrease in the number of available single rooms. There are 420 transitional rooms so far this year — three students living in a space that is designed for two — as compared to about 650 last year.