Will Whelton was already deep into his research as the sound of holiday bells rang through the crowd of about 150 still entering the chili cook-off inside the Marriott at University Place on Sunday afternoon. He had finished nine of the 12 chili varieties, shuffling his judge's clipboard and chili bowls to grade each on a 10-point scale.
Four hundred years from now, human beings still resort to violence to solve their problems, but they polish off people wearing snazzy clothes.
Bowling Green, Ohio — After breaking an eight-game winless streak Friday with a 3-0 win over Bowling Green, the MSU hockey team was outhustled and outplayed Saturday night as the Falcons salvaged a split with a 4-2 win at BGSU Ice Arena. MSU (6-7-4 overall, 3-5-3 CCHA) was without the services of junior captain Drew Miller (shoulder) and senior defenseman Jared Nightingale (sick), forcing MSU head coach Rick Comley into some lineup changes.
Tickets for the Spartan Clash still are available online at www.Palacenet.com, the Palace Box Office and through Ticketmaster.
• Calling the Bowl Championship Series "deeply flawed," the chairman of a congressional committee has called a hearing on the controversial system used to determine college football's national champion. Finally, our elected officials have their priorities straight.
I think we need to talk a bit about language. It's important, you see, to examine the language we use in our daily lives.
Dear Santa, I'm one big unhappy kid. This year in sports has had too many downs to feel good about anything.
It's seven games into the season and the men's basketball team still seems to be sleepwalking through its games against weaker opponents, relying on talent instead of hard work and discipline. The No.
With rumblings that his job might be in jeopardy after a second consecutive losing season, MSU head coach John L.
A heated debate on and off campus has begun surrounding the Michigan Civil Rights Initiative, or MCRI, since it was announced it will appear on the November 2006 ballot.
Grand Rapids - The No. 13 MSU men's basketball team's struggles continued again Saturday as they narrowly defeated Arkansas-Little Rock 72-67 on Saturday at Van Andel Arena.
As an MSU graduate with a minor in English and history, I have come to critically respect much of the content in The State News during the years I have attended MSU and since my graduation. However, I do not support its inclusion of outside advertising without standards.
In response to Ken Osborne's column "Conservative mantra of support often hypocritical, irresponsible" (SN 11/30), Osborne poses the question, "Where is the uranium needed to build nuclear weapons?" Apparently, he must have missed the article in The New York Times on May 22, 2004, which made mention of 500 tons of yellowcake and low-enriched uranium that had been discovered by the U.S.
Marsha Rappley has been spending a lot of time in her car. She's learned that for the dean of MSU's College of Human Medicine, it comes with the territory. "I'm on the road quite a lot — that's part of my job," said Rappley, who was named acting dean of the college in September. At least once a week, she makes a trip to Flint, Saginaw, Kalamazoo or Marquette, in the Upper Peninsula. Those locations, along with East Lansing, are home to five of the school's campuses across the state. On Nov.
I share The State News' concerns about the independent commission and other officials' failure to focus on the police errors in the April 2-3 disturbances.
High expectations from the media and tremendous hype from fans surrounded Marquise Gray's arrival at MSU.
Having gone 0-5-3 in the past eight games, the MSU hockey team is in dire need of a sweep as the Spartans play Bowling Green in a home-and-home series starting tonight. The winless streak is MSU's longest since the 1980-81 season.
When the independent commission reviewing the April 2-3 disturbances was created, it was viewed as a victory for the student body. Finally. Questions were going to be answered.
Good news for soldiers fighting the war on terror: President George W. Bush has a plan for "victory" in Iraq. This strikes me as an odd move considering the president himself declared the Iraq "Mission Accomplished" on the flight deck of the USS Abraham Lincoln on May 1, 2003.