MSU's pass defense was no longer a weakness. The Spartans' sturdy secondary was all over the field, knocking down passes and laying out receivers. Then, MSU played Iowa and allowed its quarterback to throw for a career-high 340 yards. Iowa quarterback Drew Tate had a heck of a day and MSU's defensive backs did little to stop it. "We couldn't cover their guys," MSU head coach John L.
Paul Bremer, former U.S. ambassador to Iraq, deserves to be protested. He was a key figurehead of an unjust, or at least questionable, war.
Robert Reich fired up a small group of John Kerry supporters outside Beaumont Tower Thursday. Reich, who served as secretary of labor under former president Bill Clinton, told about 25 people why he endorses the Democratic presidential candidate. "I have known John Kerry for 25 years, and I know he will make a terrific president," Reich said.
Oscar, a downtrodden fish who works at a whale wash, starts off as a nobody. But when a great white shark with ties to the mafia turns up dead and Oscar (Will Smith) is standing over the body, he becomes an instant celebrity.
Spartans junior Ian Clutten will swim at Conseco Fieldhouse in Indianapolis, at the 2004 Federation Internationale de Natation (FINA) Short Course World Championship. Representing South Africa, Clutten will compete Oct.
How do you define truth? Do you define it as what someone says on TV, or what you see on the Internet?
LaJoya Johnson said lesbian, bisexual, gay and transgender students who are racial and ethnic minorities needed a voice - so she spoke up. Johnson, an interdisciplinary studies in social science junior, recently created the MSU LBGT Students of Color Scholarship in June 2004.
An MSU student accused of raping a fellow hallmate will face his alleged victim in court today. Travis Eichten, a marketing freshman, could spend up to 15 years in jail for third degree sexual assault.
Football can be a primitive, barbaric game and players often call on a warrior mentality to play with punishing ferocity.
While the MSU football team battles the Fighting Illini at home this weekend, the MSU volleyball team (6-7 overall, 1-4 Big Ten) will have a showdown of its own 8 p.m.
The MSU women's soccer team is hitting the road for a four-game road stretch. The first stop for the Spartans is Indiana, where they will face off against Indiana (7-3-1 overall, 2-2-1 Big Ten) today and Purdue (6-5, 2-3 Big Ten) on Sunday.
Old legislation creating a technology-job hot spot in Lansing and East Lansing received new life when Gov.
ASMSU leaders are urging students to show up and make recommendations for safe tailgating at town hall meetings next week. MSU's undergraduate student government will answer questions concerning recent tailgating restrictions at 7 p.m.
The beauty of managing the opinion page in a daily newspaper lies in its simplicity. The opinion writer and I, we are a different breed of newspapermen.
MSU President M. Peter McPherson was appointed Monday to head a national study abroad commission that will grant scholarships and aim to increase participation in study abroad programs at universities across the country. McPherson said the appointment, which was bipartisanly supported by members of the U.S.
"The Mother" is a film dependent on its characters. There's no driving plot and no concrete goals - the film is merely the slow look into the lives of a dysfunctional family living in London. Director Roger Michell takes his time in this 2003 British film that explores the hidden personalities lurking inside our mothers. When we first meet May (Anne Reid), she's a dowdy woman whose gray hair is thinly masked with a sandy brown tint and whose outfits generally are in hues of seafoam green.
Two masked men held up a Poppa Leo's Pizza employee at gunpoint Wednesday evening, East Lansing police officers said. It was the area's third armed or strong-armed robbery in one week. The two men, one armed with a rifle, entered Poppa Leo's Pizza, 515 W.
After a week of intense practices, the MSU hockey team will finally hit the ice to open the 2004-05 season with a pair of exhibition games this weekend at Munn Ice Arena. "We want to get the team going," junior forward David Booth said.
Junior receiver Aaron Alexander stretched out his 6-foot-5 frame to grab a ball in the corner of the end zone last year against Illinois.
No. 13 Minnesota vs. No. 14 Michigan It will be a battle for Big Ten supremacy at Michigan Stadium on Saturday afternoon when the Minnesota Golden Gophers (5-0 overall, 2-0 Big Ten) travel to Ann Arbor to battle the Michigan Wolverines (4-1, 2-0). Minnesota is coming off a 16-7 win over Penn State in which running back Laurence Maroney rushed for 144 yards on 25 carries with one touchdown.