Ann Arbor - The battle between intrastate rivals failed to measure up to last year‘s classic, as the Spartans failed to keep Saturday’s contest close against Michigan, losing 49-3.Last season, Michigan and MSU battled it out until the last play, needing every tick on the clock to decide a winner.
Smoker family statement (parents Sue and Jay and brothers, Bob and Craig): “We feel like the time has come to share some information about Jeff Smoker’s personal struggle with substance abuse.
Junior quarterback Jeff Smoker’s parents are expected to make an announcement within the hour concerning their son’s indefinite suspension from the MSU football team, according to MSU Sports Information.Smoker was suspended on Oct.
For the thousands of attendants and performers at Fake the Funk, Saturday was the culmination of months of perfecting steps, picking the right outfit and anticipation for the after party.An estimated 9,000 people attended the 12th annual show - more than double the attendance two years ago when the event was held at the Auditorium.
Dawan Moss has been dismissed from the MSU football team after Lansing police arrested the senior tailback early Sunday and charged him with his second drunken driving offense, fourth degree fleeing and eluding, and resisting and obstructing an officer. “Dawan Moss has been dismissed from the team following his arrest this weekend,” MSU head football coach Bobby Williams said in a written statement released this afternoon.
All Gina King could do was sit and watch the news from her East Lansing home and worry about her family in Virginia as a sniper terrorized the Washington, D.C., area.When the smoke settled after a three-week shooting spree, 10 people had been shot to death and three were wounded.Two suspects, John Allen Muhammad, 41, and John Lee Malvo, 17, were arrested on Oct.
Dar Williams will grace the Common Grounds Coffeehouse in the basement of Akers Hall at 6:30 p.m. Sunday. Beginning her music career on the Boston-Cambridge coffeehouse folk circuit, Williams has been turning heads for years, even though she’s never had a major label push her career to the masses.
While Jean Trice recovers from a chemotherapy treatment at her Lansing home on Saturday, Mike Weber will be running through the New York streets to raise money for her treatment.When Weber, a 2001 MSU graduate, learned his aunt was diagnosed with breast cancer in June, he decided to run the 26.2-mile New York City Marathon in her honor to raise money for the Sparrow Hospital Cancer Center.“I was thinking - it’s a little bit selfish running the marathon just for me,” Weber said.
The fact that MSU sucks at football doesn’t matter this week, as the Spartans prepare to play Michigan on Saturday.
Ann Arbor - University of Michigan alumni and students pride themselves on its presence.It’s estimated that 880,000 pounds of reinforcing steel was used in its construction.It’s almost impossible to miss the giant block “M” on the back of its scoreboard when driving down Main Street in Ann Arbor.They call it the “Big House.” And for good reason.Michigan Stadium is the largest stadium in college football with a capacity of 107,501.
There’s one group of Spartans and Wolverines who won’t be pelting each other with insults this weekend - the marching bands.
MSU Sports Information announced late Thursday that junior defensive end Greg Taplin is suspended for Saturday’s game against Michigan. Spartan head coach Bobby Williams didn’t address the media or release a statement regarding the suspension.
While we might not be conscious of life outside of football, there is a film to take attention away from the weekend’s action. From the creative mind of Flint’s Michael Moore, “Bowling for Columbine” premieres this weekend at Celebration Cinema, 200 E.
The race for the Heisman Trophy continues to keep college football fans on their toes. Any given week, a candidate can come out of nowhere and step into the forefront or stumble back into the middle of the pack.
Starting tonight, audiences will get to peek inside the evolution of a young couple’s relationship from their wedding night to old age in Bath Community Theatre Guild’s production of “The Fourposter” by Jan de Hartog. “It offers a chance to peek in on the evolution of a relationship, of a family and it’s enduring,” guild president Jeff Croff said of the 1951 play. “The Fourposter” was turned into the musical “I Do, I Do!” in 1966.
Lansing - With one hand gripping her ponytail and the other steadily by her side, Jamesha Bennett immersed her head in a large bowl of floating apples and emerged victorious with a red one sunk between her teeth on Wednesday.Bobbing for apples was just one of the many fun activities included in the annual Halloween party at the Cristo Rey Community Center, 1717 N.
A recent MSU study says undergraduate students are drinking more often on days of celebration than during the week - and some students agree.
Rivalry games are simply magical moments, and when MSU and Michigan take the field in opposition it’s no different. Saturday’s showdown in the Big House marks the 95th meeting between the Spartans (3-5 overall, 1-3 Big Ten) and the No.
Just when you think you can objectively read The State News, it once again shows its ugly partisan face (“Go Granholm” SN 10/31) and reminds you that no paper can actually be taken for its word.