To spice up the game of volleyball, the NCAA added another rule to the sport this year.The position “libero” was added to increase the level of passing and defense.
Stanley Bieker grinned as he pulled on his striped helmet and adjusted the duct tape on the handlebars of his pale yellow bike.“This will be my 32nd year doing this,” the 63-year-old Greenville resident said Wednesday morning as he prepared his bike for the “Dick Allen Lansing to Mackinaw” tour.
After winning the first Big Ten title in team history last season, the women’s field hockey team has a tough road ahead of them - but they’re ready. Eight starters and 14 letter-winners return to a squad that last year compiled a 16-6 overall record and advanced to the Elite Eight of the NCAA Tournament before being ousted by Michigan in a 2-1 overtime loss. The team kicks off its season Saturday by visiting the nine-time National Champion Old Dominion Lady Monarchs, and is anxious to take on the task. The Monarchs are favored to win their seventh consecutive national championship, despite the loss of 2001 Colonial Athletic Association Player of the Year Adrienne Yoder to graduation. “To have a strong opponent right away is fun, that’s what we train for all summer,” head coach Michele Madison said.
No-preference freshman Erin Blacha is looking forward to her first football game as a Spartan.“I’m supposed to go tailgating with some friends,” she said.
As the minor-league baseball regular season comes to a close, the Lansing Lugnuts have secured themselves a spot in the playoffs - the only question is who’ll they play.If Lansing finishes at the top of it’s Eastern Division of the Midwest League, it will face off Sept.
As far as fans might be concerned, Major League Baseball players are running out of strikes. If the sluggers walk out on their jobs Friday, it could mean more Americans turn their backs on their favorite pastime. It’s no secret baseball hasn’t occupied the same place in American hearts as it did prior to the league’s strike in 1994, when sluggers and fans missed 920 games including the World Series. Since 1972, work has halted at America’s ballparks eight times.
I tried to leave, I really did. I wanted to find a job, now that I’m done with school, but it hasn’t worked out.
Lansing - Six-year-old Madelyn Panganis wiped cake and ice cream off her face as she squinted into the evening sunlight. “I love cake,” the Wiliamston Discovery Elementary first-grader proclaimed.
Immigration officials reconsidered a decision Monday to cut off enrollment for part-time Canadian and Mexican students attending U.S.
Although it has been nearly a year since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, we should not and cannot forget what happened. More than 3,000 people died that day.
After years of inconsistency between the NCAA and its football conferences, the NCAA record books will recognize players’ statistics in bowl games. Sean Straziscar, assistant director for statistics for the NCAA, said starting this year football’s record keeping methods will be the same as other sports. “Football was the only sport that we did not count postseason statistics up until now,” he said.
Football crowds and greek pledges will keep East Lansing buzzing next month, and city officials are hopeful an alcohol and drug awareness campaign will curb drinking and drug abuse in the MSU party scene.The East Lansing City Council voted last week to observe September as National Alcohol and Drug Addiction Recovery Month.
It’s that time of the year again when music’s best performers come in swingin’ to win the coveted moon man. The 2002 MTV Video Music Awards will bring many popular music acts under one roof today, with performances by Bruce Springsteen, Ja Rule and the distressing solo debut of “‘Nstink’s” Justin Timberlake. This year’s show is hosted by Jimmy Fallon, who must have done a good job co-hosting with Kirsten Dunst during last year’s movie awards, because MTV decided he could tackle the job alone.
Trailing by 13 points in the latest EPIC/MRA poll, Lt. Gov. Dick Posthumus has gone on the offensive in his bid to become the state’s next governor.In the campaign’s first political advertisement since his victory in the August primary election, Posthumus attacks Attorney General Jennifer Granholm’s stance on a proposal passed in 1994 that increased state sales taxes while reducing property taxes.
About a dozen dead crows have been spotted around campus in recent weeks, a sign that the West Nile virus has reached MSU, university officials said Wednesday. “Dead crows are a signal that the virus is here,” said Ned Walker, an associate professor of microbiology and entomology and MSU’s mosquito expert.
Friday • The University Activities Board presents movies at Wells Hall. “Rush Hour 2” is showing at 7 p.m.
One would assume that Matt Migliaccio and Justin Tobe would be feeling a little pressure now that the unenviable task of replacing Ryan Miller has officially begun. After all, Miller was one of the most prolific goaltenders in college hockey history before signing with the Buffalo Sabres on Monday.
MSU’s undergraduate student government voted 10-2 Tuesday night to hold a referendum to give the Interfraternity and National Panhellenic councils a vote on Academic Assembly.
A smaller but upgraded center will replace the Lansing Stake Center of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints after it burned down in June.The center is replacing the 40-year-old, 27,000 square-foot church, 431 E.