The third day of action at the Big Ten Tournament saw both highs and lows for the MSU baseball team. With one loss already under their belts, the No.
An MSU student who was a passenger in former MSU basketball standout Jason Richardson’s sport utility vehicle when it was shot early Thursday said the NBA star and his friends will now have to watch their backs. Richardson’s 2002 Cadillac Escalade was shot at least three times about 2:37 a.m.
Lansing theater offers swingin’ good time Get out and enjoy the Boarshead Theater’s “Ain’t Misbehavin’,” a musical look into the world of jazz. The musical, written by Murray Horwitz, is the conclusion to the Boarshead season. “Ain’t Misbehavin’” starts at 7 p.m.
Facing elimination, the MSU baseball team scored in each of the first six innings Thursday, including a seven-run third to extend its season. In a slugfest, the Spartans (37-18) defeated Iowa 13-9 in day two of the Big Ten Tournament at Siebert Field in Minneapolis. MSU manager Ted Mahan said weather, more than bad pitching, contributed to the high scoring affair. “The weather was conducive today,” he said.
After a four-game road series against the Kane County Cougars, the Lansing Lugnuts will return home for 12 consecutive contests. The Lugnuts took two of the first three games of the series from the Cougars before falling 5-4 Tuesday at Elfstrom Stadium in Geneva, Ill.
To the distress of some area businesses, the East Lansing City Council will hike up parking prices to balance its newly adopted $49.95 million budget. The increase in parking fees was part of the 2003 budget the council passed Tuesday night. Stan Blanchard, manager of Chicken Heads, 543 E.
Police will be watching Michigan residents to ensure they are wearing their seat belts this holiday weekend.“If you don’t want a ticket, wear your seat belts,” MSU police Sgt.
If this week’s column seems more a memoir than usual, forgive me; I promise it gains relevance toward the end. I was raised about 20 miles north of here, in St.
Minority recruitment efforts for faculty and students have been highly publicized in recent years, but another area of university life hasn’t seen as much press, racial inequality in athletics. A symposium organized by MSU athletics director Clarence Underwood at Kellogg Center this week aimed to begin to correct that.
Friday DTE Energy Music Theatre presents Eddie Money at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are on sale now.
After round one at the NCAA Women’s Golf National Championships on Tuesday, MSU was tied for 19th with a score of 305 - 20 strokes off the pace of tournament-leading Arizona. Sophomore Sarah Martin shot the lowest score of the day for the Spartans with a 2-over par 74, a personal best for the championships and a season-best for 18 holes.
On Monday, thousands of veterans across America will bow their heads in silence. The only sound will be the bugles in the background; tears swelling as “Taps” echoes among monuments of granite. But for a younger generation, Memorial Day means something very different.
The women’s crew team secured a team bid to the 2002 NCAA Women’s Rowing Championships from May 31-June 2 at Eagle Creek Reservoir in Indianapolis. The bid marks the third time in the program’s five-year history as a varsity sport that the entire team will make the trip to nationals.
The frustration of having to follow permanent speed limits through highway construction zones may soon be over for area drivers. With help from MSU, the Michigan Department of Transportation plans to launch its variable speed limit program - seven new computerized signs which will be used to regulate traffic in highway work zones this Memorial Day weekend. “We are reducing the speed limits when there are no workers present,” MDOT spokeswoman Kari Debnar said.
An MSU employee stripped off his clothes and rushed home as soon as he found he had been exposed to mercury Wednesday in a Giltner Hall laboratory. “I’m a pretty intelligent person,” Greg Tyler said.
Kathy Pelleran filed the complaint in Ingham County Circuit Court because she was told she cannot have her name put on the ballot because she turned in an out-of-date application she downloaded and printed from the city’s Web site.Pelleran, a Lansing Community College trustee and state director of Fight Crime: Invest in Kids, said she isn’t trying to blame anyone, she just wants to fix the situation.“It’s not personal,” she said.
This summer, junior forward Julie Pagel will become the 14th Spartan to participate in the Big Ten Women’s Basketball Foreign Tour. The squad will travel to Belgium and Hollandfrom June 14-24, playing five games.
With the Memorial Day weekend, the Meadow Brook Music Festival kicks off its 39th season. The festival, which began July 23, 1964, has become a staple of the Michigan summer music scene.
There’s just something special and indescribable about music and the outdoors. I don’t know if it’s simply the elements combining with the melody of the bands, or feeling more alive than ever before while brushing up against thousands of other people simultaneously feeding off the energy in the air. Either way, your soul soars as you lose yourself in the sea of people, each there for the same reason as you - to grasp every single moment of life and draw it deep within where no one can take it away. After all, the most memorable episode in music history was a summer festival, and as many of you, I did not exist yet. The summer of 1969 brought new meaning to music and the values that it could possess for an entire generation of music-lovers.