TSN Podcast 22 - A wild weekend in college football plus MSU basketball's loss to Arizona
Stephen Olschanski and Casey Harrison talk a wild weekend in college football and Connor Clark joins to talk basketball's crazy finish against Arizona.
Stephen Olschanski and Casey Harrison talk a wild weekend in college football and Connor Clark joins to talk basketball's crazy finish against Arizona.
The MSU football team (3-7, 1-6 Big Ten) was able to end their seven game losing streak in emphatic fashion this past Saturday –– a 49-0 beat down of lowly Rutgers. The victory had the Spartans in good spirits, as head coach Mark Dantonio said it seemed like “we'd won the championship,” the way the locker room celebrated the victory.
MSU men's basketball take to Madison Square Garden in New York City for their next high profile battle against the No. 2 Kentucky Wildcats in the Champions Classic. The Spartans hold a record of 3-2 in the Champions Classic, however hold a 3-11 record in Madison Square Garden, 3-7 under Head Coach Tom Izzo. MSU last met Kentucky in the Champions Classic in 2013, when the Spartans finished victorious 78-74, former guard Keith Appling led with 22 points.
The number of students who drink and smoke regularly has gone down dramatically over the last 16 years, an MSU survey suggests.
Just one game into the MSU men's basketball season, freshman forward Miles Bridges picked up an honor, being named Co-Big Ten Freshmen of the Week.
After a disappointing 2-1 semifinal loss to No.1 Maryland in the Big Ten tournament, the MSU soccer team looks to rebound in the NCAA tournament.
As Thanksgiving is just two weeks away, most MSU students are preparing to head home to celebrate the holiday with their families and friends.
On Nov. 9, America decided it's 45th president: Republican Donald J. Trump. To many pundits and polls, this came as a shock. Democrat Hillary Clinton polled ahead in nearly every major swing state for a majority of the election, and was poised to win the election by a landslide.
An engineering group at MSU developed a system that will help with the quality of air in people’s homes.
Traveling can help you not only learn more about the world, but also yourself. International relations senior Mary Machtel said that after traveling to Brazil for an exchange program, she learned much about the country but also about how important it was for her to step out of her comfort zone and make connections with others. “Making those connections, seeing the differences, seeing the similarities and how to work with those,” she said.
People gathered Sunday night in Cook Recital Hall in the MSU College of Music, to listen to music and to hear the stories of people who have experienced displacement due to conflicts around the world, such as the Syrian Civil War. The person to organize it all, is president of the MSU chapter of the Refugee Outreach Kalamazoo, ROK, and psychology senior Sydney Conroy.
The sound of the "Michigan State Fight Song" echoed throughout the MSU Pavilion for Agriculture and Livestock Education on Nov. 12.
"A U.S. veteran is someone who, at some point in their life, has written a blank check to the United States of America. This blank check forfeits whatever is needed, including the veteran’s life." Although he didn’t come up with the anonymous quote himself, assistant facilities manager and veteran Robert Hernandez said that it is the ideas of veterans like this that warrants them a thank you on Veterans Day.
Imagine skating with friends, listening to '90s music and taking it back to your childhood days. This dream became a reality on Friday, Nov. 11 at Demonstration Hall.
For seven weeks the only consistency for MSU football was that no matter the scheme, the personnel nor the play calls, nothing would avoid another week of losing.
The lineups were announced, the national anthem played, and the puck drop signified another home game for the MSU hockey team at Munn Ice Arena. There, the team hosted Ferris State University in game one of the home-and-home series. The icers were unable to capitalize on their home portion though, as the Spartans fell 4-1 in the opener.
There is a paradox in sports. When everything looks evergreen, all of a sudden there is demolition. This paradox stole the minds of football fans when MSU football crashed — from a College Football Playoff team — to second to last in the Big Ten.
Ice hockey, one of the most popular sports not only in Michigan, but also throughout the world. There are 1,749,976 people registered with the International Ice Hockey Federation, or IIHF, according to the 2016 annual report. Along with the people who play ice hockey and aren’t registered with IIHF, there are spinoffs of the game. One of them is roller hockey.
After the crowd had filed in, the lights in the theater dimmed. The lights on the stage came up and four students stood on the stage in silence.