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ICE HOCKEY

Icers look to solve inconsistencies

Jeff Kanan
February 1, 2011

Head coach Rick Comley believes the key to fixing the MSU hockey team’s inconsistencies this season revolves around one thing: scoring early goals. The Spartans (11-13-4 overall, 7-11-2 CCHA) lately have tallied four or more goals in games where they’ve generated an early goal and scored fewer than two in games they haven’t tallied one in the first period. Last weekend, MSU managed to go 1-1 against No.

MEN'S BASKETBALL

Spartans prep for new-look Hawkeyes

Jeremy Warnemuende
February 1, 2011

After traveling through a snowstorm to take on Iowa at 8:30 p.m. Wednesday in Iowa City, Iowa, the MSU men’s basketball team will be welcomed by a new-look Hawkeyes team. Typically a team that prefers to milk every second of the shot clock before firing a shot, first-year head coach Fran McCaffery has Iowa playing a slightly different style. “They’re more up and down,” MSU senior guard Kalin Lucas said.

MEN'S BASKETBALL

Spartans have target on backs in Big Ten

Jeremy Warnemuende
January 31, 2011

Throughout the last decade of Tom Izzo’s tenure as head coach of the MSU men’s basketball team, the Spartans arguably have become the most feared program in the Big Ten. However, fresh off two-straight conference championships, MSU finds itself in an unusual position this year — struggling in the middle of the Big Ten.

Chris Vannini ·
BASKETBALL

Still hanging on

Jeremy Warnemuende
January 30, 2011

With 2.9 seconds left in regulation of Sunday night’s 84-83 win against Indiana, Draymond Green — a junior forward for the MSU men’s basketball team — had every right to be nervous. The No.

ICE HOCKEY

Icers spilt weekend, down U-M

Jeff Kanan
January 30, 2011

The MSU hockey team proved once again this weekend it can hang with the best of the CCHA but still are trying to find consistency. In a packed Joe Louis Arena, the Spartans (11-13-4 overall, 7-11-2 CCHA) dropped No.

ICE HOCKEY

Icers beat Michigan, 2-1, finish season series even

Jeff Kanan
January 30, 2011

Detroit — If Saturday’s game was any indication of how MSU hockey head coach Rick Comley will finish his final regular season with MSU, the near future looks satisfying. Senior forward Joey Shean scored on a rebound with 7:34 remaining to put the Spartans ahead 2-1, and MSU weathered a 4-on-4, penalty shot and some good Wolverine chances to defeat No.

Jeremy Warnemuende ·
BASKETBALL

Spartans near ‘rock bottom’ after U-M loss

Jeremy Warnemuende
January 27, 2011

The core of a Final Four team was back: Senior guard Kalin Lucas was healthy, and future hall of fame coach Tom Izzo had turned down an offer from the NBA to come back more determined than ever. Yet somehow Thursday night, that potential dream season, which already had been more rocky than anyone expected, officially became a nightmare.

SPORTS

Spartan throwers propel track and field team into season

Michelle Martinelli
January 27, 2011

In his fourth year as the throws coach, MSU track and field team assistant coach John Newell has seen his athletes grow up and develop into some of MSU’s most talented performers. What he described as a “tremendous” experience, Newell said because the seniors were freshmen when he started coaching, he’s been able to know and understand them as athletes while helping them perfect their technique and advance their skills.

MEN'S SOCCER

Giving his all

Pat Evans
January 27, 2011

Ian Givens was looking out for his two boys — Colin and Stewart — when he decided to apply for British citizenship.

Jeremy Warnemuende ·
MEN'S BASKETBALL

Rock bottom blues

Chris Vannini
January 27, 2011

For the first time in 12 meetings in East Lansing, the Michigan men’s basketball team defeated No. 25 MSU, 61-57, Thursday night at Breslin Center.

MEN'S BASKETBALL

Team plagued with troubles all season

Chris Vannini
January 26, 2011

Here we go again. The team with seemingly never-ending drama strikes again. This time with the season-long dismissal of junior guard Korie Lucious. To catch you up, the drama surrounding this team began in June, when MSU men’s basketball head coach Tom Izzo took some time to ponder a move to the NBA’s Cleveland Cavaliers.