After last season’s debacle, MSU head coach Rick Comley has a new policy on recruiting. Instead of looking for flashy, young players, Comley is after a different type of player best summed up in three words — bigger, stronger and older.
Despite leading by as many as 13 in the first half, the MSU women’s basketball team collapsed in the second half, shooting 21.2 percent and allowing Indiana to grab a late lead it would never relinquish in a 68-63 loss to the Hoosiers on Sunday afternoon at Breslin Center.
The Wofford Terriers came to East Lansing looking to give the MSU men’s basketball team a dogfight. And, for most of the night, they did.
The size, speed and strength displayed by high school football players doesn’t always translate to the rugged Big Ten Conference. Sometimes, players live up to those expectations.
Isaiah Lewis ended his high school football career without a state championship ring. His No. 1 goal entering college is to make sure his collegiate career doesn’t end the same way.
Relief and elation: Two things Marcus Rush said he felt after his verbal commitment to join the Spartans’ 2010 recruiting class.
Dantonio’s picked out some great talent for 2014, but will they be able to surpass the power of the Victoria’s Secret-crazed sorority girls from last week’s Prognosticators? Only time will tell.
The awards for junior linebacker Greg Jones kept coming Thursday, as Jones was named an All-American by the American Football Coaches Association.
Even on Thanksgiving, Taylor Calero was lifting weights and training to make up for lost time. Calero, a linebacker for Southfield Christian High School, missed most of his senior season after a sports hernia that occurred in March was misdiagnosed.
Walking onto the field before his Senior Night game, Chelsea High School running back Nick Hill might have been difficult for the casual observer to spot.
Until June, Saline High School quarterback Joe Boisture was going to be a Boston College Eagle.
Some people are raised to be Spartans fans. Others are born to wear the Green and White.
It wasn’t the physicality of the sport that first piqued William Gholston’s interest in football. Nor was it the athleticism or precision the players displayed on the field.
A rivalry has been developing between the basketball programs at MSU and North Carolina the past few seasons. Tuesday the Tar Heels men’s basketball team continued its dominance by beating MSU for the third time in the past two seasons.
The MSU women’s basketball team announced Wednesday that fans who show their MSU Federal Credit Union credit/debit card at the Breslin Center ticket office today will receive two free tickets to tonight’s 8:30 p.m. game between No. 22 MSU and No. 4 North Carolina.
It might not be as intense as the Michigan rivalry, but the MSU vs. Northern Michigan rivalry is growing.
Sometimes it takes a second chance to finish what’s been started. After going 12-0 in nonconference games to open the year, the MSU volleyball team struggled through a 5-15 Big Ten season, but kept fighting through the end of the season and was rewarded with an invitation to this season’s NCAA Tournament — a second opportunity.
Seventy-three MSU student athletes were named to the Big Ten Fall Academic All-Confernece teams, the conference announced Tuesday, giving the Spartans the fourth-most honorees out the 11 Big Ten teams.
MSU volleyball sophomore middle blocker Kyndra Abron was named to the First Team All-Big Ten following a strong season around the net for the Spartans.
There’s no need to panic. That’s the message MSU head coach Rick Comley is filtering down to his No. 11 MSU hockey team — even though the Spartans are winless in their last four games (0-3-1).