The MSU baseball team’s postseason hopes were shattered this weekend in State College, Pa., after it dropped four straight games to Penn State. “We certainly are disappointed,” MSU head baseball coach Ted Mahan said.
Thank you, thank you, one and all. Please be seated. Thank you for voting me as the best reporter on The State News Spring 2001 Sports Desk!
I had never been on the actual field of Spartan Stadium before. So when I got to help cover a football game this season and learned that the press was allowed there for the last few minutes of the game, I was stoked. And luckily for me, the game I chose to cover was one of the most exciting I’ve seen in my three years here. I’m not sure why MSU has a special rivalry with Notre Dame, but on that Saturday afternoon, there was no doubt that pride and bragging rights lay clearly on the line with the game. We had beat the Irish for the past three seasons, something they weren’t really used to, and they seemed determine to not let it happen again.
After a hectic semester of eating fast food and racking up frequent flier miles, my job of covering the team became truly worthwhile after MSU’s loss to Arizona.
It will be an off-weekend for the Big Ten conference in baseball this weekend, but the MSU baseball team will still be in action with three home games at Kobs Field.
With only six games remaining, the MSU softball team is on the outside looking in.“We have to win,” sophomore outfielder Tiffany Wallace said.
Despite a disappointing ending to the men’s basketball season, the month of March is one I’ll never forget. From St.
To say it was one heckuva semester around the MSU sports family would be like saying Wile E. Coyote has a little bit of trouble catching the Road Runner.
MSU football and basketball games should be easier to tune into next year, now that MSU has signed a four-year contract with CBS Radio/Infinity Broadcasting in Detroit. Starting next season, all MSU football games will be broadcast on WXYT Radio, (Team 1270 AM) and all MSU basketball games will be broadcast on WWJ Radio (950 AM). WXYT will also host weekly call-in shows with football head coach Bobby Williams and men’s basketball head coach Tom Izzo.
The last time the Lugnuts traveled to South Bend, Ind., both of their games against the Silver Hawks were canceled because of a bitter mix of cold and rain.But forecasts for their four-game series with the Silver Hawks this weekend predict sunny skies and warmer temperatures.And Lugnuts manager Julio Garcia is hoping the spring sunshine thaws his team’s frigid start.The Lugnuts (4-13) and Silver Hawks square off tonight and Saturday in South Bend and then return to Lansing for games Sunday and Monday.
March 22, 2001. A day that will live in infamy. On this date I wrote a column that ran in The State News’ NCAA Final Four special section and the Arizona Wildcat, the University of Arizona’s student newspaper. In the column, I trashed the entire Arizona basketball team and program while fully displaying my Spartan pride, which single-handedly angered the entire Arizona campus - in fact, before tipoff I received roughly 165 hate e-mails from Arizona basketball fans from across the country. Those fans called me things like a white, pasty Midwesterner, Mr. Fatfield and even names that are far too inappropriate to be published in a newspaper.
The MSU hockey team will be looking a little more traditional next season, sports information Director Mike Eidelbes said.The team’s jerseys will be newly designed by Nike with a darker green, to match MSU’s other athletic teams, and a more predominant use of black, Eidelbes said.Eidelbes didn’t have specific details of the new design, but said fans should expect a classic look, following the likes of the Team Canada jerseys.
I have spent hours of researching the past two months, looking up figures, studying histories and reading articles.
The women’s golf team is red-hot heading into Gopher-country for this weekend’s Big Ten Championship.The Spartans, ranked 17th by MasterCard and 23rd by Golfweek, won the Indiana Invitational on April 8 and placed second out of 16 teams at the Lady Buckeye Invitational last weekend, falling one stroke short of host Ohio State.Now, they set their sites on a conference title.“I think our odds are very good,” junior Emily Bastel said.
Thanks to the MSU men’s golf team, it will be a little harder to get tee times at Forest Akers West Golf Course this weekend.
LANSING - A game under the lights at Oldsmobile Park couldn’t brighten the play of the MSU baseball team as if lost its second consecutive game to Central Michigan 15-6 on Wednesday night.
Unlike most 17-year-old high school juniors, offensive tackle Kyle Cook is sure he knows where he’d like to attend college.The Dakota High student, from Macomb, Mich., verbally committed April 18 to play football for MSU in 2002.
Paul Terek may have just broken two MSU records for track and field, but he wants more.“I think I can score higher points,” he said.Senior co-captain Terek set the records in the decathlon, scoring 7,441 points, and the pole vault, with a height of 17 feet, 7 inches, last weekend.
ROCHESTER - Strong pitching and timely hitting preserved a two-game sweep at Oakland for the MSU softball team.With junior pitchers Becky Gray and Keri DeJong posting complete games, the Spartans (20-34, 4-10 Big Ten) completed the sweep with 5-3 and 1-0 wins, respectively.
Psychology senior Mark Lindsey left the Okemos Meijer on Monday with a few things from his shopping list and one thing he wasn’t counting on - the autograph of an Olympic Champion.Tara Lipinski, the 1998 figure skating gold medalist, spent the afternoon signing autographs to promote the charity show she’s headlining at 7:30 p.m., Saturday at Munn Ice Arena.