As the Orlando summer league begins to heat up former MSU basketball players Branden Dawson and Travis Trice are trying to find their path in the NBA. Dawson, of course, is playing for the Los Angeles Clippers summer league team after he was taken with the No.
After accepting an invitation to the 2015 U.S. Pan American Men’s Basketball Team training camp, senior guard Denzel Valentine is one of 12 players who made the team, according to a news release by Spartan Athletics.
The Michigan State Black Alumni Association has partnered with Earvin “Magic” Johnson to host an inaugural scholarship fundraiser at the Detroit Golf Club on August 11, 2015. The fundraiser will support the MSUBA endowment fund, the newly established Magic Johnson Scholarship Fund and an expendable fund for students, said Paris Ross, the National President of MSUBA.
A day after news broke of the suspension of MSU junior guard Eron Harris due to a July 1 drunk driving arrest, the MSU basketball program received more bad news Wednesday, as news surfaced of junior guard Alvin Ellis’ May 2 charge of misdemeanor count of underage purchase, consumption or possession of alcohol surfaced. The charges were eventually dismissed and dropped to a public littering charge of $615, according to online records at 54B District Court in East Lansing. In addition to this, online records also indicate that a month later on June 19, Ellis was once again hit with a charge of underage purchase, consumption or possession of alcohol. "Being a student-athlete at Michigan State University is a privilege.
MSU is ranked No. 6 in the recent CBS Best in College Sports rankings. MSU is one of four Big Ten schools in the top 10. According to the website The National Association of College Directors of Athletics (NACDA) has been ranking athletic programs for years but weighs every sport equally, meaning a football national title is worth the same number of points (100) as a women's water polo title.
Former NBA player for the Portland Trailblazers and Lansing Everett basketball star Desmond Ferguson was just looking for a basketball league to emulate the ones he had played in during his college days at the University of Detroit Mercy.
MSU junior wide receiver R.J. Shelton is one of 44 players named to the 2015 Paul Hornung Award Watch List.
MSU senior quarterback Connor Cook has been named to the 2015 Maxwell Award Watch List. The Maxwell Award has been presented to college football’s player of the year since 1937, according to a press release announcing the watch list.
In more award watch list news, senior defensive end Shilique Calhoun and senior linebacker Ed Davis have been named to the 2015 Bednarik Award Watch List.
MSU basketball announced via a press release that the Spartans will play a home-and-home against Florida. The series will begin this season at the Breslin Center on Dec. 12, 2015. MSU will travel to Gainesville, Florida, at a date yet to be determined in the 2017-18 season.
Denzel Valentine has accepted his invitation to the 2015 U.S. Pan American Men’s Basketball Team training camp, according to a news release by Spartan Athletics. Twenty-two players were invited and 12 will be selected to represent the USA in Toronto from July 21-25. The training camp will take place at the United States Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs, Colo., from July 7-12, according to the release. If Valentine is selected, he will be the fifth MSU player to represent the USA since 1991.
When Madison Academy (AL) head basketball coach Andy Blackston saw a then 7th grade Joshua Langford come to his school for the first time and pick up a basketball, that’s when he knew. For Tellus Langford, it was when he saw his son win the Alabama 3A player of the year as an 8th grader on the Madison Academy varsity basketball team.
Believing that MSU has not received proper recognition for its role in the integration of college football, class of 1978 MSU graduate and former State News employee Tom Shanahan wrote Raye of Light to fully explain the Spartans and former head coach Duffy Daugherty’s impact on college football.
When his mother got him involved with the sport in fifth grade Tom Minkel, head coach of the MSU Wrestling team, knew wrestling would be a big part of his life. Minkel said it has been “heavy in his blood” since the beginning. Growing up with a father, who was an administrator at MSU, and a mother, involved in the music program at MSU, as well as attending former MSU Wrestling Head Coach Grady Peninger’s wrestling camp at IM Sports-West as a kid, Minkel found that MSU has also always been a big part of his life.
A succession plan for the MSU wrestling program has been announced, which includes the retiring of Head Coach Tom Minkel. Minkel, who has been with the program since 1991, will retire following the 2015-16 season and 25 years as the head coach at MSU. Roger Chandler, who has been with the program for 18 seasons and was promoted to assistant coach in 2011, will assume head coaching position after Minkel's retirement. "I'm excited about the future of Michigan State wrestling," said Mark Hollis, MSU athletic director in a news release.
Former MSU track and cross country runner Leah O’Connor announced her post-collegiate running plans Thursday evening after advancing to the finals of the women’s 3,000 steeplechase at the USA Track and Field Championships in Eugene, Ore. But after running her last ever race in an MSU uniform, the announcement didn’t come exactly how she pictured it. “They put me as an Adidas athlete in the results ... I was gonna do a whole picture thing tomorrow but I guess it’s not a secret,” O’Connor told reporters after the race.
Former MSU basketball player Branden Dawson is heading to Los Angeles— after getting drafted in the second round with the No.
Lansing Mitten Mavens Roller Derby took an unexpected victory against the Bath City Roller Girls on Saturday night.
Cam Gibson was always a Tiger at heart — even before it became official, when the MSU outfielder was selected by the Detroit Tigers in the fifth round of the draft, with the No. 160 overall pick.
After a disappointing season in which the MSU softball team finished 19-36, recent allegations from Alyssa McBride who just wrapped up her senior season have surrounded the team with even more questions.