Junior swimmer Ian Clutten will be the lone Spartan heading to the 2005 NCAA Championships which starts noon today in Minneapolis. The Capetown, South Africa, native will compete in the 100 and 200 breaststrokes. This season in the Big Ten Championships, Clutten placed third in the 100- and 200-yard breaststrokes as MSU came in ninth place.
Don't worry avid Courtside readers, you're not in some parallel universe because the progs prediction is one day early.
MSU head coach Rick Comley and the Spartans scored another recruit when defenseman Matt Shouneyia of the NAHL's Cleveland Barons verbally committed to MSU for the upcoming 2005-06 season. Shouneyia, a 6-footer from West Bloomfield, is the captain of the Barons and ranks fifth among NAHL defenseman with 30 points.
With a record 10-game winning streak under its belt, the MSU women's tennis team prepares for battle against Michigan today.
The MSU football team will head into spring practice starting Friday with a new attitude and a sense of accountability to one another, MSU head coach John L.
Nobody would have predicted in September that the MSU hockey team, ranked No. 10 in the preseason, would have finished the season with a 20-17-4 record and miss the tournament cut. But that's how the Spartans finished, missing the NCAA Tournament for the second time in three years. Many things went wrong for the Spartans this year.
Former MSU hockey players Bryan Smolinski and Jason Woolley will be back in East Lansing in the "Hockey for Hope" charity game at 6 p.m.
Fresh off tournament victories in Massachusetts, the MSU men's basketball team was back at the grind Monday, in a high-intensity practice, prepping for the next opponent, a familiar one - Duke. Senior swingman Alan Anderson could hardly sit still talking to the media after practice Monday. "We got a chance to practice another week," Anderson said.
Welcome back to the bandwagon boys and girls. We missed you. For the sixth time in eight years, the MSU men have earned a trip to the Sweet 16. In fact, the bandwagon is slowly getting filled up.
The MSU baseball team couldn't maintain a fifth inning four-run lead against Bradley and ended up losing, 6-5, Sunday. In five and one-third innings, sophomore pitcher Craig Brookes surrendered two runs on five hits.
The MSU men's tennis team dropped its third straight loss Sunday to Louisville, 5-2. MSU is now 10-6 on the year. Freshmen Adam Monich and Brian Compton notched the only doubles victory for the Spartans at No.
With March Madness already upon us, people in offices, dorm floors and classrooms are jumping into pools all over the country, especially at MSU. Brackets have been filled out all over campus and groups sprung up seemingly everywhere. English sophomore David Janisse is participating in two pools this year, one with his family that he does every year, and one with a group of about a dozen friends. "It's just for fun," Janisse said.
Worcester, Mass. - Hunched over with his hands resting on his knees, Vermont star forward Taylor Coppenrath barely had the energy to shake hands with the MSU team that ended his college basketball career in the second round of the NCAA Tournament on Sunday. Coppenrath and his four fellow Catamounts starters should have been exhausted.
The MSU gymnastics team hosted No. 7 Michigan in the last home meet of the season on Friday. The Spartans fell to the Wolverines 196.500 to 195.075 after U-M took an early lead in the first event. "We had some falls," senior Kristin Merritt said.
The Spartans missed the tournament cut for the second time in three years and have only been to the dance once since Rick Comley took over the reign of head coach from former head coach and current MSU Athletics Director Ron Mason.
Minneapolis - After a solid opening-round performance in the NCAA Tournament against Alcorn State, the top-seeded MSU women's basketball team will face No.
It wasn't the way the senior class wanted to go out. After annihilating Nebraska-Omaha in the CCHA Super Six quarterfinals Thursday to extend a season-high win streak to six, the MSU hockey team closed the season with two straight losses.
Two MSU wrestlers finished in the top six in their respective weight classes, earning All-America honors for the first time since 1998.
On an MSU hockey road trip to Miami (Ohio) in early January, a RedHawks fan overheard that I wanted to speak with senior captain Jim Slater following one of the games. The fan turned to me and said, "You requested Slater for postgame?" I nodded my head.
Wrestlers continue NCAA Championships Three MSU wrestlers are seeded for the NCAA Championships, which started Thursday in St.