In a secondary filled with veteran cornerbacks and safeties, freshman Johnny Adams knows he’s low on the pecking order — and his teammates aren’t afraid to remind him either.
Every now and then, a TV analyst or newspaper columnist makes a wise-crack about kickers. By noting that kickers don’t hit, don’t get hit and simply stand on the sidelines kicking footballs into a net, they try to make a point by saying kickers aren’t football players.
Until Sunday’s 4-2 loss against UC Davis, the MSU men’s soccer team hadn’t given up four goals in a game since Oct. 12, 2003. Strong defensive play is something head coach Joe Baum has always stressed to his teams while serving at MSU, and he isn’t satisfied with his squad giving up seven goals in two games this weekend.
After starting the season 0-3, the MSU volleyball team began to work more on teamwork and defense, something head coach Cathy George said helped the team slow down the action on the court. The change worked, as the Spartans moved to 3-3 on the season last weekend, winning the Delaware Invitational.
When the cross country team competed in the Jeff Drenth Memorial 5K two weeks ago, it was looking for an idea of how competitive it will be this year.
After two weeks of nagging injuries, the MSU football team’s defensive line is back to full health and ready to take on another stout opposing offensive line this week.
Simone Jardim has been hired as the new head coach of the MSU women’s tennis team.
After putting two seconds of thought into the Detroit Lions’ 34-21 embarrassment against the Atlanta Falcons on Sunday, I have decided to rescind my fanship from the only NFL team I have ever known.
Games like Saturday’s football home opener against Eastern Michigan are the reason junior defensive end Trevor Anderson joined head coach Mark Dantonio in transferring to MSU two years ago.
It wasn’t quite as high scoring or dazzling as games in the past, but the outcome was just the same — victory for MSU. The Spartans women’s soccer team held off Loyola 2-0 on Sunday afternoon at DeMartin Soccer Stadium at Old College Field — extending their overall record to 5-0, a feat only achieved three other times in the program’s 22-year history.
It started off as something she could only hang her head about. Junior forward Lauren Hill started to realize that her first-game suspension — from a red card in last year’s finale — would give her the motivation and appetite to come out in game two hungrier than ever.
MSU’s string of dominance over the Eastern Michigan football team continued Saturday, when the Spartans topped the Eagles 42-10 at Spartan Stadium. MSU holds an 8-0 lead all-time in the series. With an eye on the Eagles, here are a few more notes stemming from the game.
The No. 10 MSU field hockey team suffered its first loss of the season Sunday, falling 3-1 to No. 18 Syracuse. The game was a defensive struggle for most of the day. Scoring didn’t begin until the 25th minute when freshman back Angie Lucik scored the first goal of her MSU career on a rebound of a penalty corner.
In case you didn’t get the message, MSU head coach Mark Dantonio wants to run the ball this season. Dantonio made that point abundantly clear once again Saturday, when he opted to run the ball on 52 of his team’s 68 plays from scrimmage.
Each of the MSU women’s soccer team’s games have been a mirror of the previous one — score early, add insurance goals and don’t allow the opponent a chance to get back in the game.
Amp Campbell had made hundreds of tackles while abiding by football’s golden defensive rule. Keep your head up. Every coach tells his defensive players the same rule. It’s like telling a basketball player to stay between your man and the basket or a baseball player to keep your eye on the ball. Tackling led him to East Lansing for a scholarship, all-conference recognition and a possible NFL career.
Heading into MSU’s spring game last April, a funny feeling surrounded sophomore wide receiver Mark Dell. He wasn’t all that nervous.
With beads of sweat building on his forehead and a bright red cut near his left elbow after practice Tuesday, it was clear that coaches aren’t letting up on Javon Ringer this year.
If there was anything worth missing this summer, it definitely wasn’t your friends, your apartment, or the busy feel of campus in the afternoon — it was this: your very own Prognosticators.