The MSU men's tennis team is set to host the Big Ten Indoor Championship this weekend in the second tournament of the Spartans' fall season. The Spartans will be represented by sophomore Nick Rinks, juniors Joseph McWilliams and Michael Flowers, and freshmen Alex Forger, John Allare and Scott Rasmussen out of a 64-player main draw. The tournament will start at 9 a.m.
The No. 10 MSU women's basketball team will have one more chance to tune up for the regular season when it hosts Grand Valley State in an exhibition game at 2 p.m.
The men's basketball team was given a brief scare recently when one of its most indispensable players went down with an injury. Junior guard Shannon Brown sustained a bruised rib during an exhibition game Monday against Lake Superior State when he collided with redshirt freshman forward Marquise Gray.
The MSU men's swimming and diving team will host No. 18 Notre Dame at 5 p.m. on Friday at the Charles McCaffree Pool. These two teams have split the last four contests between each other. The Spartans enter the match with a 1-2 dual meet record and Notre Dame enters with a 2-1 record.
With a great defensive effort, the men's soccer team moved one step closer to another Big Ten Tournament title by defeating rival Michigan 1-0 Thursday. "We played the best second half we have had all year," head coach Joe Baum said.
For only the second time in school history, the MSU women's soccer team is heading to the NCAA Tournament.
After winning the Big Ten Tournament last season, the MSU men's soccer team has a steep hill to climb to do it again. The Spartans (7-5-5) are entering this year's tournament as the No.
Five high school basketball players — three men and two women — signed National Letters of Intent on Wednesday to attend MSU and play for the Spartans in the 2006-07 season.
After another week, the Big Ten title picture is as muddy as it ever was. The game with the most importance in the title picture this week is Northwestern traveling to Ohio Stadium to face Ohio State. Both teams could still win a share of the Big Ten title, but will need help from MSU to do so. If the Spartans defeat Penn State on Nov.
Having won only two of its last 10 matches in conference play, the floundering MSU volleyball team will head to Ann Arbor on Wednesday in an attempt to resurrect its season. The Spartans (11-13 overall, 4-10 Big Ten), sitting in a three-way tie for eighth in the Big Ten, will face off against Michigan at 7 p.m.
After MSU's 28-21 loss at Purdue this past weekend, the last thing on head coach John L. Smith's mind was becoming eligible for a bowl berth following a victory. "It just bothers me when I hear us going out the door to play the game, to walk on the field, to, 'Let's go get a bowl game,'" Smith said.
Seven games into the season, the No. 6 MSU hockey team has shown that it is going to be a team that will be there until the end. The Spartans (5-1-1 overall, 2-0-1 CCHA) are riding on a three-game streak and will look to extend it starting 7:35 p.m.
The MSU women's soccer team will face Bowling Green in the first round of the NCAA Tournament at 5 p.m.
MSU sophomore defender Erin Doan walks back to midfield as members of the Wisconsin team celebrate senior midfielder Amy Vermeulen's game-winning goal in the semifinal game of the Big Ten Women's Soccer Tournament on Friday at Michigan Soccer Field in Ann Arbor.
The MSU field hockey team looked up at the scoreboard and saw something all too familiar. The Spartans were knocked out of the Big Ten Tournament in the first round on Friday after losing to Ohio State, 1-0.
I believe the MSU Spartans can beat any football team in the country. Let me back up for a moment and explain a harebrained statement like that. I watched a couple of games on television over the weekend.
West Lafayette, Ind. — A common sight in Saturday's 28-21 loss at Purdue was the vision of uprooted chunks of grass on Ross-Ade Stadium following pivots, cuts and runs from players on both teams. The field conditions were so bad that stadium personnel and representatives from each team hurried onto the field during TV timeouts and stoppages in play in attempting to repair the divots on the field. "It was probably the worst field you've ever seen," MSU head coach John L.
Going into the weekend, the No. 8 MSU hockey team's major question was whether or not it could keep up its solid play with all of the injuries it has suffered. After 10 goals and two completely different styles of wins, the Spartans walked away from their weekend series against No.
West Lafayette, Ind. Once again, MSU's vaunted offense failed to put up points against one of the worst defenses in the country. Ranked 116th defensively out 117 teams in Division 1-A, Purdue shut down the Spartans offense from the first quarter en route to its first Big Ten win, 28-21, at Ross-Ade Stadium. "We started out great," junior quarterback Drew Stanton said.
• A Missouri lawmaker wants to expand the state's athlete and entertainer tax to make umpires pay for what he sees as bad calls made during the playoff series in which the St.