As if there weren’t enough hype for the Spartans’ battle with Notre Dame this weekend, the Big Ten Network wants to add one more to that lengthy list — dedicated to the days leading up to kickoff.
Unless you’re a member of the MSU football program, on his family tree or part of his Fave Five, Brian Hoyer probably doesn’t care what you think about the way he plays football.
Step right up! Step right up! Watch in awe as the prognosticators pull out magical predictions out of their prognosticatin’ hats! And then saw those predictions in half! And then put them back together again!
There’s little doubt MSU’s rivalry with Notre Dame has become one of the most interesting in college football.
BFew rivalries across the nation carry as much history as the one between MSU and Notre Dame. Wild comebacks, colossal upsets and breathtaking finishes have been normal in a rivalry that has been anything but.
The MSU women’s soccer team treated Detroit Mercy as if they were just a speed bump on the road to bigger and better things.
A weekend full of downpours couldn’t stop the Spartans’ season-long dominance. The MSU women’s soccer team’s patience and willingness to stick it out in the pouring rain and standing water on the field allowed them to enter the Green and White record books — posting their seventh straight victory in a 3-0 win to Kent State on Sunday at DeMartin Stadium at Old College Field, the best start in school history.
Coming into this weekend’s first Big Ten game at Ohio State, the men’s soccer team is 2-3. All three losses have come to teams who made the NCAA Tournament last year. So unlike football or basketball, the soccer schedule doesn’t have any gimmick games. Here’s how the team looks heading into conference play.
Preaching team defense all season, the No. 10 MSU field hockey team has shown it on the field. Leading the charge is junior goalkeeper Elissa Unger, who received Big Ten Defensive Player of the Week honors this week for her play in last weekend’s games against then-No. 18 Boston University and New Hampshire.
This weekend, the MSU women’s golf team hosts the Mary Fossum Invitational, its only home tournament of the season, at Forest Akers West Golf Course.
After Saturday’s game between Purdue and Central Michigan, the third meeting between the teams in 370 days, both sides will probably know each other like brothers.
The MSU volleyball team struggled to extend its winning streak Tuesday night with a 3-1 defeat of Oakland. After a slow start, the team dominated the first set, rallying from a 7-7 tie early on to win the set 25-15.
Senior distance runner Nicole Bush was named Big Ten Women’s Cross Country Runner of the Week on Tuesday.
The MSU women’s soccer team’s regularly scheduled 4 p.m. game today has been moved to Okemos High School.
In his less than two years at the helm of the MSU football program, Mark Dantonio has said two characteristics he wanted to see his football team embody are toughness and overcoming adversity.
The Spartan Athletic Ticket Office is accepting requests-with-payment for student men’s basketball admission through Wednesday.
The MSU volleyball team will finish its nonconference schedule this week with matches against Oakland and Central Michigan, the first of which will be played tonight at Jenison Field House.
The Big Ten Players of the Week were announced Monday and three Spartans made the list. For the second straight week, football senior running back Javon Ringer was named Big Ten Offensive Player of the Week. Ringer ran the ball 43 times and had 282 yards during Saturday’s game — both were career highs.
With water streaming down from the sky and piling up on the sidelines and corners of DeMartin Stadium at Old College Field on Sunday afternoon during the MSU women’s soccer game, MSU sports turf manager Amy Fouty knew the effects from Hurricane Ike that blasted through campus wouldn’t be an every-weekend event.