With so much building up to the start of the conference season, head coach Damon Rensing said Michigan State delivered their "most complete game" of the season as MSU (3-1) defeated Rutgers (0-4) 4-0 Friday afternoon.
On Friday, MSU head basketball coach Tom Izzo along with former NBA stars Yao Ming, Sheryl Swoopes, Allen Iverson and Shaquille O’Neal were inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. Izzo — now headed into his twenty-second year at the helm of the Spartans — is known for giving enthusiastic and emotional speeches. Izzo said at the induction ceremony on Friday that he was very thankful for the honor and repeatedly thanked his players for helping him forge a Hall of Fame coaching career.
After racking up 292 total yards and accounting for six touchdowns on the road against Texas, Notre Dame quarterback Deshone Kizer cemented himself as one of the Fighting Irish's heaviest weapons.
In the season's Big Ten season opener, MSU (3-1) defeated Rutgers (0-4) 4-0 on Friday afternoon. The Spartans had to wait for the breakthrough, as it took an entire first half of possession and eight shots before sophomore forward Ryan Sierakowski finally netted a free kick 21 seconds before the halftime. Then, the goals poured, with many second-half chances and conversions.
After a year long process of surgery, rehabilitation, graduation and a drawn out paper filing process, Ed Davis will play a sixth year for the MSU football team.
As MSU men's basketball head coach Tom Izzo is inducted into the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame, The State News looks back at some of Izzo's biggest wins and most memorable moments. Izzo's induction class also includes former NBA stars, Yao Ming, Shaquille O'Neal, and Allen Iverson.
After missing the 2015 football season with a torn ACL, MSU linebacker Ed Davis has been granted a sixth year of eligibility by the NCAA. The news broke in a tweet by head football coach Mark Dantonio shortly before 11:30 a.m.
In episode three, The State News sports editor Casey Harrison and Stephen Olschanski talk Tom Izzo's induction into Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame, the absurdity of the NFL, MSU football's bye week and give you their picks for college football's biggest games of the weekend.
Sixth-year senior Kevin Williams is a battler. The Nebraska transfer lost both his 2011 and 2013 seasons to knee injuries and fought through a groin injury in 2015. Injuries have not kept him down, and now he plans on becoming an integral part of MSU’s defensive line rotation.
MSU football will hold a walk-on tryout meeting on Monday, Sept. 12 at 4 p.m. in the Pentecost Team Meeting Room inside the Skandalaris Football Center.
When the MSU volleyball team trots out onto the court right before the game, they come out of the locker room wearing the same colored jerseys -- except for one player.
The MSU volleyball team will continue their non-conference schedule as they head to Bowling Green, Ky.
University of Buffalo, Memphis University, Oregon State University, Stanford University and MSU all have one thing in common: their bye falls in week 2 of the college football season.
The Michigan State men's soccer team has been a brewing melting pot of prowess, shortcomings, and resilience three games into the regular season. And as the Spartans have hinted at both a superb season ahead and one that could be quite long, their real muster will tested on Friday afternoon, with the Big Ten regular season beginning with a home game against Rutgers.
MSU head football coach Mark Dantonio held his weekly press conference Tuesday, highlighting his team’s win over Furman University last Friday night and fielded questions about how he plans to prepare the team during its unusually early bye week.
In the tenth annual Crosstown Showdown — an exhibition between the Michigan State University baseball team and the Lansing Lugnuts, the class-A Midwest League affiliate for the Toronto Blue Jays — ended in the Lugnuts’ favor, winning their fifth-straight matchup between the Spartans by a final score of 4-1 at Cooley Law School Stadium in downtown Lansing.
MSU will enter its bye week ranked No. 8 in the nation following the release of the USA Today Coaches Poll Tuesday afternoon. After starting the year ranked No. 11 in the coaches poll, MSU's harder-than-expected victory over Furman didn't cost them any slippage in large due to two top 10 teams falling in week one.
State News sports editor Casey Harrison and football beat writer Stephen Olschanski bring you show No. 2 of the TSN Sports Podcast.
MSU football’s growing pain victory over Furman on Friday came with the caveat reserved for wins with less than desirable means of victory — they all count one.
Labor Day was no break from work for the Michigan State men’s soccer team. Monday afternoon, the Spartans braved an onerous test of stamina and fitness in order to outlast the Columbia Lions in front of a packed DeMartin Stadium crowd, 2-1.