With an 0-2 start, no bowl wins since the 2002 Outback Bowl and a never-ending underground movement for his removal, Michigan football head coach Lloyd Carr is likely done after this season as King of the Rodents.
Two close games turned out two different results for the MSU women’s soccer team on their weekend road trip. The Spartans managed a split on their trip out East, beating Penn 1-0 Friday and dropping 2-1 to Lehigh in overtime Sunday.
Donning green and white from head to toe, Mary Fossum stood behind the 18th green Sunday to watch a program she helped pioneer clinch another victory.
Reclaiming the title, setting a new tournament record and turning in the lowest freshman debut in program history is all in a day’s work for the MSU women’s golf team.
If the MSU pass rush needed a slogan, it might be, “What a difference a year makes.” The Spartans recorded 16 sacks in 2006 – just two more than last-place Indiana in the Big Ten. On Saturday, though, MSU collected seven sacks to bring its season total to 12 in two games.
Spartan football tasted adversity for the first time this season, but they just chewed it up and spit it right back out, defeating Bowling Green 28-17 on Saturday. “The thing that impressed me about our football team is that we did handle adversity,” head coach Mark Dantonio said. “We didn’t just go in there and all of a sudden quit playing and hang our heads. We kept coming back and someone kept making a play.”
MSU fans were introduced to a terrific concept last Saturday called schadenfreude. And, really, we have yet to let that go.
Two members of the Thornhill legacy will walk onto Spartan Stadium’s field Saturday, and a third will be there in spirit.
By halftime of the Michigan football game against Appalachian State on Saturday, two tailgaters who had been listening on the radio in East Lansing had a pressing request for custom clothing store Spartan Corner, 103 E. Grand River Ave.
Last season, all it took was a 30-yard run by then-junior running back Jehuu Caulcrick to put the Spartans ahead of No. 12-ranked Notre Dame, 37-21, with just less than six minutes remaining in the third quarter. MSU was in control of the game.
Head coach Mark Dantonio has been saying all along that football is a game of inches, and after several upsets last Saturday, his claim was validated.
The State News recently caught up with field hockey sophomore goalkeeper Elissa Unger. The Spartans are 4-0 and ranked No. 7 nationally.
It was a good weekend for MSU field hockey — especially for sophomore back Jeamie Deacon. Starting off with a dominating 5-1 win over Miami (Ohio) last Friday and keeping the momentum going with a 3-0 victory over Boston University the following Sunday, the team upped their record to an unbeaten 4-0.
The NFL season officially kicks off tonight with the defending Super Bowl champion Indianapolis Colts taking on the 2006 Cinderella New Orleans Saints, and the answer to “Are you ready for some football?” is probably a sarcastic “duh” for many fans. As you countdown to tonight’s kickoff here are some predictions for the 2007 season.
Still glowing from last season’s Big Ten Championship win, the MSU women’s golf team is gearing up for what they hope to be an even more successful season — starting with the Mary Fossum Invitational at Forest Akers West Golf Course.
Doug DeMartin has had an up-and-down career at MSU. As a freshman in 2005, DeMartin scored seven goals, including two game-winners, with three assists. But those numbers tailed off to two goals and three assists last season. Now, it appears DeMartin has put that behind him and things are looking up again – he scored two goals in the season’s opening two games this past weekend. Both of them were game-winners.
The Big Ten Network couldn’t have scripted a better first weekend. When the University of Michigan lost its home opener against Appalachian State University in a historical upset Saturday, the network received hours of free publicity when other networks broadcasted interviews, highlights and press conferences from the channel.
Senior running back Jehuu Caulcrick’s appreciation for his offensive line goes beyond mere words after Saturday’s 55-18 win over Alabama-Birmingham.