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.
Junior goalkeeper Jason Tillman made four saves as the MSU men's soccer team closed out the regular season with a 2-0 victory at Valparaiso on Sunday. Senior midfielder Steve Doster scored the first goal, his third of the season, about 15 minutes into the game on a penalty kick. With less than two minutes left in the game, redshirt freshman forward Doug DeMartin iced the game with another goal. Tillman notched his sixth shutout of the season. The Spartans (7-5-5) will be either the No.
The MSU volleyball team secured a five-game victory over Iowa on Friday night, but failed to ride the wave of momentum on Saturday, falling to No.
Juniors Nick Simmons and Andy Simmons won titles at 125 pounds and 141 pounds, respectively, at the Eastern Michigan Open on Saturday. The brothers from Williamston got identical 5-0 records as the MSU wrestling team kicked off the season. Four other wrestlers placed in their respective weight classes, including senior Darren McKnight (third place, 149 pounds), and freshman Nick Palmieri (197 pounds), redshirt freshmen Tim Hammer (141 pounds) and John Murphy (184 pounds). The Spartans host the MSU Open Nov.
There are still some question marks for the MSU men's basketball team as its regular season opener approaches.
West Lafayette, Ind. — All Drew Stanton could do was shake his head and shrug when asked about MSU's offensive struggles Saturday against Purdue's statistically awful defense. "I don't know," the junior quarterback said.
The MSU volleyball team will look to rebound from a pair of road losses last weekend when it hosts Iowa and No.