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Spartans fail to sweep first season series
The MSU hockey team failed to earn its first series sweep of the season Saturday, as it fell, 4-2, at Ohio State.
ICE HOCKEY
Yanakeff propels Spartans to 2-0 win at Ohio State
Freshman goalie Will Yanakeff’s fifth consecutive win led the MSU hockey team to a 2-0 victory against Ohio State on Friday.
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Spartans look to perform better against Wisconsin
One day after the MSU’s 72-52 loss to Iowa — a loss head coach Tom Izzo called “embarrassing” — the Spartans had the day off from practice. Instead, with a game at Wisconsin looking on Sunday, they gathered at the Alfred Berkowitz Basketball Complex for three hours of meetings. “We just met and talked about what we wanted to do,” junior forward Delvon Roe said.
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Lucious visiting Iowa State
Recently-dismissed junior guard Korie Lucious is in Ames, Iowa visiting Iowa State.
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Spartans need overtime to beat Badgers, 73-70, in Wisconsin
The scene was set for a night to remember for Badger fans, defeating one of the best teams in the country, remaining in a tie for first place in the Big Ten and allowing head coach Lisa Stone to celebrate her 500th career victory.
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The Odd Couple
About two and a half months ago, the MSU men’s basketball team had a team evaluation meeting. Players were told areas they needed to work on. Sophomore center Derrick Nix decided to write down the needed improvements and hang them above his locker so he remembered.
SPORTS
Bird makes presence felt on mat
With 32 athletes and four coaches, the MSU wrestling team has made room on its roster for one additional purple, blue and yellow member of the team. Indigo — head coach Tom Minkel’s colorful hyacinth macaw — attends wrestling practice most days of the week and has become a valuable member of the MSU wrestling family.
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Spartans look to move up CCHA standings with wins against Ohio State
Moving up the CCHA standings has been about as difficult as walking through a snowdrift as several quality teams occupy the middle of the conference. Moving up will be the MSU hockey team’s objective, however, when they visit Ohio State for a series this weekend to try to climb out of 10th place in the CCHA and continue a 5-3-1 run in its past nine games.
SPORTS
Gymnasts seek revenge against Broncos this weekend
After losing to Western Michigan earlier this season for the first time in program history, the MSU gymnastics team has had two weeks off to prepare for the meet against its new in-state rival on Sunday in Kalamazoo. “They beat us for the first time ever in the history of MSU and Western gymnastics in January right after (senior gymnast Kathryn Mahoney’s) injury, and that didn’t feel so good,” head coach Kathie Klages said.
FOOTBALL
Over saturation looms for song if Steelers win
Most years, if my team isn’t in the Super Bowl then I watch with no rooting interest. This year, however, thanks to one unsuspected source, when Sunday rolls around and Super Bowl XLV kicks off, I will be all in for the Green Bay Packers. Now I know I’m not alone, and leading up to Sunday’s game most people are expressing their distaste toward Steeler Nation.
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Spartans appear to have given up
After the MSU men’s basketball team lost to Michigan for the first time in three years last Thursday, I wrote that it couldn’t get any worse for the 2010-11 Spartans. A little less than one week later, it’s pretty obvious I jumped the gun with that conclusion.
BASKETBALL
Spartans routed by Hawkeyes, 72-52
The Hawkeyes (9-13 overall, 2-8 Big Ten) pounded MSU (13-9, 5-5), 72-52, in Iowa City, Iowa on Wednesday night.
FOOTBALL
Spartans sign 21 in 2011 football recruiting class
MSU football head coach Mark Dantonio called his fifth recruiting class maybe the best one he’s had since he became the head man.
WOMEN'S BASKETBALL
Spartans set to take on Badgers
The No. 11 MSU women’s basketball team is fully rested after a full week off and ready to return to the court when it travels to Wisconsin on Thursday. The Spartans (18-3 overall, 6-2 Big Ten) travel to Kohl Center where the Badgers (12-9, 7-2) haven’t lost a game since Dec.
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Men's basketball game against Iowa still on
Despite a major snow storm across the Midwest, the MSU men’s basketball team’s game against Iowa will be played as scheduled, with an 8:30 p.m.
ICE HOCKEY
Icers look to solve inconsistencies
Head coach Rick Comley believes the key to fixing the MSU hockey team’s inconsistencies this season revolves around one thing: scoring early goals. The Spartans (11-13-4 overall, 7-11-2 CCHA) lately have tallied four or more goals in games where they’ve generated an early goal and scored fewer than two in games they haven’t tallied one in the first period. Last weekend, MSU managed to go 1-1 against No.
SPORTS
Sean McMurray propels MSU wrestlers to win against No. 14 Illinois
After taking an early lead, the MSU wrestling team saw it evaporate in an instant. Losing back-to-back-to-back duals in overpowering fashion, the Spartans trailed No.
FOOTBALL
Roushar named offensive coordinator
MSU football announced Tuesday that offensive line coach Dan Roushar will be promoted to offensive coordinator one month after former coordinator Don Treadwell took the head coaching job at Miami (Ohio).
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Spartans prep for new-look Hawkeyes
After traveling through a snowstorm to take on Iowa at 8:30 p.m. Wednesday in Iowa City, Iowa, the MSU men’s basketball team will be welcomed by a new-look Hawkeyes team. Typically a team that prefers to milk every second of the shot clock before firing a shot, first-year head coach Fran McCaffery has Iowa playing a slightly different style. “They’re more up and down,” MSU senior guard Kalin Lucas said.
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Spartans have target on backs in Big Ten
Throughout the last decade of Tom Izzo’s tenure as head coach of the MSU men’s basketball team, the Spartans arguably have become the most feared program in the Big Ten. However, fresh off two-straight conference championships, MSU finds itself in an unusual position this year — struggling in the middle of the Big Ten.