MSU head football coach Mark Dantonio announced Wednesday afternoon redshirt freshman running back Caulton Ray and sophomore running back Andre Anderson were removed from the team’s active roster.
Iowa might have left Spartan Stadium with a victory, but the win came at a cost.
Freshman forwards Olivia Stander and Kori Reinhart each have stepped in during key situations for the MSU women’s soccer team this season, filling in for numerous Spartans who have suffered from season-ending injuries.
The chip on the No. 20 MSU hockey team’s shoulder isn’t going away any time soon — even if it did beat the No. 1 team in the country Saturday.
After his team’s tough loss to Iowa, MSU football head coach Mark Dantonio decided to use the seven stages of grief to help himself get over Saturday’s 15-13 last-minute defeat.
After winning two games this weekend and capturing the program’s first-ever outright Big Ten championship, the No. 8 MSU field hockey team saw two of its players earn weekly honors from the conference for their efforts.
The Michigan High School Athletic Association announced Monday it has reached a two-year extension with Ford Field to keep the Michigan high school football championship games in Detroit through at least 2011.
For more than 58 minutes Saturday, the MSU football team shut down Ricky Stanzi. But as the Iowa quarterback’s offense took the field with 97 seconds remaining and 70 yards ahead of them, they saw something they previously didn’t see much of — a three-man MSU defensive front.
Isaiah Dahlman is knocking on wood. And after all the senior guard has been through, who can blame him?
Corey Tropp, a junior forward on the MSU hockey team, was named CCHA Offensive Player of the Week, the Big Ten announced.
Within 10 minutes, two MSU teams almost suffered identical fates. The news of the MSU football team’s heartbreaking loss on the last play of the game against Iowa made its way to Oxford, Ohio at 10:24 p.m.
With the Big Ten title on the line and its in-state rivals having just tied the score at one, the No. 8 MSU field hockey team looked to two of its key players to put together the go-ahead goal.
Mark Dantonio stood on the sidelines with a blank, almost bewildered look on his face. Several players lay on the field in the midst of a large Hawkeyes celebration. A frenzied Spartan Stadium crowd, at a fever pitch prior, was eerily silent.
The MSU men’s golf team finished in eighth place at the 15-team UNCG Bridgestone Golf Collegiate in Greensboro, N.C., this weekend, shooting a 7-over score of 871.
The No. 6 MSU women’s golf team closed out its fall season with a 10th place finish at the NCAA Preview at the Pete Dye Course at the Country Club of Landfall in Wilmington, N.C.
The MSU volleyball team had another close match this weekend, but were unable to stop a five-game slide in falling 3-2 at No. 9 Minnesota Friday.
Last season, the MSU field hockey team had a strong run and finished near the top of the Big Ten, but fell one step short of accomplishing all its goals. The Spartans finished second in the conference and lost one round short of reaching the Final Four.
A shot by Minnesota’s Tamara Strahota ricocheted off junior defender Samantha Cook and into the net, and it looked as though that fluke play would send the MSU women’s soccer team to yet another deflating loss.
The Big Bear Trophy was up for grabs Sunday afternoon. But the MSU men’s soccer team is returning it to its cage in the Spartans’ locker room, as they defeated Michigan 2-1 on Sunday at DeMartin Stadium at Old College Field.
Saturday’s men’s basketball Green and White game meant ditto in the win and loss column, but provided fans with a first-hand look at some of the team’s biggest story lines entering the season.