It's been a lot of traveling, sickness and road venues, but the Spartans are finally home. After winning five of their last six games — all of which were away from East Lansing — MSU plays its first games at Munn Ice Arena since Dec.
Despite all its recent success, the MSU women's basketball team has never opened the Big Ten season 4-0 under head coach Joanne P.
Sophomore forward Justin Abdelkader knew he wasn't at home, but he didn't expect every game at the 2007 World Junior Hockey Championships in Leksand, Sweden to feel like an away game.
Judging by the laughter from his teammates in Monday's press conference at Munn Ice Arena, junior defenseman Daniel Vukovic's CCHA Defensive Player of the Week award was somewhat unexpected.
Junior defenseman Daniel Vukovic was named CCHA Defensive Player of the Week for his first career time.
After about the four-minute mark of the MSU women's basketball team's loss to Maryland on Saturday, MSU head coach Joanne P.
Tom Izzo knew this year's team would struggle at times, but that doesn't mean he has to accept those struggles. Road losses to Iowa and Indiana put the Spartans in an 0-2 hole in the Big Ten, and Izzo is wondering what happened to the squad that played so well in the early portion of the season, when the Spartans topped Texas and hung tight with Maryland. "The last five games have not been played nearly as well as the first seven," Izzo said Monday in his weekly press conference.
Building a Northern Michigan hockey program from scratch. Two-time CCHA coach of the year. Two-time WCHA coach of the year. Two-time national coach of the year. One national championship. There aren't many more things for MSU head coach Rick Comley to accomplish, but he found one that wasn't on his list Saturday. Comley earned his 700th career victory with Saturday's 4-1 win at Miami (Ohio). He is the fifth NCAA Division I coach to accomplish this feat, joining former MSU coach Ron Mason, Jerry York, Bob Peters and Jack Parker. "It feels great, a number of that power," Comley said.
College Park, Md. — The opportunities for the MSU women's basketball team to make an impression against No.
Bloomington, Ind. — Not counting walk-ons, nine Spartans saw the floor in Sunday's game against Indiana.
Oxford, Ohio — The No. 10 MSU hockey team stayed in contention for the top CCHA spot by bouncing back from its 5-2 defeat against No.
Bloomington, Ind. — With a little more than a minute left in Sunday's 73-51 blowout loss to Indiana, MSU was subjected to an "overrated" chant that rang down from the bleachers in Assembly Hall.
With his face strained and muscles taut, senior wrestler Tony Greathouse scored a takedown in the final seconds of the fifth match to overcome Central Michigan's Andy Keller against the Chippewas on Friday night at Jenison Field House. But the Spartans' glory didn't last through the duration of the match. While Greathouse's takedown served as an exclamation point at the end of a dominant start for the Spartans, the No.
Playing its first game since head coach Mark Dantonio left for MSU, the Cincinnati football team defeated Western Michigan in the International Bowl on Saturday. MSU immediately fired Dantonio in hopes that it will also play better without him. Former MSU football head coach Nick Saban left the Miami Dolphins last week to assume the vacant coaching position at Alabama. MSU officials had reportedly made overtures to Saban to return to the Spartans, but their interest waned when Saban wouldn't stop laughing on the other end of the phone. An Air Force B-1B bomber will do a fly-over of University of Phoenix stadium just before the start of today's championship game. Bowl officials expect it to be the loudest noise in the stadium until Florida fans start calling for backup quarterback Tim Tebow in the second quarter. The Dallas Cowboys' postseason ended Saturday when quarterback Tony Romo botched the hold of a potential game-winning field goal in the game's final minutes. Reporters waited anxiously to ask Romo what went wrong on the failed play, but his answer was inaudible after he dropped the microphone on the ground. Miami Heat head coach Pat Riley, whose team has dropped five straight games since losing Dwyane Wade and Shaquille O'Neal to injury, underwent surgery on his right knee last week. Riley said doctors told him the surgery would sideline him until a few days after Wade and O'Neal return.
College Park, Md. — News flash: Maryland is pretty good. After stomping MSU, 97-57, on Saturday to remain undefeated, the Terrapins looked well on their way to another Final Four appearance and a chance to defend their national championship. After being outrebounded in their previous game against North Carolina State, Maryland came out with an aggressiveness that MSU had yet to see this season and took it to the Spartans on the glass, winning the rebounding battle by 24. "That was, I think, the second time in two years that we were outrebounded," Maryland head coach Brenda Frese said.
The city of Marquette still holds a special place in the heart of MSU hockey head coach Rick Comley. Not only did he coach at Northern Michigan from 1976 to 2002, but he was the first head coach in Wildcats history and was pivotally involved in the construction of their hockey rink. Comley's grandest coaching achievement with the Wildcats came in the 1990-91 season, when he guided the team to a 38-5-4 overall record and a national championship. This weekend, Comley will take his No.
MEN'S BASKETBALL Dec. 16 vs. Chicago State, 7 p.m. Dec. 19 vs. Belmont, 7 p.m. Dec.
As expected, football head coach Mark Dantonio named Pat Narduzzi as his defensive coordinator Wednesday. Narduzzi held the same position under Dantonio at Cincinnati from 2003-05.
Russ Cozart has been around high school wrestling for 27 years — long enough to know when he's got something special. When his son, Rocky, was 4 years old, Cozart knew Rocky could be in for an illustrious career. "When he was old enough to put on a singlet and basically try to push somebody down, he started wrestling," Russ said. A decade later, Rocky Cozart joined the wrestling team his dad coached at Brandon High School in Brandon, Florida. Two years later, Franklin Gomez transferred to the same school and joined the team. By the time the two graduated in 2005, they had combined for five national championships and four state championships.
Sophomore forward Justin Abdelkader will be temporarily trading in his green and white sweater for a red, white and blue one later this month. Abdelkader was selected Tuesday to represent Team USA at the 2007 International Ice Hockey Federation's World Junior Championships from Dec.