With the prevalence of the spread offense in college football, the fullback slowly is fading away from the football landscape. But while other Big Ten schools have decided not to utilize one, the fullback is a very important part of MSU’s offense. And senior Andrew Hawken is a big reason why.
It is winter 2006, and then-freshman kicker Brett Swenson is alone, playing in the snow. While his teammates are sweating in the indoor practice facility at the Duffy Daugherty Football Building, Swenson is clearing the snow outside and kicking field goals.
Memories of last year’s heartbreaking, season-ending loss in the second round of the NCAA Tournament still resonate in the minds of the MSU men’s soccer team.
The MSU Residential and Hospitality Services and Athletics Department are co-sponsoring the Help Tackle Hunger Food Drive, which runs through Saturday’s MSU-Penn State game.
This is prognosticators comin’ at you like a mob of sorority girls at a Victoria’s Secret sale. Except maybe less scary.
The MSU men’s golf team announced two student-athletes signed National Letters of Intent for the 2010-11 season.
A lot is on the line when MSU and No. 13 Penn State meet for the Land Grant Trophy on Saturday at Spartan Stadium. In what has become an increasingly important game each year as the Spartans return to respectability under head coach Mark Dantonio, MSU is looking to pick up the all-important seventh victory — a win that would secure a winning season, regardless of what happens in a bowl game.
The MSU women’s basketball team announced that sophomore forward Courtney Schiffauer will miss the remainder of the season after tearing the anterior cruciate ligament in her right knee Tuesday.
Centerman Lee Reimer (Landmark, Manitoba) and goaltender Willie Yanakeff (Jerome, Mich.) signed letters of intent Wednesday to join MSU for the team’s 2010 campaign.
The treacherous month of November rolls on for the No. 6 MSU hockey team. The Spartans will host No. 14 Notre Dame tonight and travel to Fort Wayne, Ind., on Sunday to face the Irish in a neutral barn, marking the third straight series for the Spartans against a team ranked in the top 15.
The MSU wrestling program announced Wednesday that six student-athletes signed National Letters of Intent to wrestle for the Spartans in the 2010-11 season.
The Spartans welcome Penn State to Spartan Stadium on Saturday (3:30 p.m., ABC) in a game that has major bowl implications. The outcome of the game will affect almost every bowl-eligible Big Ten team.
It’s easy to be friends on the ice. It’s the players’ jobs to work together, communicate and stick up for each other.
Junior guard Durrell Summers hit the go-ahead 3-pointer to become the hero. In the waning minutes of the game, junior guard Kalin Lucas stepped up and made an acrobatic layup to extend the lead.
Despite taking No. 14 Michigan to five sets Wednesday, the MSU volleyball team fell short against its in-state rivals, 3-2.
Despite the season only being two games old, the No. 21 MSU women’s basketball team already has seen its fair share of adversity.
It’s one thing to sneak into the NCAA Tournament. But it’s completely different to receive a first-round bye and play a home game in the second round.
Of all the players who have made big plays for the Spartans in 2009, sophomore receiver Keshawn Martin is at the top of the list.
If you told players on the MSU hockey team at the beginning of the season they would be the No. 6 ranked team in the country in the middle of November, they wouldn’t have believed you.