While the drunken Twitter rant provided by former Michigan State basketball player Garrick Sherman on May 27 was entertaining for all who saw, it could be indicative of a larger issue of the collegiate sports landscape.
MSU will send 10 entries to the Men’s and Women’s Outdoor Track and Field Championships in Eugene, Ore. This is the most entries to date under ninth-year program director Walt Drenth.
MSU Hockey head coach Tom Anastos announced on May 29 that defenseman Josh Jacobs would not be returning for the 2015-2016 season, instead choosing to pursue professional interests elsewhere.
Former Michigan State big man Garrick Sherman revealed a lot about his time in East Lansing on Wednesday through a series of drunken tweets.
The MSU baseball team was a strong contender for the NCAA tournament but unfortunately didn’t make the cut after losing four of its five last games. The Spartans finished the season with a record of 34-23 and an RPI ranking of 51, according to D1Baseball.
The Spartans were the first to get a hit registered when senior infielder Ryan Richardson hit a single to lead off the second.
Through two games of the Big Ten tournament, the Spartans are 1-1 with their toughest game looming. MSU opened the tournament with a 2-1 loss to Maryland on Wednesday.
MSU head football coach Mark Dantonio has been ranked the No. 3 coach in college football, according to The Sporting News' new rankings, which included all 128 FBS football coaches across the country.
Redshirt freshman track and cross country runner Max Benoit crossed the finish line at the 2015 Big Ten Outdoor Track and Field Championships, immediately went to all fours and laid on his back. He was exhausted.
While spectators see the effort athletes put in on competition day, Ehrhardt said it’s important to realize there are countless hours of training spent beyond that, all in an effort to be competitive in each and every individual event. At times, Ehrhardt also said it can be difficult to find a balance when training for all the events, as it can sometimes take an entire month to get just one of the 10 events down. ap
After a less than ideal start to the season, the MSU baseball team dug themselves out of an early hole going 21-8 to finish the regular season 33-21 overall and 14-10 in the Big Ten.
As MSU senior track star Leah O'Connor rounded the corner and head into the homestretch of the 5,000 meter finals at the 2015 Big Ten Track and Field Championships on Sunday, the hometown crowd at Ralph Young Field in East Lansing, Michigan rose to its feet and roared. They'd seen and heard a lot from her this weekend. O'Connor won the race and crossed the finish line in a time of 16:03.98, and that was it. She'd done it.
After day two, the MSU men's and women's track and field teams continue to impress at the 2015 Big Ten Track and Field Championships.
It's not often a college sports team gets to play their team's conference championship on their home turf.
It was a busy week for MSU football on the recruiting trails as the Spartans added five new verbal commitments to the class of 2016.
The Spartan baseball team (31-19 overall, 13-8 Big Ten) took two of three game against Penn State (18-28 overall, 6-14 Big Ten) over the weekend for the teams fifth straight Big Ten series win.
For the 49th consecutive year a former MSU football player heard their name called on NFL draft night. This year started off similar to last years draft as a Spartan cornerback was taken in the first round.
MSU women’s golf will miss out on the NCAA Tournament this season, despite a fourth place finish at the Big Ten championships last weekend.
In his sophomore year of high school, Russell Byrd had offers from schools like Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio State, Michigan State, and plenty of others to play basketball for them.