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Fonoti, Jackson return to football team fully recovered from injuries
Fou Fonoti and Travis Jackson are looking forward to getting back on the field with their brothers.
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Seniors set sights high going into final spring practice period of their careers
When the MSU football team put their helmets on for the first time of the spring practice season Tuesday afternoon, it reminded Mike Sadler of a feeling he had in 2010.
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Top 5 football story lines to watch this spring
With MSU football opening spring practice Tuesday, there are questions abound on both sides of the ball as the Spartans look to rebound from a disappointing 7-6 season in 2012.
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Football spring practice starts, open positions seek players
Entering his seventh spring as head football coach, the goals largely remain the same for Mark Dantonio and the MSU football team.
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Spartans prepare for NFL Draft
Le’Veon Bell remembers a video from when he was 5 years old where he told his mom and aunt he wanted to play professional football.
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Face Time: Jerel Worthy at MSU football pro day
Former MSU defensive tackle Jerel Worthy was in East Lansing on Wednesday afternoon watching nine of his old teammates workout for NFL scouts during MSU football’s annual Pro Day event.
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Column: Harris’ comment accurate, MSU football isn’t elite
It’s not uncommon in a bitter breakup for people to say hurtful things they don’t mean. But usually, the most painful pill to swallow is when the elephant in the room is harshly and bluntly stated as a matter of fact.
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Warner, Bollman express optimism, excitement about season ahead
Following a reshuffling of the MSU football coaching staff, new co-offensive coordinators Dave Warner at a Breslin Center news conference and Jim Bollman via speakerphone met with members of the media Tuesday to discuss the new-look staff.
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Bollman hired as MSU co-offensive coordinator, tight ends coach
MSU officially announced the hiring of Jim Bollman and internal changes to the Spartan football staff on Monday in a press release.
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Reports: MSU to hire former Ohio State coordinator as Roushar replacement
Former Ohio State offensive coordinator Jim Bollman is set to become MSU football’s next offensive coordinator, according to multiple reports citing anonymous sources. MSU has yet to officially confirm the hire. Bollman previously accepted the offensive line coach position at Purdue this off-season after serving as offensive line coach and run game coordinator at Boston College in 2012. MSU head coach Mark Dantonio and Bollman worked together as assistants under former Spartan coach Nick Saban from 1995-97 and again at Ohio State under Jim Tressel.
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Former Spartans try to increase draft stock at NFL Combine
The 2013 NFL Scouting Combine came to a close yesterday with the last group of players concluding their tests, and the four former MSU players invited to Indianapolis seem to have performed rather well.
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Top picks head to NFL Combine
The first player from MSU to hear his name called in the 2013 NFL Draft likely will have to wait until the second or third day, according to the NFL Network’s Mike Mayock.
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Roushar to leave MSU, take job with New Orleans Saints
Dan Roushar has accepted the job as running backs coach for the NFL’s New Orleans Saints and will be leaving the program, according to a release by the MSU athletics department.
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Roushar to interview for New Orleans Saints running backs coaching spot
Dan Roushar hasn’t always been the most popular man in town and, according to a new report, he might not be in town much longer.
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MSU football names new defensive line coach: Ron Burton
Two weeks after announcing Ted Gill wouldn’t be returning as the Spartans’ defensive line coach, the MSU football team has found its man.
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Column: Dantonio excited by 2013 recuiting class
The annual jubilation and enthusiasm surrounding national signing day — the day when college football’s biggest recruits sign letters of intent — swept optimism across the sport’s biggest fan bases Wednesday.
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Players to watch from the 2013 recruiting class
National signing day on Wednesday marked the official start of 18 high schoolers’ journeys as MSU football players. As with essentially every class in head coach Mark Dantonio’s tenure, the national recruiting analysts have pegged the Spartans’ 2013 class somewhere near the mid 30s in terms of national rankings.
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Dantonio “very excited” about new players, class ranks 39th in country
National signing day is one of the only times each year when the fax machine is once again relevant, and the hopes of an entire fan base are on the shoulders of a teenager.
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Expectations high for incoming quarterback Damion Terry
Football is Damion Terry’s life — his obsession. Those are his words.
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MSU football inks 2013 recruiting class
MSU football signed its 2013 recruiting class Wednesday. See highlights of each of MSU’s incoming recruits here.