It’s been eight months and 27 days since Will Gholston stepped on a football field and hit a quarterback, and for the junior defensive end, there’s a hunger that needs to be satisfied.
The No. 13 Spartans are three days from opening their season against No. 24 Boise State under the lights at Spartan Stadium, and for Dantonio, the excitement only is mounting.
Head coach Chris Petersen said the nationally televised matchup against the No. 13-ranked MSU football team (8:00 p.m., ESPN) will be one of the biggest challenges his team has faced in his six years as the Broncos’ head coach.
Surrounded by the trophies and accomplishments of past Spartan teams, head coach Mark Dantonio announced junior quarterback Andrew Maxwell, junior linebacker Max Bullough and senior linebacker Chris Norman will serve as the team’s captains going into the 2012 season.
Blaring Norman Greenbaum’s “Spirit In The Sky” — recalling memories of “Remember The Titans” — the MSU football team took to the practice field Friday morning for its final day of two-a-day practices during fall camp. And after two weeks of practice, things are beginning to fall into place for the Spartans.
When MSU football head coach Mark Dantonio took the podium Tuesday evening at the “Meet the Spartans,”, talk of going to the Rose Bowl was on the tip of his tongue. “We continue to raise our goals as we move forward,” he said to the crowd.
Picking up right where they left off last season, the Spartan defense stole the show Sunday during MSU’s first jersey scrimmage of training camp by claiming a 74-54 victory over the offense using a modified scoring system.
In the case of junior safety Isaiah Lewis, it’s easy to wonder, “What if?” What if the referee in the inaugural Big Ten championship game last year didn’t flag him for running into the punter? What if he wasn’t instructed to go for the block? What if he had gotten a clean block and the Spartans had scooped up an easy touchdown to take the lead late in the game?
Speed. Size. Knowledgeable. Physical. Those are the words sophomore wide receiver Tony Lippett used to describe himself and the rest of the wideouts who enter this season with little to no experience.
Forty-six stretch. That was the play that permanently etched senior running back Larry Caper’s name into MSU football lore.
Junior quarterback Andrew Maxwell wants you to know he’s his own man. He isn’t going to try to be someone he’s not, replace any one player or step into another man’s shoes. Still, when his teammates look at him, they can’t help but be reminded of someone else.
As William Gholston sat at media day on Monday, swarmed by reporters and asked about the expectations for a defense that finished sixth in the country in total defense a year ago, the junior defensive end couldn’t help but smile.
Former MSU football player Devin Thomas announced his retirement from the NFL on Sunday, in a somewhat surprising move, considering Thomas’ age and recent contract with the Chicago Bears.
With every crunch of the pads and swig from the water bottles, it was clear football was back in session at the MSU football team’s opening practice of the season Saturday.
Under sunny skies and the ongoing construction of a new scoreboard across the street at Spartan Stadium, the MSU football team opened with its first practice of the 2012 season Saturday afternoon.
As the MSU football team begins training camp this weekend, it will do so knowing it’s one of the 15 best teams in the country, according to the preseason USA TODAY Coaches Poll released Thursday.
A series of four GameDay Parking apps hits Apple’s iTunes App Store Wednesday to assist sports fans in finding the closest and cheapest available parking on football game days.
Junior snapper Steve Moore’s football career has ended due to an injury. According to a release from the athletics department, Moore fractured his C4 vertebra Saturday after jumping from the back of a boat and hitting a sandbar.
A little after 9 a.m. Monday, the entire landscape of college football was hit with a seismic shift so powerful it can’t be quantified — yet — when the NCAA announced its penalties to the Penn State football program resulting from the Jerry Sandusky scandal.
A pool of 24 media members that cover the conference — including the Lansing State Journal’s Joe Rexrode and the Detroit News’ Matt Charboneau, among others — were polled and have chosen Michigan as the favorite to capture the Big Ten crown this fall.