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Sports | Football

FOOTBALL

Reign of terror over, Spartans now in charge

State News football reporter Jeremy Warnemuende writes that Michigan’s arrogance must come to an end now that the Spartans have taken over the rivalry in the annual State News-Michigan Daily dueling columns

FOOTBALL

Spartan defense must slow down explosive Robinson

As the No. 17 MSU football team prepares for in-state rival No. 18 Michigan, all eyes are on U-M quarterback Denard Robinson. On Saturday, the Wolverines will meet an MSU defense that is coming off its best performance of the season in a 34-24 win against Wisconsin, in which it tackled well and held Wisconsin’s power rushing attack to 165 yards.

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Spartans shift focus to rivalry game vs. Michigan

It didn’t take long for MSU senior linebacker Greg Jones to start thinking about Saturday’s game against No. 18 Michigan. As time was winding down in No. 17 MSU’s 34-24 win against No. 20 Wisconsin on Saturday, Jones already had begun preparing for the Spartans’ biggest rival.

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Blood clot forces Dantonio to miss game

After being admitted to Lansing’s Sparrow Hospital on Thursday for a blood clot discovered in his leg, football head coach Mark Dantonio was not in Spartan Stadium Saturday for No. 17 MSU’s 34-24 win against No. 20 Wisconsin. Dantonio’s release date from Sparrow Hospital has yet to be determined, but Athletics Director Mark Hollis said the head coach has and will remain in contact with the team.

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Earning respect

After having its ability questioned for the majority of the season, the MSU defense stepped up in a big way Saturday, shutting down then-No. 11 Wisconsin in a 34-24 victory.

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Finding his place

In a career that already had undergone a major change, Keith Nichol didn’t know at the time that his hustle play at the end of the Oct. 10, 2009 game against Illinois would set off a series of events that would lead to a more unlikely change.

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Sims pleads guilty to charges

Sophomore tight end Dions Sims pleaded guilty this morning at the Frank Murphy Hall of Justice in Detroit on charges of receiving and concealing stolen property, said Maria Miller, Wayne County assistant prosecuting attorney. Sims alledgedly was involved in an organized operation to steal and sell 104 computers, valued at $158,000, from Detroit Public Schools.