FOOTBALL

Baker and McCoy sidelined; Knott in?

Justin A. Rice

August 27, 2001

With only two weeks before the season kicks off Sept. 8 against Central Michigan, the MSU football team has some holes to patch. The team took a big hit last week when senior tight end Chris Baker and senior linebacker Ivory McCoy both suffered long-term injuries during non-contact drills. Baker tore the meniscus cartilage in his left knee Aug.

FOOTBALL

What Big Ten football team will rise above the competition? Good question.

I don’t know what I’m doing. Usually I don’t admit so openly to that - I let the reader make that fairly obvious deduction based on my work. But now I’m charged with predicting the final order of finish of the Big Ten’s 11 football teams and I’m way overmatched. Have you seen these teams?