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SPORTS

Deacon coaching team as student assistant

Despite finishing up her NCAA eligibility last season, former MSU field hockey player Jeamie Deacon has stayed with the program. Deacon is acting as a student-assistant coach while she finishes up her education. She plans to graduate in December with a civil engineering degree.

FOOTBALL

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.

SPORTS

The NFL's good, bad and ugly: Week 4

In week two, I described the 2010 NFL season as chaotic, with the so-called best NFL teams falling early. Now, just two weeks later, I don’t even have a word to describe it.

FOOTBALL

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.

FOOTBALL

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.