The MSU women's golf team has a big task on its hands this weekend. Not only are the Spartans hosting the Big Ten Championships at Forest Akers West Golf Course, they come in ranked second in the Big Ten and 22nd in the nation. "Our team is really comfortable," senior Rachel Meikle said.
I'm a storyteller. It's what I do. So as I tell my final one for The State News after five semesters here, I should know exactly how it's supposed to go, right? The truth is, there's no way to articulate how fortunate I feel to have been part of this paper, this campus and, in whatever small way, your lives the last three years. My job has given me so many opportunities I never thought I'd have.
Raymar Morgan takes a pass along the left baseline, then hurtles toward the basket like a runaway train.
The men's golf team was in Columbus, Ohio, just two weeks ago finishing second in the Kepler Invitational.
It's not time to hit the panic button yet, but the MSU baseball team has drastically shrunk its margin for error the last two weeks. Since a heartbreaking final-inning defeat to Penn State on April 15, the Spartans (15-18 overall, 6-9 Big Ten) have lost seven straight games, including a four-game sweep at the hands of Minnesota last weekend.
They got 'em on. They just couldn't bring 'em home. The MSU softball team stranded 12 runners on base during Wednesday's nonconference matchup with Central Michigan, and it cost them dearly.
The MSU baseball team will look to end a six-game losing streak when it hosts Central Michigan at 5:05 p.m.
Former MSU women's basketball coach Joanne P. McCallie canceled a Tuesday press conference with the MSU media.
After beating the Tri-City Storm 5-3 on April 7, the Sioux Falls Stampede were just on another long bus ride home.
Hockey lovers and State News sports writer Matt Bishop and sports editor Eric Fish took time to talk about the Red Wings' playoff run. Question: Your feelings on the Calgary Flames being eliminated by the Red Wings? Matt Bishop: Personally, it was great to see such a classless, joke of a playoff team like Calgary booted out in front of its own fans.
Matt Harmon has been on a roll lately. The senior golfer has made the most out of the spring golf season, finishing all four spring events in the top 10, including back-to-back first-place finishes at the Kepler Invitational two weeks ago and the Fossum/Spartan Invitational last weekend. As the lone senior on the squad, Harmon's play has catapulted the MSU men's golf team into a great position as it prepares for the Big Ten Championship this weekend. "This team has really impressed me," Harmon said.
The MSU men's golf team won the Fossum/Spartan Invitational, hosted by MSU at Forest Akers West Golf Course, for the first time in 15 years. The Spartans won by 14 strokes and had a 54-hole total of 841, good for 23 strokes under par. MSU's Matt Harmon and Jack Newman were part of a three-way tie, along with Xavier's Jason Kokrak, for top medalist honors.
At 6-foot-6 and 254 pounds, senior Kellen Davis has the prototypical frame of an NFL tight end. But he has yet to put together a breakout season in his three years at MSU, totaling 28 catches for 276 yards and three touchdowns in 29 career games. That all may change under the new coaching staff, which makes an effort to involve the tight end in the offense and use the run to open up the pass. "I definitely feel like I'm going to be utilized more," said Davis, who caught a touchdown pass for the Green team in Saturday's scrimmage.
Chicago Bears linebacker Brian Urlacher was fined $100,000 last week for wearing a cap during Super Bowl media day that promoted a sponsor not authorized by the league.
The White team came into Saturday's Green-White intrasquad game beaming with confidence. The players boasted, "Our team is stacked!
The Joanne P. McCallie era came to a bitter end at MSU, leaving a bad taste in the mouths of a lot of people, including myself, but we must not forget what she accomplished and the new heights the program reached under her lead. When McCallie came to East Lansing on March 27, 2000, the program had accomplished little on the national stage. Fast-forward five years, and McCallie had her team in the national championship game.
Spring practice commenced one month ago today for the MSU football team, beginning the first true phase of Spartans football under new head coach Mark Dantonio.
Luckily for MSU women's golf head coach Stacy Slobodnik-Stoll, junior Sara Brown paid a visit to MSU in the summer. Brown, a native of Tucson, Ariz., developed such a good relationship with Slobodnik-Stoll that she looked past Michigan's various weather patterns and gave up the sun-drenched desert for the Green and White. "Our personalities got along great from the first time that I talked to her on the phone," Brown said.
Although the departure of women's basketball coach Joanne P. McCallie was a sudden shock to the MSU community, officials and team members aren't panicking. "We're going to get a good coach in here, we've got great facilities," Trustee George Perles said.
Both the men's and women's golf teams know the time to make a statement is now. And with this being the last weekend before the Big Ten Championships, they have to. The No.