The frustration was building as the rain delay continued and Jessica Beech began walking around the Oosterbaan Fieldhouse, at the University of Michigan, to kill time before game one of the Big Ten tournament. For Beech, a senior pitcher, this was to be her last Big Ten tournament and maybe her last game if the Spartans couldn't beat the top seed U-M on its home field.
Tommy Hoke has been hired as the MSU football associate head strength and conditioning coach, replacing Aaron Wellman who took a position at Ball State in January. Hoke received a bachelor's degree in physical education from the University of North Carolina at Wilmington in 1990 and earned his master's degree from Appalachian State in 1993.
Two of MSU's hockey players, sophomore defenseman A.J. Thelen and junior forward David Booth, have been listed in the Central Scouting Service's top 37 U.S.
The MSU baseball team kept its hopes alive for a Big Ten title by winning its weekend series at Penn State after a 7-4 victory Sunday afternoon.
Idong Ibok, a 6-foot-10-inch basketball player from Montverde, Fla., signed a National Letter of Intent, May 5, to attend and play for MSU in the 2004-05 season.
Women's crew took fifth place with 303 points at the Central/Southern Regional Championship Sunday and placed fourth in the Central Region at the two-day event in Knoxville, Tenn.
MSU women's track and field hosts Central Michigan and Detroit Mercy today in the Michigan State Twilight. Field events begin at 5 p.m., followed by track competition at 6:30 p.m.
Troy Krider is about to enter the rivalry danger zone. As the Spartans' freshman shortstop, the Indiana native doesn't know much about the state battle between Michigan and MSU.
The MSU softball team's mental outlook all season long has been not placing any more or any less importance on one game. With that in mind, although the Spartans face intrastate rival Michigan at 6 p.m.
Division I 17 and 18-year-old ice-hockey players now can enter the NHL draft and still maintain college eligibility, the NCAA announced Wednesday. NCAA rules stated players less than 19 years of age were not able to enter the draft, slated for June 26-27.
The MSU women's tennis team ended its season Thursday with a 4-1 loss to Purdue in the first round of the Big Ten Women's Championship in Evanston, Ill. The No.
The No. 9 MSU men's tennis team fought through windy conditions and an early deficit to defeat rival No.
This weekend, Hayley Techner will return to her home state and have the opportunity to face the school she almost attended. Techner, a California native, is part of the MSU women's water polo team, which will compete at California Polytechnic (CPU) in San Luis Obispo, Calif., in the three-day National Collegiate Club Championship - the Olympics of water polo. For her, the meeting will be personal: Techner grew up in Santa Cruz, a mere two hours north of CPU.
The MSU men's tennis team played its best tennis of the conference season at the end of league play, and the Spartans hope to ride that momentum into the Big Ten tournament today. "You can just tell by the way people are walking and carrying themselves and also in the way that they're playing," senior Chris Mitchell said. The ninth-seeded Spartans (16-12 overall, 3-7 Big Ten) face the eighth-seeded Wolverines (13-8, 4-6) in the first round of the 2004 Big Ten Men's Tennis Championships today at 10 a.m.
Jessica Beech pitched four perfect innings on the mound and chalked up three strikeouts as the MSU softball team defeated Eastern Michigan, 5-1, on Wednesday. Sophomore catcher Elizabeth Peterson knocked in two runs for the Spartans in this nonconference game.
The MSU baseball team faces Eastern Michigan tonight at Oldsmobile Park, home of the Lansing Lugnuts. Each year, MSU plays a couple of contests at the stadium, so does playing at Oldsmobile Park ever lose its luster? "No, not at all," MSU manager Ted Mahan said.
By now, Jeff Smoker is a day away from departing to St. Louis to pursue a career in the NFL. With Smoker gone, a vacancy has been left in the MSU football team's lineup at quarterback, and three potential starters have submitted their résumés to head coach John L.
After the 2004 NFL Draft ended Sunday, two former Spartans were contacted by pro teams and will pursue careers in the NFL this weekend as free agents. Offensive guard Joe Tate has signed with the Jacksonville Jaguars, and linebacker Mike Labinjo is working on a deal with the Philadelphia Eagles. Tate said he has signed a free agent contract with the Jaguars for the league minimum. "It's great to get an opportunity to continue playing," he said.
The MSU softball team expected to sit higher than sixth place in the Big Ten at this point in the season.
Junior Aaron Leong decided playing college baseball shouldn't require a scholarship - or the NCAA. After discovering that MSU didn't have a club baseball team, Leong, a finance major, contacted the National Club Baseball Association and an MSU adviser and arranged to have the Spartans added to the Great Lakes North Conference. "I still wanted to play baseball, like a lot of guys out here, because our careers basically end after high school, unless you go to a small school," he said. "This is another way for us to keep playing baseball." Leong started the MSU Baseball Club with some of his friends in September, passed out fliers and received permission to conduct tryouts at Kobs Field. "About 30 guys tried out and we currently have 17 players," said Leong, who now is the club's president.