Another football season has come and gone in East Lansing, and the Spartans, picked to finish third in the Big Ten this season, had a disappointing year, finishing 6-6 in regular season play and 4-4 in the Big Ten.
MSU head coach Mark Dantonio released a statement Tuesday afternoon announcing the dismissal of junior safety Roderick Jenrette and sophomore running back Glenn Winston from the team.
Heading into its final weekend of Big Ten play, the MSU volleyball team is expecting grind-it-out, physical contests in its last two games.
This season was a practice run for the MSU men’s soccer team. And it still went pretty well.
The script couldn’t have been drafted more suitably. The day MSU men’s basketball coach Tom Izzo tied his predecessor Jud Heathcote with 340 wins at MSU, the coach who led the Spartans to the 1979 national title was inducted into the College Basketball Hall of Fame in Kansas City, Mo.
For much of Sunday’s game between No. 6 MSU and No. 14 Notre Dame, the Spartans were a step slow. At times, MSU was on the cusp of making a charge but just couldn’t reach a loose puck. The Fighting Irish, however, made the most of their chances, scoring four times on 16 shots in a 4-1 win against the Spartans on Sunday at Allen County War Memorial Coliseum.
For 19 seniors, Saturday’s Senior Day at Spartan Stadium didn’t quite go as planned.
Although the Big Ten season is over, most of the conference’s bowl bids still are up in the air.
Allyssa DeHaan always gets the loudest ovations when the MSU women’s basketball team’s starting lineup is announced.
The MSU men’s soccer team scrapped, clawed and left everything on the field.
He’s a 15-year head coach with four National Coach of the Year Awards, an unprecedented five Final Fours in nine years, a national title and more than 300 wins to pad a Hall of Fame résumé.
Ahead 2-0 Saturday against No. 12 Minnesota, the MSU volleyball team was in position to earn a big victory and send its two seniors off happy in their final career home game.
Senior defender Tim Granaderos stood at the middle of the field with his hands on his head, soaking in every last moment.
It was the most unfitting of ends for the Spartans regular season.
Following Tuesday’s grind-it-out victory against Gonzaga, the No. 2 MSU men’s basketball perhaps showed some signs of let-up in Friday’s 75-62 victory against Toledo.
After receiving several quality performances in Wednesday’s 3-2 loss at No. 14 Michigan, the MSU volleyball team will hope to build off that showing but get a different result Saturday when it hosts No. 12 Minnesota in what is likely the team’s final home game of the season.
With the prevalence of the spread offense in college football, the fullback slowly is fading away from the football landscape. But while other Big Ten schools have decided not to utilize one, the fullback is a very important part of MSU’s offense. And senior Andrew Hawken is a big reason why.
It is winter 2006, and then-freshman kicker Brett Swenson is alone, playing in the snow. While his teammates are sweating in the indoor practice facility at the Duffy Daugherty Football Building, Swenson is clearing the snow outside and kicking field goals.
Memories of last year’s heartbreaking, season-ending loss in the second round of the NCAA Tournament still resonate in the minds of the MSU men’s soccer team.