After a first half that saw 11th ranked Stanford basically do anything and everything it wanted, MSU field hockey easily could have been down more than one goal. But junior goalkeeper Molly Cassidy stepped up in the first half, before the rest of the team joined her in the second half, as the Spartans took home a 2-1 victory.
On a night where the offense couldn’t get going, Le’Veon Bell wouldn’t stop. The junior running back had a career-high 44 carries for 210 yards and two touchdowns, single-handedly lifting the No.
A quick start by junior quarterback Andrew Maxwell in his first career start quickly faded, with the No. 13 MSU football squandering an early lead and allowing No. 24 Boise State to take a 13-10 lead into the halftime locker room.
The MSU women’s basketball team knows where and when they will be playing next year, as the schedule for the 2012-13 season was released Friday.
No. 13 MSU vs. No. 24 Boise State Spartan Stadium Weather at kickoff: Sunny, 82°
With classes starting up, the MSU women’s soccer team only has one game this week, specifically so they can focus on getting settled into the regimen of the new school year. Head coach Tom Saxton said the team prides itself on having a good grade-point average, or GPA.
The MSU women’s soccer team will look to get back on a winning streak this weekend when they face off against Akron at 12 p.m. on Sunday.
After a productive weekend in Orono, Maine, the MSU field hockey team is back in East Lansing preparing for its first two home games of the young season. The Spartans take on Stanford on Friday, followed by Miami (Ohio) on Sunday.
Even with the dawn of football season mere hours away at MSU, the men’s basketball team has generated some excitement of its own with the release of its schedule for the 2012-13 season.
Lauren Wicinski wants to terminate people. And after three games this season, her new head coach Cathy George knows this much is true.
With just one day before the season opener, the No. 13 MSU football team’s highly hyped defense still has a few questions left to answer.
As the 2011 MSU men’s soccer season took off last year, a pair of its main competitors dropped like flies, leaving the front and back lines with gaping holes. Senior forward Domenic Barone and junior defender Kevin Cope both got struck with season-ending injuries before or just after the season began.
For the first time since Oct. 10, 2009, someone not named Kirk Cousins will take the first snap of the game for MSU’s season opener against Boise State on Friday night. After waiting in the reserves for three seasons, junior quarterback Andrew Maxwell is ready to take the reins and continue the success of his predecessor.
It’s been eight months and 27 days since Will Gholston stepped on a football field and hit a quarterback, and for the junior defensive end, there’s a hunger that needs to be satisfied.
The team looked to be off to a good start as the preseason drew to a close, defeating Duke 1-0 and tying Indiana University–Purdue University Fort Wayne, 1-1. But those two MSU preseason goals are the last they’ve managed.
With the completion of the annual Spartan Showcase tournament this past weekend at Jenison Field House, volleyball season officially is under way. The Spartans dominated, much as they have in the past, earning their ninth-straight Spartan Showcase title by defeating McNeese State, Youngstown State and Eastern Kentucky in the title match.
The No. 13 Spartans are three days from opening their season against No. 24 Boise State under the lights at Spartan Stadium, and for Dantonio, the excitement only is mounting.
Head coach Chris Petersen said the nationally televised matchup against the No. 13-ranked MSU football team (8:00 p.m., ESPN) will be one of the biggest challenges his team has faced in his six years as the Broncos’ head coach.
The final day of the MSU men’s soccer team’s (0-1-1) season-opening weekend kicked off with an MSU women’s soccer (3-1-0) game versus Cal State Fullerton. The women kept the game scoreless until halfway through the second half, when Cal State Fullerton netted one, finishing the game 1-0. Shortly after, the men took the field against the New Hampshire Wildcats (1-1-0), or UNH, meeting a similar fate as their female counterparts.