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Grapplers set for old feuds this weekend
When a wrestling team is ranked eighth in the nation, it usually isn’t the underdog in most of its matches.
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Backup wrestlers enjoy extra playing experience
They work their hardest in practice and push the starters to the limit every day. Then as match time approaches, they promptly sit and watch, hoping the next time it will be them on the mat trying to contribute to the eighth-ranked MSU wrestling squad in the same way their counterparts in practice do.
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Spartan hockey team prepares for rivalry with Wolverines
The Baltimore Ravens’ record-setting defense will get most of the national attention this Super Bowl weekend, but there’s also a dominant defensive crew based in East Lansing. The top-ranked Spartan hockey team (21-1-4 overall, 14-1-3 CCHA) has suffocated opposing offenses in 2001, allowing only one goal in seven games in the new year.
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Hoops ready for OSU rematch
With their first Big Ten road win behind them, the Spartans head into Columbus, Ohio on Saturday for a rematch with Ohio State.No.
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Detroit Shock will host hoop clinic at Breslin
Area kids, sports lovers and women’s athletic supporters alike will have a chance to shoot around with Detroit Shock power forward Wendy Palmer when she leads a basketball clinic from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m.
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Detroit Lions hire 49ers offensive coordinator for head coach
By LARRY LAGE The Associated Press Marty Mornhinweg, offensive coordinator for the San Francisco 49ers, was hired Wednesday to replace Gary Moeller as coach of the Detroit Lions. Mornhinweg was one of five coaches interviewed for the job since Matt Millen took over as president of the Lions earlier this month. Moeller, who took over in midseason for Bobby Ross, was fired to make way for Mornhinweg. The 38-year-old Mornhinweg reached an agreement with the team following a final interview Tuesday, said a football source who spoke on condition of anonymity. The Lions did not immediately schedule a news conference. According to www.ESPN.com, Mornhinweg agreed in principle to a five-year deal worth about $5 million and the Lions are expected to introduce him Thursday. Mornhinweg has spent the last four seasons as the 49ers’ offensive coordinator after two years as an offensive assistant and quarterbacks coach for the Green Bay Packers. Moeller was given a three-year contract when hired.
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Womens hoops get ready for old rival
Joanne P. McCallie heard stories about the rivalry between MSU and Michigan during her collegiate years at Northwestern.Today McCallie, the MSU women’s head basketball coach, will get her first real taste of just how bitter that rivalry can be.The Spartans (2-3 Big Ten, 8-9 overall) will host the Wolverines (4-4, 11-7) today at 8 p.m.
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Icer up for nations top award
In college football, the Heisman Trophy traditionally goes to the player who single-handedly makes his team great.College hockey’s equivalent, the Hobey Baker Memorial Award, might wind up in East Lansing at season’s end if sophomore goaltender Ryan Miller keeps up his amazing play.The East Lansing native is listed on USA Today’s 14-player Hobey Baker Watch and he is one of 40 players that advanced past the award’s first official cut-down earlier this month.The award presentation will take place April 6 at the Frozen Four in Albany, N.Y.“When they first mentioned the Hobey, I got really nervous,” Miller said.
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Mens hoops get ready for Wildcats, several away games
Holding only 8,117 fans, Northwestern’s Welsh-Ryan Arena looks more like a high school gym than a collegiate athletics center. But Charlie Bell knows it can provide just as deadly results against opponents. “It’s one of the tougher places to play,” the senior guard said.
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Womens hoops need support for game
For a moment, imagine you’re in the position of the MSU women’s basketball team. For months, you’ve been weight lifting, training and preparing for another unpredictable Big Ten season.
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U coach leaves
After six seasons as MSU football’s defensive secondary coach and one as the associate head coach, Mark Dantonio opted to leave the Spartans for the defensive coordinator position at Ohio State.“It was a very difficult decision to leave Michigan State,” Dantonio said in a prepared statement Monday.
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Cagers consider NBA
The only thing elevating more than Jason Richardson dunking over opponents this season could be his professional stock as an NBA prospect. Richardson is averaging 16 points, 6.1 rebounds and 2.6 assists this season and has scored in double figures in 14 of No.
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Icers prepare for LSSU rematch, goalie could break record
If the possibility of knocking off the No. 1 team in the nation isn’t enough motivation for Lake Superior State tonight at Munn Ice Arena, they will also have revenge on their minds. Nine days ago, top-ranked MSU (20-1-4 overall, 13-1-3 CCHA) looted the Lakers on their home ice and stole four CCHA points from Sault Ste.
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Grapplers dominate matches, ready for tough battles ahead
The MSU wrestling team rebounded from a tough loss last week at Oklahoma State with convincing victories over Division II Findlay (Ohio) and Grand Valley State.
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Gridders recruiting new talent
In the first few weeks of the new year, MSU football has made a push to boost its 2001 recruiting class.News of their most recent addition came Tuesday when Robert Strickland, a four-star wide receiver out of Detroit’s Denby High School, verbally committed to the Spartans.Strickland, a 6-foot-4, 205-pound senior is ranked the twenty-ninth best wide receiver in high school football by popular recruiting publication www.rivals.com.
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Super Bowl may turn out super boring performance
CBS has a good reason to be a little worried about televising Super Bowl XXXV.This year’s Super Bowl has the potential to be the “Super Bore.”The New York Giants versus the Baltimore Ravens doesn’t really send people frantically rushing to television sets.
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Nail brings more goals
John Nail’s surname used to be a good indication of his style of play on the ice - tough.But somewhere along the way, the senior right wing developed an effective scoring touch that has almost caused fans to forget about his hard-nosed reputation.He leads the top-ranked Spartans in game-winning goals with five, ranks second on the team with 11 total tallies and recorded his first career hat trick Saturday night against Miami.“It was a lucky night for me, I guess,” Nail said.
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Randolph steps up
It only took freshman center Zach Randolph less than five minutes of play in Sunday’s win over Ohio State to realize it would be a crash course in “Humility 101.” Luckily the McDonald’s High School All-American earned a passing grade.After connecting on his first shot - a layup from sophomore forward Adam Ballinger - Randolph received a look from freshman guard Marcus Taylor two feet from the rim, only to see it smacked away by Buckeyes center Ken Johnson.
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U ready for OSU
Injuries to seniors Andre Hutson and Mike Chappell will force MSU to go deeper into its bench Sunday against Ohio State.The No.
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Hockey prepares to faceoff against Miami (Ohio)
It’s been six years since a team has swept a series from MSU at Munn Ice Arena.But Miami, the most recent team to accomplish the feat, will be gunning for a repeat this weekend.In February 1995, the RedHawks stormed into Munn and departed with 1-0 and 3-2 wins, but this year’s Spartans (18-1-4 overall, 11-1-3 CCHA) are ranked No.