LANSING - Mateen Cleaves just can’t get away from the Lansing area.The former MSU star point guard signed autographs and posed for pictures with Spartan fans for an hour Friday at Meijer, 5125 W.
The honeymoon is over. After starting the season 3-0, MSU head football coach Bobby Williams suffered the first loss of his career, preventing him from becoming the first coach in school history to win the first four games of the season. Going 3-0 in his first season is still quite an accomplishment. The sports radio shows, magazines, Internet sites and newspapers - including this one - have finally begun to cease the constant comparisons and differences between him and former MSU coach and current Louisiana State leader Nick Saban. Some MSU fans haven’t. After a 37-17 clawing by the Northwestern Wildcats on Saturday, it was evident that there are some green and white faithful out there that are spoiled - spoiled from experiencing one of the greatest eras in Spartan athletics history last season.
While the MSU football team struggled to put points on the board versus Northwestern this weekend, the MSU men’s soccer team put up a season-high six goals Sunday in a 6-2 victory over the Wildcats.
Josh Shaw was tired, beaten and embarrassed moments after Northwestern invaded Spartan Stadium, racking up 506 yards of total offense Saturday.“I’m not used to getting beat like that,” the junior defensive lineman said of the 37-17 drubbing given to MSU.
The MSU volleyball team is on the road again this weekend for Big Ten games at Purdue and Illinois.After a disappointing loss last Friday to then No.
There are 500 package B tickets still available for the upcoming MSU hockey season at Munn Ice Arena.
After a three-game free fall, the MSU men’s soccer team is looking to pull its rip cord and land back on its feet after this weekend’s games versus Valparaiso and Northwestern.
Going into the fall season, women’s tennis head coach Tim Bauer is remaining optimistic even though his team will face an uphill climb.After finishing 2-14 overall and 0-10 in the Big Ten last year, Bauer only has four scholarship players out of 15 total athletes this season.“This is going to be a developmental year,” Bauer said.
Indiana University professor Murray Sperber - most famous for his role in the Bobby Knight saga at Indiana earlier this year, will visit campus today to sign copies of his new book, “Beer and Circus: How Big-time College Sports is Crippling Undergraduate Education.” Sperber, who has been an English and American studies professor at Indiana for 29 years, will be at the MSU Bookstore in the International Center from 4 p.m.
With last week’s games doused in craziness (see H for Haygood) and cheating (see M for Michigan or R for Referee), we’re back to predict week five in college pigskin.
The MSU women’s soccer team will play the latter half of a four-game road trip this weekend - a trip that claimed two players to ankle injuries last weekend.MSU (7-1-0 overall, 2-1-0 Big Ten), will look to prevent any further slide in conference play after a 2-1 defeat by Illinois last Sunday.
Jace Sayler is many things. He’s a two-year starter, a preseason All-Big Ten selection and one of the most meticulous athletes you’ll ever meet. But mainly he’s a family man.
In most professions, clotheslining, slamming and tossing fellow employees to the ground will get you fired.
MSU’s men’s basketball legacy became one man sweeter Sunday when Indianapolis guard and shooting sensation Chris Hill verbally committed to the Spartans for next fall.Hill, a 6-foot-3, 175-pound guard and honor roll student who averaged 17 points, five rebounds and four assists per game, led his Lawrence North Hill High School team to a 18-2 record his junior year.Hill spent the weekend with 2000 National Championship team members Mike Chappell and David Thomas, touring campus and attending the Notre Dame game.
Throughout the fourth quarter of Saturday’s MSU-Notre Dame game, a number of Spartans on the sideline were waving four fingers in the air.The gesture represents No.
In a game vs. two-time defending NCAA champions Indiana (6-3) that could have swung either way, the MSU men’s soccer team (4-3), found itself on the losing end of a controversial game.
The women’s golf team opened its season Sunday, with its only home match of the season at the Mary Fossum Invitational at Forest Akers West Golf Course.
Ask Herb Haygood what he brings to the team and the first thing he’ll say is speed. Even though the junior receiver was tied for second on the squad with seven receptions heading into the Notre Dame game Saturday, Haygood had not displayed his wheels in the first two games this year. So if there were any doubts about his claims, Haygood erased them Saturday as he bolted 68 yards upfield en route to scoring the game-winning touchdown with 1:48 remaining in MSU’s 27-21 win over Notre Dame. “Coach said big-time players make big-time plays in big-time games and I guess that’s a big play,” he said. With MSU losing 21-20 with just under eight minutes left in the game, Haygood said Notre Dame wasn’t heading home victorious. “I told someone earlier, ‘We’re not going to lose the game,’” he said.
Call it a house of heroes.Freshman quarterback Jeff Smoker shunned the boos he’d heard for much of the fourth quarter and hit Herb Haygood for a game-winning 68-yard touchdown reception.T.J.