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He gave up playing time at other schools to come to MSU without the promise of a scholarship. He's played in one game since. He's Tommy Vento, and taking one for the team is what he does best.
The MSU men’s soccer team dropped a close one on Sunday, in which they hosted Big Ten rival, Ohio State at DeMartin Stadium. The Spartans fell to Ohio State 2-1 in what is basically the half way mark of the season.
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The highly-touted high school basketball prospect Miles Bridges has made his decision. Bridges, the ESPN 100 eighth ranked player in the class of 2016, will become a MSU Spartan. [ tweet ] Bridges, listed on ESPN at 6-foot-6, 225 pounds, is a scout-rated five star recruit who played his high school basketball in West Virginia at Huntington Prep.
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The MSU field hockey team put on quite the performance in front of players from the program's past on Friday at Ralph Young Field when conference-competitors Rutgers came to East Lansing.
MSU head basketball coach Tom Izzo talked to the media on Friday and intends to take the program to the next level.
Men’s basketball coach Tom Izzo announced sophomore guard Lourawls ‘Tum Tum’ Nairn Jr., senior forward Matt Costello and senior guard Denzel Valentine as the 2015-16 team captains today. Izzo said each year the captains are selected in a different fashion, but this year the players voted. “It was voted on this time, you know every year I do it a little differently to be honest with you, and they all got a lot of votes but you know (Valentine) got every vote on the team.
Watch as our football reporters preview the game between No. 2-ranked MSU (4-0 overall) and Purdue (1-3 overall). The spread is +21.5 in favor of MSU.
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The men's soccer flexed their muscles with two road wins in which the offence looked quite nice. MSU routed Rutgers 3-1 last Friday and topped Bowling Green 1-0 in Tuesday's contest.
If there’s any green paint left over from the “green line” experiment at Munn Ice Arena, MSU Hockey might just want to use it to scrawl “NCAA Tourney or Bust” on the walls of the locker room. That was the sentiment from many of the players during MSU Hockey Media Day Wednesday at Munn Ice Arena.
MSU has changed the name of its fight song from “MSU Fight Song” to “Victory For MSU,” Director of the Spartan Marching Band, John Madden, said.
Here are five things to know before the Spartans (4-0) face Purdue (1-3) in the 100th homecoming football game at noon on Saturday.
When No. 2-ranked MSU (4-0 overall) takes the field this weekend against Purdue (1-3 overall) it will be the first Big Ten game of the season, but also something more. Saturday marks the 100th edition of the annual Homecoming game for the Spartans. “We talk in terms of Michigan State football and tradition and tradition around this country, Michigan State is one of those places that has a great tradition,” Dantonio said.
MSU basketball forward Kenny Goins has undergone a successful sports hernia surgery and is expected to be out of action for six weeks, the team announced Wednesday. Goins is coming into this season on scholarship after being redshirted as a preferred walk-on last year. Preseason practices for the Spartans begin this Friday, and they begin their season Nov.
A third-party production company reached out to Spartan Athletics this preseason in hopes of filming a behind-the-scenes reality TV show of the MSU football team to air on HBO, much like the network’s popular NFL show, “Hard Knocks,” according to MSU associate athletics director John Lewandowski.
MSU Hockey already knows its talent depth but now two of the team's top returners have garnered some early conference recognition. The Big Ten Conference today released its 12 member deep Preseason Players to Watch List, and two Spartans grace this year’s list.
CBS Sports recently crowned MSU as having the top head coaching duo in basketball and football with Tom Izzo and Mark Dantonio. The title is hard to argue against, given the amount of growth and accomplishment each program has had the last eight seasons – when Dantonio took the reigns of the football program. It is nearly impossible to refute Izzo’s resume as being one of the top coaches in college basketball.