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MSU baseball finds offense against Central Michigan

Matthew Argillander
March 25, 2015

By Matthew Argillander margillander@statenews.com The men's baseball team has struggled to find offensive consistency in their young season but if the game against Central Michigan on Tuesday is any indication of what is to come the team may of found a 'home-remedy'. In the Spartans first home game of the year the offense got out to a hot start scoring three runs in the first and they never looked back en route to an 8-3 win over the Chippewas. Senior catcher and first baseman Blaise Salter who had two RBI's in the game said that the team needed this performance after struggling to get the offense going as of late. "We came out to a hot start with the first inning hitting, we needed that we kind of struggled a bit," Salter said.

BASKETBALL

Column: Travis Trice of 2015 is beginning to look like Shabazz Napier of 2014

John Neidhart
March 24, 2015

Travis Trice might be this year’s Shabazz Napier. It’s a premature comparison at the moment but if the senior MSU guard continues to play the way he has, his legacy will mirror that of the Connecticut Huskie who torched the Spartans in the Elite Eight. Tell me that this doesn’t sound familiar: A skinny, six-foot guard dominates NCAA tournament games for stretches of time and knocks down NBA-range threes to lead his No.

BASKETBALL

MSU expecting Oklahoma to run, run and run some more

Omari Sankofa II
March 24, 2015

On Sunday against Virginia, head coach Tom Izzo had to game plan for Virginia's slow, methodical offense eats up much of the shot clock.  On Friday against Oklahoma, Izzo expects the exact opposite. "Run, run, run, run, run, man," Izzo said during his weekly press conference on Tuesday. "I think we could have a test run for the 20?second shot clock in this game.

FOOTBALL

Mark Dantonio has shown that he has a history of developing two-star prospects into NFL players

Matthew Argillander
March 23, 2015

When you think of some of the biggest named players to come out of Michigan State as of late you think of running back Le'Veon Bell, quarterback Kirk Cousins, cornerback Darqueze Dennard and cornerback Trae Waynes. These guys have more in common than their former team, they all happen to be lower-end mostly two-star recruits. Bell was a two-star according to Rivals, Dennard was a two-star, Waynes was a two-star and Cousins was a three-star according to Rivals but he was considered a two-star on some platforms during his process. Bell, a second round pick in 2013, is coming off of a monster season in Pittsburgh in which he ran for 1,361 yards and eight touchdowns all while making 83 receptions for 854 yards and another three touchdowns.

FOOTBALL

Despite not being invited to the NFL combine, Marcus Rush impressed at MSU pro day

Zach Libby
March 22, 2015

When a quality college resume still wasn't enough to receive an invite to February's NFL combine in Indianapolis, that gave former MSU standout, Marcus Rush, a much needed edge during this past Wednesday's pro day.  When he was forced to sit at home while his teammates strived to improved their draft stock inside Lucas Oil Stadium, that gave Rush a reason for NFL personnel to rethink their decision of leaving out the defensive end.  Backing up why he started a program-record 53 games in his four years at East Lansing, Rush finished with a 4.68 40-yard dash, 24 bench reps and a 34-inch vertical leap.  "It just gave me a chip on my shoulder," Rush said at the Duffy Daughtery Facility.