Ann Arbor — The Spartans spent all week saying this meeting with the Wolverines wouldn’t be as lopsided as the team’s first meeting this season, and it proved true in the opening 20 minutes. The Spartans and Wolverines met as a pair of top-10 teams for the second time in three weeks, and the opening half was very different from the first, as the No.
Jasmine Thomas missed the final shot she ever took at Breslin Center in a Spartan uniform.
It was a magical end to the Spartan career of Taira Neal in the MSU gymnastics team’s 197.3-194.875 loss to No. 3 Michigan Saturday evening.
Follow along with our live chat as the MSU men’s basketball team heads to Ann Arbor to face Michigan for the second time this season.
Saturday night’s MSU hockey 1-0 win against Western Michigan at Munn Ice Arena marked multiple “lasts” for the Spartan players.
Friday night’s 5-2 win by Western Michigan over MSU hockey means the Broncos have a shot at a first-place CCHA finish, but for the Spartans, it means securing last place.
Defense and pottery. That’s what the MSU women’s basketball team does for fun.
As the regular season winds down, the MSU women’s basketball team stuck to what got it to 20 wins this season for the 10th-consecutive year: balanced scoring and defense. The Spartans went on the road and avenged an earlier loss to Purdue by sinking the No.
While most students are counting the minutes until spring break, 14 students have gotten an early jump on the time off.
The MSU gymnastics team takes on No. 3 Michigan 4 p.m. Saturday at Jenison Field House in the last home meet of the season.
It’s spring of 2008 and in walks high school shot putter Beth Rohl with broad shoulders and a pair of the twiggiest arms MSU Track and Field throwing coach John Newell had ever seen. The 17-year-old sits nervously in Newell’s office with one question on her mind, “can I try out?”
Chris Forfar, Matt Grassi, Anthony Hayes and Kevin Walrod came to MSU hockey as part of a nine-man freshmen class, but are the only remaining seniors. Since the time they stepped on campus, the four have become close friends and roommates, and soon will go their separate ways as their last days as Spartans quickly approach.
In the beginning, it looked like a replay of the first matchup between MSU women’s basketball and Purdue. The Boilermakers’ sixth-year senior forward Drey Mingo scored six of No.
The final road trip of the season for the MSU women’s basketball team could prove to be the most challenging yet for the Spartans as they travel to No. 25 Purdue (20-7 overall, 9-5 Big Ten) tonight.
When Tom Izzo strode to the podium Tuesday, it didn’t take long to realize something was a little different — the man was on a mission.
Spring break is a time when many students treasure getting out of the slush and snow of Michigan and relaxing on a nice warm beach — but not for the MSU wrestling team.
Former Ohio State offensive coordinator Jim Bollman is set to become MSU football’s next offensive coordinator, according to multiple reports citing anonymous sources. MSU has yet to officially confirm the hire. Bollman previously accepted the offensive line coach position at Purdue this off-season after serving as offensive line coach and run game coordinator at Boston College in 2012. MSU head coach Mark Dantonio and Bollman worked together as assistants under former Spartan coach Nick Saban from 1995-97 and again at Ohio State under Jim Tressel.
For the first time in months, Will Yanakeff sang to arena music. He might have had to travel more than 3,500 miles to do so, but for MSU hockey’s junior goaltender, it’s a sign his confidence finally is restored.
The 2013 NFL Scouting Combine came to a close yesterday with the last group of players concluding their tests, and the four former MSU players invited to Indianapolis seem to have performed rather well.
Keith Appling has been one of Tom Izzo’s most consistent players at both ends of the floor for most of the season.