No new information has been released in regards to the two MSU women’s basketball players who have been suspended for the first nine games of the 2012-13 season.
When Andrew Maxwell committed to the MSU football team as a senior in high school in 2008, the MSU campus wasn’t quite the same as it is today.
When the MSU women’s soccer team takes on No. 14 Wisconsin at 6 p.m. this Friday in Madison, Wis., one Spartan will have a little more motivation to walk away with the win.
It’s often overlooked, but special teams is one of the most important facets of a football game, and after Saturday’s 20-3 loss to No. 11 Notre Dame (3-0), the No. 21 Spartans (2-1) know it better than anyone else.
After sweeping the Holiday Inn Charleston/Mt. Pleasant Tournament in Charleston, S.C., last weekend, the Spartans, now are 12-0, which ties them for the third-best start in MSU history. They’re also 36-4 in individual sets, winning nine of their first 12 matches in straight sets.
Bennie Fowler isn’t quite sure what happened in the first quarter of MSU’s 20-3 loss against No. 11 Notre Dame. On first down, junior quarterback Andrew Maxwell found Fowler in the end zone for what would have been a 28-yard touchdown pass that would have knotted the game at 7-7.
The No. 21 MSU football team (2-1) is headed back to the classroom this week, hoping to study up and learn where the mistakes were made in Saturday’s 20-3 loss to No. 11 Notre Dame.
With the start of their Big Ten season looming, the MSU field hockey team wants to prove to everyone that last year’s 7-13 last-place finish in the Big Ten was a fluke and that they’re ready to contend for a conference title.
To an outsider, it might seem Norman was living the college soccer dream. But for the senior midfielder, something just wasn’t right, and when the opportunity to return to his home state and play as a Spartan arose, he had to jump at it.
The corner kick is one of the most mystifying things in soccer. Each time the ball is kicked, it’s a crapshoot concerning what will happen next. It could be safely cleared out of play or pinball off of three players and go into the net.
After the passing game struggled to get off the ground in a 20-3 loss to No. 11 Notre Dame (3-0) on Saturday, the No. 21 MSU football team will spend this week looking for explanations and solutions to the offense’s weak showing.
Campus police reported about half as many arrests as the last Notre Dame home game, and the East Lansing Police Department, or ELPD, also said numbers were surprisingly low.
When the MSU men’s soccer (2-5-1) team took the field Sunday against Marquette, it was just another must-win game for the players. For Tim Kreutz, it was personal.
The MSU volleyball team, off to its best start since 2009 and the third-best start in team history at 12-0, got some more good news after sweeping the Holiday Inn Charleston/Mt. Pleasant Tournament when junior middle blocker Alexis Mathews was named the Big Ten Defensive Player of the Week.
MSU freshman forward Kenny Kaminski will be out four to six months after undergoing successful surgery on his right shoulder on Sept. 7 to repair a torn labrum, according to a release by the MSU athletics department.
As has been previously documented, the MSU field hockey team is currently without its starting center midfielder, sophomore Becky Stiles. Stiles is in Guadalajara, Mexico, with the U.S. under-21 team, competing in the under-21 Pan-American Games.
MSU women’s basketball head coach Suzy Merchant announced Friday that sophomore guard Kiana Johnson and redshirt freshman forward Akyah Taylor have been suspended for the first nine games of the upcoming season, after NCAA guidelines “related to the receipt of extra benefits” were violated, according to a release by the MSU athletics department. “Both Kiana and Akyah are good student-athletes that made a bad decision this summer,” Merchant said in a statement.
Head coach Mark Dantonio said it was a “tough day at the office.” Junior linebacker Max Bullough called it an “eye-opener.” Offensive coordinator Dan Roushar said it was “frustrating.”
It was the interceptions Max Bullough and Chris Norman just couldn’t quite grab. It was the touchdown that bounced off Bennie Fowler’s hands. It was the near-blocked punt that became a roughing the kicker penalty. On a night when Notre Dame appeared to make every big play, the Spartans couldn’t manage to just get out of their own way. By the end of the night, No.
The morning after most home football games, East Lansing is comparable to a party war zone -— streets filled with broken glass, lawns littered with red solo cups and trash scattered throughout the city.