It hasn’t happened since 1967, but on Saturday, the No. 17 MSU football team believes it can hand archrival Michigan its third straight loss in the rivalry.
The MSU hockey team will have to replace its senior class along with three outstanding juniors after defenseman Jeff Petry and forwards Andrew Rowe and Corey Tropp all decided to skip their final year to play professionally.
State News football reporter Jeremy Warnemuende writes that Michigan’s arrogance must come to an end now that the Spartans have taken over the rivalry in the annual State News-Michigan Daily dueling columns
Michigan Daily Managing Sports Editor Ryan Kartje write a letter to his little sister who is considering attending MSU for the annual State News-Michigan Daily dueling columns.
As the roars from the Big House in Ann Arbor subside and the highly anticipated football game concludes Saturday night, the seniors on the MSU women’s soccer team begin their battle against Michigan and hope to come away with a win that could define their careers.
Ready to bounce back from its first Big Ten loss in the last nine conference matchups, the No. 7 MSU field hockey team said it will take its lessons learned from the 2-1 loss to No. 15 Michigan and apply them to take down No. 16 Penn State and No. 11 Wake Forest this weekend.
With its sights set on earning a spot in the NCAA Tournament, the MSU volleyball team said it now is viewing every match as an opportunity to prove why it deserves to see postseason tournament action.
For entomology postdoctoral student Ryan Kimbirauskas, Saturday would have consisted of playing a round of golf with a friend and grilling some food at home before the MSU football game.
As the No. 17 MSU football team prepares for in-state rival No. 18 Michigan, all eyes are on U-M quarterback Denard Robinson. On Saturday, the Wolverines will meet an MSU defense that is coming off its best performance of the season in a 34-24 win against Wisconsin, in which it tackled well and held Wisconsin’s power rushing attack to 165 yards.
As if on cue, the Spartan Marching Band started the MSU Fight Song almost immediately following the game-winning goal in the No. 18 MSU men’s soccer match against New Hampshire.
MSU football head coach Mark Dantonio plans to return to the coaches’ box Saturday against No. 18 Michigan after watching the No. 17 Spartans’ last two games on TV.
The extra buzz around campus in advance of Saturday’s game between the No. 17 MSU football team and No. 18 Michigan hasn’t escaped the notice of players.
Despite finishing up her NCAA eligibility last season, former MSU field hockey player Jeamie Deacon has stayed with the program. Deacon is acting as a student-assistant coach while she finishes up her education. She plans to graduate in December with a civil engineering degree.
The Barone brothers are used to living identical lives. But this year, similar groin injuries were enough to surprise even the twins from the No. 18 MSU men’s soccer team.
MSU women’s cross country runner Emily MacLeod has won her second Big Ten Women’s Cross Country Runner of the Week award this season, the conference announced Tuesday.
It didn’t take long for MSU senior linebacker Greg Jones to start thinking about Saturday’s game against No. 18 Michigan. As time was winding down in No. 17 MSU’s 34-24 win against No. 20 Wisconsin on Saturday, Jones already had begun preparing for the Spartans’ biggest rival.
In week two, I described the 2010 NFL season as chaotic, with the so-called best NFL teams falling early. Now, just two weeks later, I don’t even have a word to describe it.
MSU men’s basketball senior guards Kalin Lucas and Durrell Summers were named to the John R. Wooden Award Preseason Top 50 List, the Los Angeles Athletic Club announced Monday
MSU women’s soccer junior goalkeeper Jill Flietstra won her second Big Ten Defensive Player of the Week award after posting back-to-back shutouts against Indiana and Purdue this weekend, the conference announced Monday.
MSU football head coach Mark Dantonio was released from Sparrow Hospital at noon Monday, after a blood clot was discovered in his leg Thursday.