I couldn’t speak. My eyes were sprung open wide as a garage door, my legs seemingly bolted to the ground beneath me and my breathing heavy and panicked.
Throughout her college career, Liz Shimek kept getting better. Her success helped bring the MSU women’s basketball team to a level of national prominence previously unseen.
The most difficult thing about picking MSU’s male player of the decade is that there are many different ways to approach the question.
Championships and All-Americans. Memorable moments and jaw-dropping plays. The 2000-09 decade has given MSU sports fans memories they will never forget. The next eight pages are filled with the best of the best in the last decade of MSU athletics.
Everything MSU was missing during its sluggish effort Sunday against Indiana was there — and more — Wednesday night against No. 8 Xavier. The Spartans brought the energy, excitement and enthusiasm that head coach Suzy Merchant thought was missing Sunday in a dominating 66-53 win against the Musketeers Wednesday night at Breslin Center.
The holidays will bring plenty of rest and relaxation to the MSU wrestling team, as several players will look to clear up minor injuries and prepare for final exams.
MSU head coach Rick Comley won’t be satisfied with anything but a sweep this weekend.
Nine MSU football players have been charged with assault for their actions in the Nov. 22 altercation at Rather Hall.
The hits keep coming for the MSU women’s basketball team. The No. 21 Spartans will meet their third top-10 opponent this season when they play No. 8 Xavier 7 p.m. tonight at Breslin Center.
This year’s MSU football team would have beaten last year’s team. Now, obviously, you can look at the records and see that last year’s team won nine games, compared to six this season — but this year’s team was better in almost every statistic, and if a few breaks had gone the other way, the teams’ records could have flip-flopped.
The Detroit Tigers, New York Yankees and Arizona Diamondbacks agreed in principle Tuesday to a three-team deal in which Detroit would send All-Star center fielder Curtis Granderson to the Yankees and All-Star starting pitcher Edwin Jackson to the Diamondbacks, FoxSports.com reported Tuesday afternoon.
The MSU men’s basketball team’s past two games against mid-majors have been closer than expected for the No. 12 team in the country. Thursday’s game against Oakland will be no different.
Last season, the MSU hockey team finished the year with a measly 10 wins. But Friday, this year’s Spartans earned their 10th win of the season just 18 games into the year, whereas it took last year’s team 33 games to reach the double-digit win mark.
The MSU men’s basketball team knew The Citadel’s 3-point shooting would give the Spartans fits Monday.
As Sunday’s bowl game news conference commenced, there was one big elephant in the room that made its presence known from time to time.
Notre Dame already has been looking for a new football coach, and now the Fighting Irish also are looking for a new quarterback and wide receiver.
The MSU men’s basketball team narrowly escaped a stellar 3-point shooting effort by the The Citadel to come away with a 69-56 win Monday night at McAlister Field House in Charleston, S.C.
Despite recent struggles on and off the field for the MSU football team, university officials have said their support for head coach Mark Dantonio never has been stronger.
The feeling MSU head coach Mark Dantonio gets when he receives the call that his team is going to a bowl game never fades. Dantonio received that call for the third straight season Sunday as he learned the Spartans will play Texas Tech in the Valero Alamo Bowl on Jan. 2, 2010 at the Alamodome in San Antonio.
The No. 11 MSU hockey team returned to CCHA action this weekend in Marquette, earning a split against Northern Michigan. The Wildcats won Saturday’s game at 3:59 of overtime when the puck deflected off an MSU defenseman’s skate and into the Spartans’ net.