ICE HOCKEY
Renfrew promoted to associate hockey coach
After five seasons with the team, Brian Renfrew was promoted to associate head coach of the MSU hockey team Friday.
SOFTBALL
Spartans upset Wolverines in Big Ten Tournament
The MSU softball team stunned No. 6 Michigan, 2-1, in the opening round of the Big Ten Tournament on Thursday.
FOOTBALL
Thomas, Davis, Baldwin selected in NFL Draft
Three former MSU football players were selected during this weekend’s NFL Draft, while a bevy of others will attempt to enter the league via free agency.
BASEBALL
Crosstown Showdown sells out Oldsmobile Park
Lansing — The cities of Lansing and East Lansing filled the ballpark and emptied the kegs Thursday night at Oldsmobile Park in Lansing for the second annual Crosstown Showdown between the MSU baseball team and the Lansing Lugnuts.
BASKETBALL
Will Izzo leave for Bulls, NBA? Don't bet on it
Tom Izzo says he’s not ruling out consideration for the head coaching position with the NBA’s Chicago Bulls. And who could blame him?
BASEBALL
Baseball team looks to put it all together to close the season
David Grewe has what I would imagine to be an exciting problem on his hands. Grewe, the MSU baseball coach and one of those great guys who you hate to see lose, has a team of studs who sometimes play like duds.
SPORTS
With tournament at home, Spartans look to defend Big Ten title
As defending Big Ten champions, the MSU men’s golf team hopes to earn another win at the Big Ten Championships at Forest Akers West Golf Course this weekend. Under new head coach Sam Puryear, the team has matured and deepened since the fall. The team has had one win and five second place finishes this season.
SPORTS
Best of the best
It’s been a wild ride for MSU sports fans this season. The 2007-08 school year will be remembered for many things, but these are the best of the best
SPORTS
Staffers reflect on years of Spartans sports memories
Four SN seniors describe their two favorite sports memories while at MSU.
BASEBALL
Spartans 'fired up' to face Lugnuts in exhibition game
When the Lansing Lugnuts and the MSU baseball team peer across the field at each other in their respective dugouts, they’ll see players of a different level and a different age.
SPORTS
Spartans head to conference championship hoping to repeat Big Ten title
With the Big Ten title from last year and three tournament wins this season, the No. 16 MSU women’s golf team heads to Penn State this weekend for the Big Ten Championships with high hopes.
BASEBALL
Strong pitching serves up MSU win vs. Toledo
The first three innings of the MSU baseball team’s game against Toledo on Wednesday at Kobs Field looked like the makings of an offensive slugfest.
SOFTBALL
Softball team suffers injuries, still defeats Oakland
Despite sweeping Oakland in Wednesday’s doubleheader that lasted four hours, it was a rough victory for the MSU softball team.
BASEBALL
Playing ball in Beijing
Perry Costello says umpiring baseball games is like any other job — it’s nice to get noticed. So when Costello received a call from the International Baseball Federation, or IBAF, in November 2007 telling him he was selected as one of only two American umpires to work at the 2008 Olympics in Beijing, it was only natural that the DeWitt resident felt a chill go up his spine. “I’ve worked a lot of big events,” said Costello, who has lived in the Lansing area his entire life. “But after (IBAF director of umpires Dick Runchey) talked to me and offered it to me, it made my neck hairs stand up and I said, ‘OK, that’s pretty cool.’
BASEBALL
After early season slump, Roberts gets control of his batting
There’s no denying it: Chris Roberts was slumping. Through the MSU baseball team’s first 10 games of the season, the sophomore left fielder was hitting .167 and he wasn’t feeling like himself.
BASEBALL
Senior pitcher gives MSU stability on mound
Before this season, Chris Cullen bounced around the MSU baseball team’s pitching staff without any firm role. But with a little help from pitching coach Tom Lipari and some offseason work, the senior right-hander has developed into arguably the team’s most dependable starting pitcher, a place head coach David Grewe plans to keep him.
SPORTS
Izzo gets second recruit for 2009
MSU men’s head basketball coach Tom Izzo has landed another recruit for the 2009-2010 season. Six-foot-9, 275-pound center Derrick Nix verbally committed to MSU, according to the scouting Web site Rivals.com.
FOOTBALL
Green slides by white
In an instant, it all changed — a positive swing for half of the MSU football team but a negative one for the other 40 Spartans. The Green team caught a late surge from senior kicker Matt Haughey’s two field goals Saturday afternoon at Spartan Stadium en route to a 23-21 victory over White in the intrasquad spring game that hosted about 27,000 fans.
BASKETBALL
Roe makes impact while injured; will arrive in June
A senior-year, season-ending knee injury followed by microfracture surgery is a situation most typical 18-year-old basketball players would have no idea how to bounce back from.
SOFTBALL
'Inconsistent' Spartans split doubleheader against Indiana
The MSU softball team doesn’t seem to follow any predictable pattern. The Spartans split a two-game series against Purdue and ended the weekend by splitting a doubleheader Sunday against Indiana.