SOCCER
Spartans will close out season at U-M Friday
The MSU women’s soccer team will travel to Ann Arbor on Friday with hopes of winning its last game of the season against Michigan.
ICE HOCKEY
Icers travel to Alaska to face new-look Nanooks
The MSU hockey team is headed to the Great White North — and isn’t exactly sure what it’ll find there.
BASKETBALL
Izzo expects return of up-tempo offense
Last season, the MSU men’s basketball team averaged 65 points a game playing in a slow-tempo half-court offense. The Spartans were forced into the half-court system due to the lack of backcourt depth, which featured senior guard Drew Neitzel, junior guard Travis Walton, sophomore forward Raymar Morgan and not much else.
SPORTS
Spartans brace for Big Ten Tournament, face Northwestern Thursday
It’s coming down to the wire for the No. 7 MSU field hockey team, as it faces off against Northwestern on Thursday in its first match of the Big Ten Tournament.
ICE HOCKEY
Comley wants more from team
Despite a 4-1-0 record and being ranked No. 6 in the nation, MSU hockey coach Rick Comley rated his team’s performance at this point in the season as a “C” and noted that it seems like the team is “treading water.”
FOOTBALL
Close calls: Spartans aren't far from being 8-1
Although the Spartans are 5-4 overall and sit near the bottom of the Big Ten standings with a 1-4 conference record, all that could be different with minor adjustments.
BASKETBALL
Panelists anticipate successful season for men's basketball
MSU men’s basketball head coach Tom Izzo and Indiana head coach Kelvin Sampson deflected the preseason hype toward each other, but when the votes were in, the Spartans were the media’s preseason pick to win the Big Ten.
FOOTBALL
Crushed expectations
It’s become a recurring Saturday nightmare for the Spartans: Keep the game close until the end, prove the team is capable of winning, but in the end, lose.
BASKETBALL
Big Ten Media Day reveals top rankings for MSU hoops
New coach, same expectations. The MSU women’s basketball team was picked to finish second behind defending league champion Ohio State in the Big Ten preseason media poll, which was announced at Sunday’s Big Ten Media Day.
VOLLEYBALL
MSU ousts U-M, vies for Big Ten standing
The MSU volleyball team beat No. 20 Michigan 3-1 on Saturday at Jenison Field House.
FOOTBALL
Falling apart
Junior wide receiver Devin Thomas saved his team in regulation, streaking down the sideline to catch a 40-yard bomb, but he couldn’t bail out junior quarterback Brian Hoyer in the final play of double overtime. Trailing by seven points on 4th-and-13 on the Iowa 16-yard line, the Spartans needed to move the chains or shoot for the end zone.
ICE HOCKEY
Spartans sweep Wildcats
The No. 8 MSU hockey team did what it needed to do this weekend, sweeping an out-gunned Northern Michigan team at Munn Ice Arena.
WOMEN'S SOCCER
MSU tumbles to 1-8 in Big Ten after 1-0 loss
On Senior Day, MSU could only muster six shots at Illinois keeper Lindsey Carstens in a 1-0 loss Sunday at Old College Field.
SPORTS
Spartans end season on high note with weekend sweep
The MSU field hockey team completed its regular season with a bang this weekend.
FOOTBALL
Prognosticators
State News prognosticators make their picks for the upcoming Big Ten football contests.
SPORTS
Back with a purpose
Last year, senior tight end Kellen Davis traded in his football gear for a suit. His place of business was no longer the football field — it was East Lansing’s 54-B District Court. His teammates continued to practice and worry about the next game while he sat at home on the weekends and worried about his life. Where had his life gone?
FOOTBALL
Jones possesses top potential
When MSU head coach Mark Dantonio and linebackers coach Mike Tressel were still at Cincinnati, they salivated over the prospect of recruiting freshman linebacker Greg Jones, who was a hometown high school football star.
FOOTBALL
Heisman watch
Over the years the Heisman Trophy has come to symbolize the most dynamic offensive player in college football. Six of the past seven Heisman Trophy winners have gone to quarterbacks, and in this week’s Heisman watch, the nation’s two most electrifying quarterbacks take over the top two spots.
FOOTBALL
MSU should have advantage against lowly Iowa
Check out the matchup between the Spartans and the Hawkeyes.
BASEBALL
Spartans recruiting class among best
The MSU baseball team boasts the top recruiting class in the Big Ten Conference for the upcoming 2008 season, according to rankings by Baseball America.