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The stormy weather symbolized the game. There was nothing elegant about the way MSU avoided its first back-to-back losses results of the season, but the Spartans trudged through the storm to beat Bowling Green, 1-0.
This weekend's game against Indiana University will have an added meaning for the Spartans, as they will honor former linebacker Mylan Hicks, who was killed in a shooting Sunday morning in Calgary, where he played professionally.
At the MSU vs. Wisconsin game Gabe Sherrod, Delton Williams and Kenney Lyke put up their fists during the National Anthem.
Among a roster of 17 players for the MSU volleyball team, two teammates, redshirt-junior Autumn Bailey and senior Allyssah Fitterer, share extremely common roots. Both players, native to Canada, were familiar with each other before arriving at MSU.
Last Saturday the Wisconsin offense had its way with MSU’s defense. Whenever pinned at third and long, the Badgers seemed to make their biggest statements of the day. Out of the seven third and long situations the Badgers converted four of them, resulting in longer drives and points, often through the air.
Junior defensive tackle Malik McDowell had some of the highest projections of anyone in college football coming into this year.
With MSU attempting to avoid their first consecutive negative outcomes of the season, the Spartans delivered a markedly durable performance on Wednesday afternoon against Bowling Green, surviving for a 1-0 success. MSU entered the game 5-2, following their second defeat of the season in a road trip to Maryland, the no.1 team in the nation.
On Tuesday, MSU head coach Mark Dantonio held his weekly press conference addressed some issues he had about the Wisconsin game and gave a preview of this week’s contest against the Indiana Hoosiers.
The State News sports editor Casey Harrison and football writer Stephen Olschanski discuss MSU football's loss to Wisconsin, recent athlete deaths and player protests during the anthem around the area.
On Tuesday, Mark Dantonio announced that junior linebacker Jon Reschke would be out “for a significant period of time,” with an ankle sprain. Dantonio also said that Riley Bullough is day-to-day and a decision will be made on his status later in the week.
With hockey season right around the corner, the Big Ten conference announced their preseason coaches' poll, according to a press release. Of the six teams in the conference, MSU came in at sixth after a 10-23-4 record last season.
There’s a certain point in a game in which the fight is already lost despite the time that remains.
MSU head football coach Mark Dantonio made it known throughout the week that conference play in the Big Ten is where the season really starts to matter.
“Mike was one those guys that first of all, had a great demeanor about him, he was extremely competitive, he was a guy that liked to have fun, very intelligent individual.” - Mark Dantonio Sadler passed away this summer in a car accident, along with Nebraska punter Sam Foltz. The punter, along with seven other Spartans were inducted into the MSU Athletics Hall of Fame on Thursday.
Over 7,500 people came to Jenison Field House over the weekend to watch the No. 20-ranked MSU volleyball team start off their conference schedule, splitting the two games. On Friday MSU ousted the University of Iowa (10-4, 0-2 Big Ten) before falling to the No. 1 University of Nebraska (11-0, 2-0 Big Ten) on Saturday.
It was Labor Day, and the stands were nearly full with 1,522 in attendance at DeMartin Stadium. The game was tied 1-1, and Columbia had resisted nearly all of MSU’s numerous advances.
It began with a tweet. MSU senior graduate transfer defensive end Gabe Sherrod spoke of taking the movement to the realm of college football.
Mylan Hicks, a former MSU linebacker and current member of the Canadian Football League’s Calgary Stampeders, died early Sunday morning in what the team is calling an “act of violence.” Hicks, 23, played for the Spartans from 2010-2014 and was a three-year letterwinner under Mark Dantonio.
Trailing 30-6 fifth-year senior quarterback Tyler O’Connor rolled to the right, didn’t bother to see true freshman wide receiver Donnie Corley by himself in the endzone and zipped a pass to triple covered fifth-year senior Monty Madaris.