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FOOTBALL

Places to be in Indianapolis for the Big Ten championship

Nathaniel Bott
December 4, 2015

Numerous Spartan fans making the trek to Indianapolis for Saturday’s Big Ten championship, and the game pitting No. 4 Iowa and No. 5 Michigan state is bound to be great, with the winner being as close to a lock for the College Football Playoff as they could. As for the fans getting to Indianapolis on Friday or early Saturday, multiple events are taking place to enjoy the festivities before the game.

SPORTS

Five MSU swimmers set to compete in Winter National Championships

Mason Bailey
December 2, 2015

Five MSU swimmers are looking to take a big step in their careers as they compete in this year's AT&T Winter National Championships in Federal Way, WA.  The event is an opportunity for the best swimmers in the nation--from high school athletes to olympians--to showcase their talents and, hopefully, post a time fast enough to earn them a spot on the Olympic team.  This competition is especially important for senior Ian Rodriguez, last year's Puerto Rico National Champion, who is looking to post a time in the 100m backstroke good enough to earn him a spot on the Puerto Rico Olympic team.

BASKETBALL

MSU basketball's busy schedule continues with No. 24 Louisville on Wednesday night

Ryan Squanda
December 2, 2015

The No. 3 MSU basketball team (7-0) is off to a fast and busy start to its 2015-16 campaign and is currently in the midst of a stretch which, when it's all said and done, will include seven games in 15 days. What started as a 79-73 victory over Kansas on Nov. 17 in Chicago, was followed by a 92-46 victory against Arkansas-Pine Bluff and continued with a four-game week, where the Spartans finished a Wooden Legacy championship. But MSU's busy stretch doesn't stop there. The Spartans, after getting back from California at 6:30 a.m. Monday morning, will turn right back around and take on the No. 24 Louisville Cardinals (5-0) Wednesday at 7:15 p.m.

FOOTBALL

Football runs in the family for MSU wide receiver Monty Madaris

Ryan Kryska
December 1, 2015

Monty Madaris, redshirt-junior wide receiver and defensive back at MSU, played for the skinny bricks alongside his cousin Rodriguez. Lined up across the backyard on the roughnecks were the boys’ other cousins, Greg and Michael Means Jr. While also in the Eastside of Cincinnati, their cousin Isiah Gentry was growing up a few years behind the six-year-olds’ makeshift league. Madaris, Means Jr. and Gentry, all products of Archbishop Moeller High School in Cincinnati and all wide receivers, now play NCAA Division I football across the Midwest, with Means Jr. being a redshirt-junior at Akron and Gentry a redshirt-freshman at Minnesota.