“New players.” It was a phrase heard over and over again at the MSU hockey media day Thursday afternoon. “How are the new players adjusting? How does the team deal with so many new players? Who are the new players the coaching staff expects the most from?”
MSU hockey head coach Tom Anastos said there’s a “5-foot-8-and-a-half hole” in the MSU hockey dressing room right now.
The No. 25 Spartans (14-2 overall, 2-2 Big Ten) head to Madison, Wis., to take on the Badgers (13-4, 1-3) on Friday and then head one state over to play No. 10 Minnesota (13-3, 4-1) on Saturday. The Spartans, who have had five occasions where they play on consecutive days, are seasoned veterans when it comes to staying focused for back-to-back games.
After a rough loss against Pacific on Monday, the No. 20 MSU field hockey team looks to right its ship during its trip to Ohio this weekend.
On Thursday, the Big Ten announced that MSU football (3-2 overall, 0-1 Big Ten) redshirt freshman offensive guard Jack Allen will not face disciplinary action following the conference’s review of Saturday’s game against Ohio State.
With the way the receiving game has struggled through five weeks of the season, it wasn’t a huge surprise when MSU football head coach Mark Dantonio bumped junior wideout Bennie Fowler to second string in favor of true freshman Aaron Burbridge.
Some people only need three weeks in order to achieve what most people would in three months. That is exactly what MSU field hockey sophomore midfielder Becky Stiles did as she played for the Spartans. She traveled to Mexico with Team USA for the Junior Pan American Games and went to school all within three weeks of time.
With a 3-6-1 overall record, the MSU men’s soccer team might not be exactly where it wanted to be, but it is far from giving up.
More than 20 years of coaching only has produced one win for MSU women’s soccer head coach Tom Saxton against Illinois when the Spartans travel to Champaign, Ill., but he and this year’s team (8-3-2, 2-2-1 Big Ten) will have the chance to add to that at 7 p.m. on Thursday.
When Andrew Maxwell made his way to the podium for his weekly press conference, it was the junior quarterback who was on the receiving end of the team’s most recent bit of news.
On the banks of the Red Cedar River at DeMartin Stadium at Old College Field sits a group of fans supporting members of the MSU men’s soccer team (3-6-1) every time they step onto the field for battle.
Lawrence Thomas is used to change. A redshirt freshman, Thomas came to MSU as one of the nation’s top linebacker prospects. But in spring camp, Thomas was asked to move to defensive end, being thrust into a new position before he’d even stepped on the field.
Next time you start complaining about your long, grueling walk from Hubbard Hall to Brody Hall, just be happy you’re not traveling near as much as the MSU volleyball team.
As he lay on the grass, screaming out in pain, it was clear Travis Jackson wouldn’t be able to walk off the field on his own. But it wasn’t until after the MSU football team’s (3-2 overall, 0-1 Big Ten) starting center was carted off the field that the extent of his injury was known.
One team’s triumph is another team’s devastation, and that was the case Monday as the MSU field hockey team fell to Pacific, 3-2.
Midnight Madness, the kickoff to the 2012-13 basketball season will take place beginning at 9:30 p.m. Oct. 12 at Breslin Center.
Saturday’s 17-16 loss to No. 12 Ohio State (5-0 overall, 1-0 Big Ten) was made more painful for the MSU football team (3-2, 0-1) as the Spartans learned sophomore center Travis Jackson suffered a broken leg and a torn medial collateral ligament, or MCL.
In between the booing of all things Michigan and the plethora of signs exclaiming “Next Question,” ESPN’s College GameDay broadcast from East Lansing on Saturday morning with the beautiful Beaumont Tower in the background.
As late as last week, sophomore forward Tim Kretuz said he thought Northwestern men’s soccer was beatable. And they might have been, but that loss didn’t come at the hands of MSU on Sunday afternoon.
It was a busy weekend on campus for MSU, but the most historic event happened on a volleyball court more than 350 miles away from East Lansing.