MSU junior quarterback Kirk Cousins, along with 111 other college football players, was nominated to be a part of the 19th annual Allstate American Football Coaches Association Good Works Team.
When Big Ten Commissioner Jim Delany welcomed Nebraska as the conference’s 12th member June 11, he also said a conference championship game soon would be in the works. The game would not be played until the 2011 season, as Nebraska doesn’t officially join the conference until then, but as possible locations for the game are being discussed, here are my top five options for the Big Ten Championship.
The All-Star break has come and gone, and four games into the second half of the season, it already appears the Detroit Tigers are continuing a familiar trend of falling in the second half of the season. But 2010 is a new year, and although the Tigers lost their first four games after the break to the woeful Cleveland Indians, they still are within striking distance of the first-place Chicago White Sox with plenty of baseball to be played. If Detroit hopes to reverse its post-All-Star break woes, here are three things that need to happen.
The MSU volleyball team, which typically plays at Jenison Fieldhouse, will host a series of matches at Breslin Center in 2010 for the third consecutive season.
In Jason Richardson’s nine years in the NBA, he has played for three different teams and three different cities. At every stop along the way, Richardson has been involved in the community, donating his time and money to his own charity, the Jason Richardson Foundation, and others in those cities. But when the former MSU standout returned to Michigan for the annual Jason Richardson Golf Classic on Wednesday, which benefited the United Way of Saginaw County, he said he hasn’t forgotten where he came from.
College football fans still have a little less than two months before the 2010 season kicks off. As the first game draws closer, the excitement becomes increasingly more difficult to contain. Fortunately, for those of us who can’t wait for some college football action, EA Sports NCAA Football 11 should adequately fill the void in the meantime.
Although Holland put together the most impressive run in the tournament, the talent always existed on the Spanish side. Spain had some struggles early on in the tournament, but the talented squad was able to put it all together when it counted. They didn’t win any game overwhelmingly despite their loaded roster, but they won, and isn’t that all that counts?
During the summer, MSU students still in East Lansing have a variety of different opportunities presented to them than they might find throughout the regular school year. Lighter class loads and warmer temperatures give students more time to enjoy the outdoors, including East Lansing’s surrounding golf courses, which are in prime form.
When the Netherlands meets Spain in Sunday’s World Cup final, it will guarantee one thing: the first European champion when the World Cup is played on a continent other than Europe.
Choosing to forego his senior season with the MSU hockey team, junior forward Corey Tropp has signed a three-year entry-level contract with the NHL’s Buffalo Sabres, MSU announced Tuesday.
Beginning at 10 a.m. Saturday, tickets for the MSU football game against Florida Atlantic at 12 p.m. Sept. 11 at Ford Field will be on sale for the general public. Because the game is an away game, only MSU students who have bought season admission can buy tickets. Students are limited to buying three tickets and must pick them up at the visiting team’s will call on game day using two forms of ID and an e-mail confirmation.
The waiting is over. Arguably one of the most important summers in NBA history kicked off at midnight, when free agency officially began. Led by LeBron James, one of the best players in the world, the 2010 class of free agents is loaded with talent and could completely change the current landscape of the NBA.
The MSU volleyball team, which returns 11 letterwinners from its 2009 squad, announced its schedule for the 2010 season Tuesday. Playing a tough schedule, the Spartans will face nine of the 21 teams in last season’s NCAA Tournament and three of the four NCAA Semifinal teams.
For some of the early entries, such as No. 1 pick John Wall, leaving school for the NBA was an easy decision. However, not every player who left school early was happy with his decision on draft night.
After going undrafted in Thursday’s 2010 NBA Draft, former MSU forward Raymar Morgan was invited to play for the Washington Wizards in the NBA Summer League. The Wizards will play five games in the league, which runs July 9-18 in Las Vegas. Morgan likely will get the chance to play with John Wall, whom the Wizards picked No. 1 overall in the draft.
Landon Donovan’s extra time goal lifted the United States past Algeria in the 2010 World Cup and sent the 100 or so spectators in the Clara Bell Smith Student-Athlete Academic Center into a frenzy. There’s little doubt the actions of the U.S. National Team left an impact greater than on the hundreds of young soccer players gathered at MSU to watch the all-important game Wednesday.
Landon Donovan is the one U.S. soccer player even the most casual soccer fans — or non-fans — know. The weight that’s carried with his name makes the goal against Algeria on Wednesday morning so much more special. He once was just the name of U.S. soccer for people who didn’t follow the sport and an underperforming star in the eyes of true fans. But now, he might become the first sports hero from the increasingly popular American sport — soccer.
For the fourth consecutive year, MSU students and fans can vote for the design of the football student section T-shirt, which comes along with the student season ticket package. Three different designs for both the front and back of the 2010 edition of the shirt are posted on msuspartans.com for voting, which will continue through July 14.
Recognized for their excellence on the playing field last season, MSU football linebacker Greg Jones and field hockey midfielder Floor Rijpma were named the George Alderton Male and Female Athletes of the Year, MSU announced Monday. The award is given to the top male and female Spartan athlete at the end of each year.
Voting has begun for the design of the 2010 MSU football student section T-shirt. For the fourth year in a row, fans can vote for different designs on the front and back of the T-shirt that comes with the purchase of student season tickets.