The No. 17 MSU volleyball team completed an undefeated nonconference schedule this weekend with its fourth straight tournament win, earning three victories at the Clemson Classic in Clemson, S.C.
Immediately following the MSU football team’s 33-30 loss to Notre Dame, I felt the same as every other Spartans football fan.
Anyone looking to play golf on a sunny Friday afternoon at Forest Akers East Golf Course this weekend quickly found they were out of luck, as the course was taken over by about 4,200 racers running through fairways and around sand traps.
Kirk Cousins walked off the field at Notre Dame Stadium surrounded by a frenzied mob, a blank expression on his face.
Senior receiver Blair White has proven his 2008 campaign was no fluke. After breaking out with 30 receptions during the final six games of last season, White has continued to have hot hands in 2009, leading the team by a wide margin in both receptions and yards.
It’s a place full of college football lore — Touchdown Jesus in the background, the Golden Dome highlighting the university’s illustrious campus.
Tim Granaderos rolled the dice when he decided to come to MSU. After losing interest in soccer during his early high school years and almost quitting the game altogether, Granaderos didn’t receive any scholarship offers from Division I colleges.
MSU vs. Notre Dame 3:30 p.m., NBC MB: Well, this isn’t exactly the battle of the titans it was looking like last Friday, but it still should be a solid game nonetheless.
After an injury to reigning Heisman Trophy winner Sam Bradford, one member of the holy trinity of Heisman hopeful quarterbacks might be lost, but the other two are right where everyone expected them to be.
The MSU football team will play its second game of 2010 in an NFL stadium in the Midwest because of delayed construction of Florida Atlantic’s new stadium.
MSU head coach Mark Dantonio grew up as a Notre Dame fan. Kind of. Living in Zanesville, Ohio, in the ’60s and ’70s, the choices were limited as to what football teams received national exposure.
Entering last season with only three upperclassmen and significant holes to fill from the previous year’s NCAA Tournament team, the MSU volleyball program turned to a promising freshman class to step in and make contributions immediately.
Six games into the young field hockey season, Spartans head coach Rolf van de Kerkhof is pleased about how his No. 8 team has performed so far — even with two losses.
NCAA President Myles Brand died Wednesday after a nine-month battle with pancreatic cancer, The Associated Press reported. Brand, 67, was diagnosed with cancer in January.
Sam Puryear is in his third season as the head coach of the MSU men’s golf team, but how much the program has changed under his guidance only now might begin to be seen.
The series between MSU and Notre Dame has been electric in recent years. In 2005, the Spartans survived a big comeback to win in overtime. In 2006, Notre Dame returned the favor at Spartan Stadium, stunning the Green and White and sending their season spiraling downward.
Since MSU’s loss to Central Michigan last week, MSU head coach Mark Dantonio said his team will get back to basics.
DeMartin Stadium at Old College Field has been in existence for less than two years, but the No. 11 MSU women’s soccer team already has made history there.
The No. 17 MSU men’s soccer team is on a roll. After easily winning both games in this weekend’s Michigan Invitational in Ann Arbor, the Spartans are prepping for a road trip to California for their last two nonconference games before kicking off the Big Ten schedule against Ohio State on Sept. 27 at DeMartin Stadium at Old College Field.
To MSU football head coach Mark Dantonio, Saturday’s 29-27 upset loss to Central Michigan presented an unfortunate feeling of déja vú from his first year leading the Spartans.