The last time the MSU volleyball team played at Breslin Center was Nov. 4, 1995. That was four days before Tom Izzo coached his first game at MSU and the same weekend the MSU football team beat Michigan 28-25 at Spartan Stadium. The Spartans will look to “Bust Breslin” in two games this weekend: Friday against Ohio State and Saturday against No. 21 U-M.
Don’t expect to see building-sized billboards or YouTube.com campaigns featuring MSU running back Javon Ringer for the Heisman Trophy from the university any time soon.
The men’s soccer team was drastically outshot in this weekend’s 1-0 loss on the road to Ohio State in its Big Ten opener.
For the MSU women’s soccer team Friday at BYU, it felt as if they were taking the first segment of drivers’ training all over again — that first time pulling out onto a main road and pressing on the pedal to accelerate to 40 miles per hour — making your heart beat harder and faster as the speed continues to grow.
Starting this season, the CCHA will be the only college hockey league to implement a shootout to resolve ties for conference games.
For two straight weeks, the MSU defense laid low and pressured the quarterback solely with a four-man rush, dropping linebackers and the secondary back into coverage. The Notre Dame offensive line and quarterback Jimmy Clausen learned Saturday what can happen when the Spartans’ linebackers and cornerbacks are let loose at the line of scrimmage.
For former MSU men’s basketball player Steve Smith, 10 years has flown by since the opening of the Clara Bell Smith Student-Athlete Academic Center in 1998. In 1997, Smith donated $2.5 million for the construction of a facility that would serve as both an academic center and gathering space for student-athletes — the largest single donation ever made by a professional athlete to an alma mater.
The No. 24 MSU women’s golf team came back from five strokes down Sunday to upset No. 19 Kent State and win the Mary Fossum Invitational at Forest Akers West Golf Course. The Spartans — who shot 25 over par and trailed Kent State, 20 over par, and Notre Dame, 24 over par, after 36 holes — won by the slimmest of margins, requiring two tiebreakers to prevail.
MSU’s dominance over Notre Dame in the trenches played an integral role in the Spartans’ 23-7 victory over the Fighting Irish on Saturday in which MSU’s linemen imposed their will on the Irish.
Despite Saturday’s highly anticipated MSU vs. Notre Dame football game, hockey fans had a reason to get excited and leave the tailgate early. The Stanley Cup was outside Spartan Stadium to support the MSU hockey team’s effort to raise money for children’s cancer.
After the MSU football team defeated Notre Dame 23-7 on Saturday, the trailer behind the north endzone of Spartan Stadium where postgame interviews are held started filling up. One by one, members of MSU’s offensive line took the stage before senior running back Javon Ringer finally entered and stood at the podium. “Like I said before, I can do nothing without these guys standing next to me,” said Ringer, who rushed for 201 yards and two touchdowns on 39 carries. “It was a great team win and we were very, very dominant up front on both sides of the ball.”
As if there weren’t enough hype for the Spartans’ battle with Notre Dame this weekend, the Big Ten Network wants to add one more to that lengthy list — dedicated to the days leading up to kickoff.
Unless you’re a member of the MSU football program, on his family tree or part of his Fave Five, Brian Hoyer probably doesn’t care what you think about the way he plays football.
Step right up! Step right up! Watch in awe as the prognosticators pull out magical predictions out of their prognosticatin’ hats! And then saw those predictions in half! And then put them back together again!
There’s little doubt MSU’s rivalry with Notre Dame has become one of the most interesting in college football.
BFew rivalries across the nation carry as much history as the one between MSU and Notre Dame. Wild comebacks, colossal upsets and breathtaking finishes have been normal in a rivalry that has been anything but.
The MSU women’s soccer team treated Detroit Mercy as if they were just a speed bump on the road to bigger and better things.
A weekend full of downpours couldn’t stop the Spartans’ season-long dominance. The MSU women’s soccer team’s patience and willingness to stick it out in the pouring rain and standing water on the field allowed them to enter the Green and White record books — posting their seventh straight victory in a 3-0 win to Kent State on Sunday at DeMartin Stadium at Old College Field, the best start in school history.
Coming into this weekend’s first Big Ten game at Ohio State, the men’s soccer team is 2-3. All three losses have come to teams who made the NCAA Tournament last year. So unlike football or basketball, the soccer schedule doesn’t have any gimmick games. Here’s how the team looks heading into conference play.