The trees' leaves are starting to change colors, the weather is becoming a little more frigid, a would-be promising football season is once again down the toilet and the 2006-07 MSU hockey team is just about ready to kick off a new season in defense of a CCHA playoff championship.
Monday Musings For the first time in more than 30 years, Notre Dame will make 5,000 season tickets available to football games starting next season. The fee for the tickets will help pay for more than $40 million in repairs to Notre Dame Stadium, as well as Charlie Weis' months of post-slap therapy. Tennessee Titans defensive tackle Albert Haynesworth was ejected from his team's game Sunday after stomping on Dallas center Andre Gurode's face. Haynesworth said he plans to appeal any suspension because, come on, Gurode's face does kind of look like a Dance Dance Revolution board. For the second straight season, only selected MSU football players will be available to the media before this Saturday's game against Michigan. Team officials said the rest of the team will be unavailable to give interviews because they'll be busy making sure no one plants any flags at Spartan Stadium.
If you want to point fingers as to why MSU lost to Illinois, there's plenty of blame to go around.
After back-to-back 1-0 home losses against Indiana and Purdue over the weekend, the MSU women's soccer team dropped to 0-3 in Big Ten play.
By Matt Benjamin For The State News It was Homecoming on Saturday, and the celebration was on at the Charles McCaffree Pool in IM Sports-West, where the 51st annual Alumni Swim Meet was held.
Coaching is more than a simple task of motivating a group of 18- to 22-year-olds to play hard on Saturdays.
It was a game that wasn't supposed to be close. MSU was expected to put up big offensive numbers against Illinois Saturday, answering any questions about the lingering effects of the Notre Dame collapse. But after a disappointing 23-20 loss, the Spartans failed to respond to that question and raised many more about an offense that put up just 259 total yards. "We should be able to put up 40 points on Illinois," senior center Kyle Cook said.
As the ball rolled into the goal, several MSU men's soccer players fell to the ground, stunned at how the game had just ended in front of them.
MSU men's soccer senior goalkeeper Jason Tillman has been named Big Ten Defensive Player of the Week for the second time in three weeks. Tillman was honored after posting consecutive shutouts against Bowling Green and Wisconsin last week.
By the slimmest of margins, the No. 5 MSU hockey team was picked as the early favorite in the CCHA Coaches Poll, which was announced Wednesday at the league's Media Day. Although the Spartans had the most first-place votes in the media poll, No.
Each week, State News football reporter Ethan Conley offers his own Top 10 college football rankings. No.
Chris Lawrence only scored two goals last year on the MSU hockey team's fourth line. But because of his blue-collar work ethic and leadership, Lawrence's teammates unanimously voted him team captain this May. "I just kind of took it upon myself to step up and be a leader (last season)," Lawrence said Monday at Media Day.
If there's one big question mark for head coach Rick Comley and the 2006-07 MSU hockey team, it's the status of the team's defense after the key offseason losses of Jared Nightingale and Corey Potter. "I think our talent's fine at that position, but it's not proven," Comley said Monday at Media Day. The No.
The MSU field hockey team finally found its offense — which helped the team finally find the win column. The Spartans snapped a three-game losing streak Tuesday as they defeated Central Michigan, 5-3, at the MSU Field Hockey Complex. Freshman midfielder Anne-Sophie van Rijswijk led the way for the Spartans (4-7 overall, 0-1 Big Ten) by scoring her first collegiate hat trick. The Spartans took advantage of Central Michigan's defensive struggles early in the game, jumping out to a 3-0 lead through 15 minutes. "We started out strong," MSU head coach Rolf van de Kerkhof said.
In football rivalry games, emotions often run high. Such was the case in MSU's game against Notre Dame on Saturday, when a late hit caused a sideline scuffle and an MSU investigation. Senior quarterback Drew Stanton was running out of bounds into the Notre Dame sideline in the second quarter when he was hit and got pinned under the opposing team's bench.
Rick Comley might be the only coach in the world who takes a pen and pad of paper with him while kayaking on vacation. After a successful 2005-06 campaign that included a CCHA playoff championship and No.
The MSU men's basketball team received its first verbal commitment for the 2008 class, landing Korie Lucious, a 5-foot-10 guard from Milwaukee Pius XI High School. Lucious is ranked as the No.
Despite solid goaltending from senior Stephanie Yuhasz that kept the team in the game for much of the contest, the MSU field hockey team was unable to string together any amount of solid play, falling to No.
The MSU volleyball team fought hard this weekend, ending with a 3-1 victory against Indiana. But first on Friday, the Spartans took on No.
Correction: The story should say Notre Dame quarterback Brady Quinn completed just 2-of-8 first-quarter pass attempts for six yards. The Brady Quinn Heisman Hype Machine hit the wall Sept.