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Incoming freshmen hone skills in league
There are loftier expectations on the MSU men’s basketball team this upcoming season with the addition of three incoming freshman.
Bryan Lerg named hockey team captain
Senior forward Bryan Lerg will serve as captain of the 2007-08 MSU hockey team.
Coaches cope with tragedies
Chicago — Coping with tragedies that struck their football programs, Northwestern University head coach Pat Fitzgerald and Indiana head coach Bill Lynch have made an effort, along with their players, to put losses on and off the field behind them. Not so long ago, Fitzgerald and his teammates were stunning the college football world and taking Northwestern on an improbable run to the Rose Bowl during the 1995 season. But then, things began to change.
Big Ten Network taps Brennaman
The Big Ten Network announced Wednesday that play-by-play announcer Thom Brennaman and college football TV analyst Charles Davis will compose its lead football broadcast team. Brennaman served as an NFL and MLB play-by-play announcer and called two Bowl Championship Series college football games in January after FOX was awarded with four BCS bowl games, including the BCS national championship game. Baseball viewers will remember Brennaman's call of the 2006 ALCS and Tigers outfielder Magglio Ordonez's walk-off home run in Game 4 to win the pennant. Brennaman and Davis called one of college football's most memorable games this past bowl season, as Boise State shocked heavy favorite Oklahoma in the 2007 Tostitos Fiesta Bowl, 43-42, on the final play of the game. "These individuals' backgrounds make up the perfect mix for the Big Ten Network," executive producer Leon Schweir said in a statement. "Our coverage of Big Ten football games and programs will be solid from day one."
Neitzel makes final cut for Pan-Am team
The U.S. men's basketball final roster for the Pan American Games was announced Tuesday afternoon, and MSU senior Drew Neitzel, a 6-foot, 180-pound guard, made the cut along with 11 others players. The U.S.
