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Spartans look to duplicate '03
With a regular season Big Ten title, a Big Ten Tournament title and an NCAA Tournament appearance the MSU field hockey team has work to do to equal last year's success. But the Spartans said they think they can top it. "We lost a couple of workhorses, but the team agreed that everyone has to step it up a notch to cover what we lost," head coach Madison said.
'Nuts get pro support from Chicago's Dempster, Prior
Lansing- To have a major-league pitcher make an appearance for a Class A ball club is a rare occurrence, but it is almost unheard of to have two in the same week. Despite the impossible odds, it happened the week of May 23-29 at Oldsmobile Park, 505 E.
Spartan juniors picked in 2004 MLB Draft
MSU right fielder Travis Gulick and catcher Erik Morris, both juniors, were selected in the 2004 Major League Baseball draft on June 8. Gulick decided to leave and is playing for the Missoula Osprey of the Pioneer League in Missoula, Mont. For Gulick, the two days of sitting in front of his computer listening to the draft online seemed endless until his name was finally called that afternoon. Gulick was drafted by the Arizona Diamondbacks in the 23rd round, 686th overall. "It's been a long process," Gulick said.
Got gut? Lose waist
With so many new priorities - homework, class, meeting new people - some old habits might go by the wayside, especially exercise.
Smith finds success off the field; climbing Mt. Kilimanjaro
For weeks leading up to his Africa trip to climb Mount Kilimanjaro, John L. Smith was asked many times about his sanity for climbing a mountain in his off-season to which he responded, "Oh, it's a Gucci climb." When he returned from his six-day climb to the top of the largest freestanding mountain in the world, the words out of Smith's mouth are not quite so calm. "I joked about the ease of the climb ahead of time, but the truth is - it's not all that Gucci," said Smith with a chuckle. "When this group got done with the climb, they said it's the hardest thing they've ever had to do." For a man who has sky-dived out of a plane, barrell-rolled in a fighter jet, ran with the bulls in Pamplona, Spain and starred in his own rap video, that is no small statement. Smith and 10 other climbers made the journey to climb to the top of the 19,340-feet Uruhu Peak in Tanzania and reaching the summit on July 21.
