It's better to carry a tune than a grudge. Michigan AD Dave Brandon doesn't view a four-team model as a true playoff. The Wolverines could be sporting more alternate unis in the near future. Urban Meyer releases Ohio State's depth chart and ...
We're getting near the end of our series looking at the most indispensable players on each Big Ten team. Once again, this is not necessarily a listing of the best players on each team, but ones whose absence would be toughest to absorb because of ...
Just a quick reminder that we'll be chatting about all things Big Ten football today at noon ET. Let's discuss the news coming out of the Big Ten spring meetings in Chicago, how the Big Ten fits into college football's future playoff and anything ...
Source: MLive.com by Diamond Leung | dleung@mlive.com
Roe appears in a Vietnam War-era film that premieres today in Cannes and stars Liam Hemsworth from the blockbuster "The Hunger Games."
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CHICAGO -- Two years ago, Big Ten expansion dominated the discussion at league's spring meetings. This week, the subject barely came up when athletic directors and others got together. The Big Ten presidents and chancellors announced in August that the league "will not be actively engaged in conference expansion at this time, or at any time in the foreseeable future, barring a significant shift in the current intercollegiate athletic landscape.Source: Big Ten Football Blog
CHICAGO -- Two years ago, Big Ten expansion dominated the discussion at league's spring meetings. This week, the subject barely came up when athletic directors and others got together. The Big Ten presidents and chancellors announced in August that the league "will not be actively engaged in conference expansion at this time, or at any time in the foreseeable future, barring a significant shift in the current intercollegiate athletic landscape.
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Junior center fielder Kylene Hopkins has received All-Big Ten accolades, as announced by the conference office on Wednesday (May 16). Hopkins earned a first-team selection while senior right fielder Lori Padilla was MSU's sportsmanship honoree.Source: Big Ten Football Blog
Spring practice is a time when coaches install new schemes or just instill the fundamentals. The most exciting part of spring practice is potential new stars emerge, with newcomers or former reserves turning heads with their performances. Some of these guys will fade back into the shadows come fall. But others will be making major contributions on a field near you. Here's a list of some players who had breakout springs: Josh Ferguson, RB, Illinois: Redshirted last year after a hamstring injury, Ferguson blew up for 130 yards and caught six passes in the Illini spring game.Source: MLive.com by Graham Couch | gcouch@mlive.com
Though athletic directors and coaches at the Big Ten's mid-level schools might have to agree to disagree.Source: MLive.com by Josh Slagter | jslagter@mlive.com
Parker, who plays at the same high school that produced Derrick Rose, is touted by the magazine as "the best high school player since LeBron James."Source: Lansing State Journal
Dan Ellis had just two career top-20 finishes through his first two seasons of competition for the Michigan State men's golf team. The redshirt junior has more than tripled that total this season alone.Source: Lansing State Journal
When Holt hosts Grand Ledge today for two of the area's most anticipated high school baseball games of the spring, all that will be in Justin Alleman's mind is leading the Rams to a CAAC Blue title.Source: Lansing State Journal
The Big Ten Legends Division race in 2012 looks like a tight one, with Nebraska, Michigan and defending champ Michigan State all harboring reasonable expectations of making it to the second Big Ten football title game, Dec.Source: Lansing State Journal
A civil war continues to boil in college baseball between the North and the South. It's a frustrating situation of gray vs.Source: Lansing State Journal
Former Michigan State University player Kristin Haynie, of Mason, has been hired as an assistant women's basketball coach at Eastern Michigan University.Source: MSU Sports Blog by Britteny Dee
An influx of art enthusiasts will take over the streets of downtown East Lansing this weekend in celebration of the 49th annual East Lansing Art Festival.Source: MSU Sports Blog by Rebecca Ryan
Nine years ago, Ross Emmett was a regular ANGEL user. But now, the professor in James Madison College has all but sworn off MSU’s current online learning management system, or LMS, after many frustrating incidents where ANGEL muddled his grade books, prevented students from sending him assignments or just didn’t function as well as it could have, he said. Emmett has opted to use Facebook to manage his classes, as it helps students connect with him more quickly.Source: Michigan State Official Site
In the final series of the regular season, the Michigan State baseball team (34-17, 12-9) hosts Penn State (27-24, 13-8) Thursday-Saturday at McLane Baseball Stadium. In the series opener on Thursday, senior co-captain Tony Bucciferro will take the mound at McLane Baseball Stadium for the final time in his career. | Gametracker | Twitter
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As Big Ten athletic directors meet to discuss the future of college football, Michigan State Spartans AD Mark Hollis has been vocal about what he thinks is best for the team, and college football in general. He spoke out on the Rose Bowl, future season schedules, and several other key issues. Here is a look at some of his ideas and how they might affect the Spartans.Source: Yahoo! NCAAF
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Adam Rittenberg wraps up the final day of the Big Ten spring meetings in ChicagoSource: Big Ten Football Blog
CHICAGO -- The Big Ten is bringing together its brainpower to help gather more information about the effects of concussions in sports. Commissioner Jim Delany announced Wednesday that the league members will launch a research initiative about how head injuries affect athletes in all sports. The Committee on Institutional Cooperation, the Big Ten's internal academic consortium, which includes all 12 sports members and the University of Chicago, will manage the project and the research efforts.Source: MLive.com by Diamond Leung | dleung@mlive.com
Rison is back at Michigan State working toward his degree and helping coach Mark Dantonio after filing for bankruptcy in 2007.Source: Big Ten Football Blog
Ohio State head coach Urban Meyer met with the media Wednesday and unveiled a post-spring depth chart. It didn't contain a lot of surprises. Some of the most interesting items from the depth chart -- and Meyer's comments -- included: Doran Grant has risen to co-starter status with Travis Howard at cornerback. Spring game sensation Michael Thomas is listed as the backup to Devin Smith at receiver, with Corey Brown and Evan Spencer the other starters there.Source: Michigan State Official Site
The Michigan State women's basketball program announced the dates of their summer camps. The Spartans will hold a Kiddie Kamp on June 15-16 and an individual/overnight camp on June 26-29. MSU Sports Camps PageSource: MLive.com by Graham Couch | gcouch@mlive.com
Independent bidding for title game will allow cities such as Indianapolis, Detroit and Minneapolis to come into play.Source: Big Ten Football Blog
CHICAGO -- When the Big Ten put 20,000 general public tickets on sale for the inaugural football title game in late July, they were gone within two hours. But many of those tickets -- bought by fans whose teams didn't qualify for the game in Indianapolis -- reappeared on websites like Stubhub.com days before the game, creating a soft secondary market. Some tickets were priced as low as $9 right before the game. Although the game sold out, there were several thousand empty seats at Lucas Oil Stadium when Wisconsin played Michigan State.Source: The Detroit News
Kristin Haynie, who helped Michigan State make it to the 2005 NCAA Championship game, was hired by Eastern Michigan on Wednesday to be an assistant coach for the school's women's team.Source: Big Ten Football Blog
Big Ten commissioner Jim Delany recaps the league's spring meetings with Adam Rittenberg.Source: Big Ten Football Blog
CHICAGO -- Despite a few speed bumps, the Big Ten/Pac-12 scheduling partnership is "a go," Big Ten commissioner Jim Delany told his league's athletic directors this week. The details are still being worked out, which isn't a surprise when you have 24 major-conference programs with unique interests, scheduling philosophies and scheduling agreements. But Delany hopes to have a more specific idea of the scheduling models in the next few months. "We do want it all fit in," Delany said Wednesday.Source: Michigan State Official Site
Former Michigan State track & field standout Fred Johnson died on Friday, May 11 in Grand Rapids. He was 87. Johnson was inducted in the MSU Athletics Hall of Fame in 1993, as a tribute to his outstanding accomplishments as a member of the Spartan track & field program. He won the indoor NCAA Championship in the broad jump in 1949.Source: Lansing State Journal
With the Big Ten's college football playoff recommendation fairly established -- the league's athletic directors want the bowls involved instead of home sites, no more than four teams involved, and for schedule strength and perhaps a selection committee tSource: Big Ten Football Blog
CHICAGO -- The Big Ten favors having a college football playoff within the existing bowls, which essentially pushes those games to warmer climates in the south and west. As Ohio State athletic director Gene Smith said, "Let's say it is 5 degrees. Is that right for the game?" Apparently it's OK for lower-tier bowls. League commissioner Jim Delany said Wednesday that the Big Ten will have discussions with the Pinstripe Bowl, played outside in late December at New York's Yankee Stadium, about a potential future tie-in.Source: MLive.com by Graham Couch | gcouch@mlive.com
Commissioner Jim Delany: "We will continue to look at it. But we're very comfortable with where we are"Source: Michigan State Official Site
Michigan State men's golf junior Dan Ellis prepares for his first NCAA experience this week, as he travels to Ann Arbor for the NCAA Central Regional. Play at the University of Michigan Golf Course begins for Ellis on Thursday at 9:40 a.m. ET. The regional will feature 18 holes on Thursday, Friday and Saturday. After the 54 holes, the top five teams, and the top individual not on those teams will advance to the NCAA Championship. Live ScoringSource: Big Ten Football Blog
CHICAGO -- The Big Ten favors having a college football playoff within the existing bowls, which essentially pushes those games to warmer climates in the south and west. As Ohio State athletic director Gene Smith said, "Let's say it is 5 degrees. Is that right for the game?" Apparently it's OK for lower-tier bowls. League commissioner Jim Delany said Wednesday that the Big Ten will have discussions with the Pinstripe Bowl, played outside in late December at New York's Yankee Stadium, about a potential future tie-in.Source: Big Ten Football Blog
ANN ARBOR, Mich. -- Michigan lost some invaluable leadership on the offensive line when center David Molk graduated. A somewhat unlikely figure is volunteering to fill that void. "I definitely see myself as a leader," junior left tackle Taylor Lewan told ESPN.com. "I want to be one of the main guys that really helps through all the successes and all the bad things. I want that to be put on myself. "I'm the left tackle, the blind side. They made a movie about it.Source: Big Ten Football Blog
The league meetings in Chicago and playoffs (cue Jim Mora clip) dominate your hump day links: The Big Ten's love of the Rose Bowl is making it act irrationally and against the league's best interests, Dan Wetzel writes. There's no guarantee on how that Rose Bowl relationship will continue. The Big Ten won't be able to use geography as an excuse for bowl performance in the future, Drew Sharp says. The league is pushing for a seven-win minimum to make a bowl game even though that may hurt some of its own teams.Source: Big Ten Football Blog
CHICAGO -- When the college football playoff push kicked off, Ohio State athletic director Gene Smith planted himself in the campus-sites camp. Smith favored having the semifinals on the campuses of the higher-seeded teams. The setup would give Big Ten teams like Ohio State an advantage they've never enjoyed in the current BCS/bowl setup -- nationally significant games on Midwest soil in late December or early January. Big Ten commissioner Jim Delany was among the first major college football figures to stump for campus sites this winter.Source: MLive.com by Graham Couch | gcouch@mlive.com
Big Ten supports transparent process as discussion heats up on "how" teams are chosen and "who" gets in. The "what" (a four-team field) is all but a certainty.Source: Big Ten Football Blog
It's time once again for our series looking at the most indispensable players on each Big Ten squad entering the 2012 season. All together now: this is not necessarily a listing of the best players on each team, but of those whose absence would cause the most pain because of their particular value or a lack of depth at their positions. Up now: Penn State. Silas Redd, RB, Junior Although Bill Belton had a nice spring, Penn State's backfield otherwise looked very thin.Source: Big Ten Football Blog
Adam Rittenberg recaps the day at the Big Ten spring meetings, where the future postseason format and bowls were hot topics.Source: Big Ten Football Blog
I'll be covering the final day of the Big Ten spring meetings in Chicago, so my regular chat is moving from Wednesday to noon ET Thursday. Please join me then to recap the spring meetings, discuss the latest playoff developments and any other Big Ten issues that crop up. Again, noon ET Thursday. See you then.Source: MLive.com by Philip Zaroo | pzaroo@mlive.com
There's little risk the Lions will lose any players to the NBA draft, but they were still able to top the Spartans, 62-61.Source: Lansing State Journal
Mick VanVossen looked dominant on the mound.Source: Lansing State Journal
Playoffs? Yeah, they're talking playoffs.Source: The Detroit News by Tom Markowski - The Detroit News
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The Big Ten Conference office announced on Tuesday the 2012 All-Big Ten women's and men's outdoor track and field teams and individual award winners.Source: The Detroit News by Matt Carboneau - The Detroit News
Source: MSU Sports Blog by Dillon Davis
In front of a crowd of 3,458 on a warm summer evening in Detroit, VanVossen gave up two runs in seven innings of work en route to MSU’s 5-2 victory over Central Michigan in the second-annual Clash at Comerica.
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