May 31st, 2017

Rising juniors Madison O’Neill and Samantha Siegel and rising sophomore Hannah Ackers have been selected to participate in the 2017 Young Women’s National Championship (YWNC).

Source: Michigan State Official Athletic Site

May 31st, 2017

Junior Lea Foerster (Portage, Mich.) has been named a National Fastpitch Coaches Association (NFCA) Second Team All-American, as announced this afternoon.

Source: Michigan State Official Athletic Site

May 31st, 2017

Alex Troop is a finalist for the John Olerud Two-Way Player of the Year Award announced Wednesday by the College Baseball Foundation. Troop, a sophomore left-handed pitcher/first baseman is one of five finalists for the award. The Spartan is one of two players from the Big Ten Conference, joined by Nebraska’s Jake Meyers, along with two players from the Atlantic Coast Conference in Louisville’s Brendan McKay and Virginia’s Adam Haseley and one from the Big 12 Conference in West Virginia’s Braden Zarbnisky.

Source: Michigan State Official Athletic Site

May 31st, 2017

Michigan State’s recent tradition of opening its football season the Friday of Labor Day weekend is coming to an end. The Spartans will host Bowling Green to open the season at noon on Saturday, Sept. 2. MSU had opened the past six seasons with a Friday night game over Labor Day weekend, five of them at home and one at Western Michigan.

Source: Lansing State Journal

May 31st, 2017

Michigan State and Notre Dame will be kicking off under the lights.The Spartans and Irish are scheduled for an 8 p.m. kickoff at Spartan Stadium on Sept. 23, to be broadcast on FOX, the network announced on Wednesday.

Source: MLive.com

May 31st, 2017

It’s been a busy day for Michigan State basketball schedule news. Along with the announcement of the PK80 – Phil Knight Invitational brackets and a first-round matchup with Georgetown, the Spartans also revealed two other non-conference dates. MSU will host Southern Utah on Dec. 9 and Long Beach State on Dec. 21. The Long Beach State game had been reported before by Spartan Tailgate and others, but the date being set is new information.

Source: Spartan Tailgate

May 31st, 2017

The 2017 Michigan State men’s golf season saw a little bit of everything: success, disappointment, injuries and yet another trip to the NCAA Tournament. Despite it being a season of ups and downs, MSU found a way for the highs to prevail.

Source: Michigan State Official Athletic Site

May 31st, 2017

Michigan State’s path in the first-ever Phil Knight Invitational is set.And it won’t be easy. The Spartans will open play in the unique four-day, three-game, two-bracket event against Georgetown on Nov. 23 in Portland. The following day, Michigan State will face either Connecticut or Oregon. In the finale, MSU will play either North Carolina, Arkansas, Oklahoma or Portland. The full bracket can be viewed here.

Source: MLive.com

May 31st, 2017

The Spartans season ended earlier than they would have liked. It was also earlier than what most people (myself included) predicted during the preseason.A lot of analysts had them finishing somewhere around 4-6 in the conference. Unfortunately, MSU ended ninth in the B1G and did not get an invite to the conference tournament.

Source: The Only Colors

May 31st, 2017

Emmanuel Flowers was helping his older brother check in for youth football when a passing coach spotted him and offered some advice. “You’re a big kid, you should be playing football right now,” Flowers recalls being told as a third grader. Just like that, Flowers took the tip and started playing. Now the three-star cornerback is less than two weeks away from arriving at Michigan State as a member of the Spartans’ 2017 class.

Source: MLive.com

May 30th, 2017

Former Michigan State football All-Americans Dean Look and Andre Rison will be inducted into the Michigan Sports Hall of Fame, the organization announced Tuesday. Look and Rison, who are members of the MSU Athletics Hall of Fame, will officially join the statewide hall of fame on Sept. 15 at the Max M. Fisher Music Center in Detroit. The 2017 class was selected by “a statewide, blue-ribbon group of veteran sports journalists, select college and professional sports administrators, MSHOF members, the MSHOF B

Source: Land of 10

May 30th, 2017

Michigan State landed another quality walk-on Tuesday when Southfield (Mich.) Christian’s Brock Washington announced he had committed to the Spartans.A 6-foot-4, 185-pound wing, Washington held an offer from Buffalo and had heard interest from Colgate, Central Michigan, Oakland and Detroit Mercy. However, he turned down the scholarship offer to pay his own way at Michigan State.

Source: Spartan Tailgate

May 30th, 2017

Last August, Thomas Kithier committed to Michigan State as a member of the class of 2018. The 6’8′ skilled forward is a hyper-competitive Michigan native, who grew up a diehard Spartans fan. With the hassle of recruiting in his rear view, the four-star Kithier has been able to focus on his physical and skill development, while his peers are distracted with endless texts from college coaches. This year, while teaming up with future college teammate Foster Loyer, they’ve led All-Ohio Red to a 13-3 record and a berth in the coveted Peach Jam Championship in July.

Source: Spartan Tailgate

May 30th, 2017

May 30th, 2017

Michael Dowell, a three-star recruit from Lakewood, Ohio, made his verbal commitment to the Spartans official, spurning a long list of other suitors. While Dowell’s commitment is noteworthy on its own due to his playmaking ability, it’s especially significant for MSU. Dowell is the younger brother of current Spartans Andrew, a junior linebacker, and David, a redshirt sophomore safety.

Source: Spartan Avenue

May 30th, 2017

The decision brings an end to a period of nearly four months during which Blackwell was suspended with pay by the school but had no final resolution on his status.

Source: MLive

May 30th, 2017

As the younger brother of two Michigan State football players, Michael Dowell knows the program in ways many recruits don’t. He knows the ins and outs of the team’s challenging weightlifting program already, and how team members are expected to watch film. He knows about how players are subjected to extra running if a teammate in their group hasn’t met expectations.

Source: MLive.com

May 30th, 2017

A backcourt with one of the most well-respected team captains in college basketball coming off of the bench (Nairn) to assist two budding players – one of the nation’s former top prospects (Langford) and the player who arguably has the best set of passing skills in college basketball (Winston) – doesn’t sound like a “problem” to most. But behind Nairn, there’s not much depth after that. McQuaid and Ahrens are the only players left on the roster that can get legitimate time in the rotation in the backcourt, and even Ahrens will see a lot of his minutes at small forward.

Source: Detroit Free Press

May 30th, 2017

Over the past decade, MSU coach Mark Dantonio has put Spartan football on the map as a perennial powerhouse. With so many fantastic moments, it can be difficult to remember every good memory. So if you think it would be handy to have a single list describing the top ten MSU football moments in the Dantonio era along with a video highlighting each of them, you’re in luck.

Source: Impact Sports

May 29th, 2017

Michigan State received a commitment from Lakewood (Ohio) St. Edward defensive back Michael Dowell on Monday. Dowell is the younger brother of current Spartan football players Andrew and David Dowell. Rated by Scout as a four-star safety, the 6-foot-0, 195-pound Dowell is set to try another position.“ Coach (Harlon) Barnett has said I’ll start out by playing cornerback,” Dowell said.

Source: Detroit News

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