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he Spartans' defense looks like the single best unit in the Big Ten entering the season. Spring practice only enhanced our opinion of Pat Narduzzi's group, which has no shortage of stars. While the passing game needs work, Arnett's presence should help, and the Spartans will rely more on their run game with Le'Veon Bell and an improved offensive line.
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Will Gholston is on a Heisman watch list as Chris Huston of Heismanpundit.com included the junior as one of 10 defensive players ("non-candidates") who could find their way to New York as finalists.
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An honorable-mention All-Big Ten pick in 2011, McDonald will be an anchor for what will be the best line of the Mark Dantonio era. At least seven players with starting experience are up front for the Spartans. The fifth-year senior will enter his third season as the starter at right guard. McDonald is a physical blocker who has made 26 career starts (17 in a row) and will pave the way for star running back Le’Veon Bell.
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The Spartans will get new home and road uniforms and an alternate "vintage" uniform to go along with them. While there is no news yet on what the uniforms will look like, when Anastos spoke with Davis he talked a bit about the new sweaters.
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Former Michigan State standout Daymond Green is a month away from the biggest day of his life, but he spent a small part of Thursday at Helen DeVos Children’s Hospital helping encourage kids whose lives are threatened.
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The positional battle for the right to replace Trenton Robinson as the starting Michigan State free safety rages on. Even after coach Mark Dantonio gave sophomore Kurtis Drummond the edge on less-experienced redshirt freshman RJ Williamson for the job at the conclusion of spring practice last month, the position is very much unsettled.
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The Miami Dolphins announced they have signed rookie wide receiver B.J. Cunninghamto his four-year rookie contract. The Michigan State product was a sixth-round pick (183rd overall) last month, and is the first of the Dolphins' draftees to sign a deal.
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Next year’s Michigan State squad could top last season’s team. The bulk of Tom Izzo’s game plan went through Draymond Green. That scheme carried the Spartans to a No. 1 seed in the NCAA tournament but proved detrimental in the NCAA tournament. Next year’s Spartans will be a more versatile crew with Harris’ arrival. The five-star wing is a premier athlete and he’s gold on the break. Harris, the No. 11 prospect in the 2012 class, gives MSU a potent athlete on the perimeter.
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When Trent Baalke said last month that he hoped seventh-round pick Cam Johnson would arrive with a chip on his shoulder, the message likely was aimed not at the reporters in the room but at Johnson. The outside linebacker is known to be a bit detached and dispassionate, and Baalke already may have been trying to light the proverbial fire beneath him. That's not an issue for Trenton Robinson, who is at a full boil as soon as he wakes.
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"We've made some headway with Greece, with the venue, but we're kind of in a holding pattern right now," he said this week in Chicago. "I do believe that there is opportunities in basketball to have value back from an NCAA perspective and more specifically from a Big Ten conference perspective, sending some teams over to play in various cities, and kind of bring the game of college basketball to them.
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