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Michigan State running back Le'Veon Bell scored 13 touchdowns and nearly rushed for 1,000 yards as a sophomore, so college football analysts are expecting big things out of him in his junior year. BTN.com senior writer Tom Dienhart named Bell the No. 3 running back in the Big Ten behind Wisconsin's Montee Ball and Nebraska's Rex Burkhead.
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The Michigan State women's tennis team will feature a student-athlete every week this spring in attempt to "Meet the Spartans". This week sophomore Jennifer Yen (Farmington Hills, Mich.) sat down with msuspartans.com to answer some questions about her interests off the court and why she came to MSU. Yen went 1-1 in doubles play this year at the No. 3 spot and appeared in her first Big Ten match of her career against Illinois.
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It should go without saying that the MSU softball team is in need of a dramatic turnaround next season if it wants to avoid repeating a tragic season that saw the Spartans go without a single conference win in Big Ten play.
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Michigan State senior right-hander Tony Bucciferro has been named the Big Ten Co-Pitcher of the Week, the conference office announced Monday afternoon. Bucciferro threw a five-hit, complete game shutout and struck out nine batters, one shy of his career high, to lead Michigan State past Iowa, 6-0, on Friday, May 11 at McLane Baseball Stadium.
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The Michigan State Track & Field program wrapped up the final day of the Big Ten Outdoor Championships yesterday with five women making trips to the podium. The women finished the weekend amassing a total of 72 points for sixth-place in the conference standings, while the men tallied 19 points for tenth.
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Michigan State will take its talents to South Beach and play at Miami on Nov. 28 as part of the Big Ten/ACC Challenge televised on ESPN's family of networks. The game pits Tom Izzo against Miami coach Jim Larranaga, who in 2006 led No. 11-seeded George Mason to an improbable run to the Final Four that began with a first-round upset win against the Spartans.
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A forgettable season for the MSU softball team ended Saturday with more blunder than bang as the Spartans dropped their 19th consecutive game in a weekend-series sweep by Indiana. MSU ended its 2012 campaign losing 26 of its last 27 contests and finished the season winless in Big Ten competition. The team finished 11-42 on the season with its last victory coming on a 6-1 decision at Central Michigan on April 4.
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Despite another strong pitching performance — this time by junior pitcher Andrew Waszak — the Spartans (32-17 overall, 11-9 Big Ten) let a lead evaporate late in the game and fell 2-1 to the Hawkeyes (20-25, 8-12) Saturday at McLane Baseball Stadium at Old College Field.
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When Boise State rolls into Spartan Stadium for an Aug. 31 matchup with Michigan State, college football's all-time winningest QB might be on the Broncos' sidelines, but only because it'll be a short drive from his new home.
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Michigan State basketball coach Tom Izzo didn’t enter this past season with sky-high expectations for the Spartans, but under his direction, the team ended up capturing a Big Ten championship and a top seed in the NCAA tournament. “We adjusted our goals as we went,” Izzo said Friday while serving as the keynote speaker for Davenport University’s Excellence in Business fundraising gala. “The reason we did -- tremendous leadership.”
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Bring up the NCAA Tournament and the year 1979 around East Lansing, and the reaction is predictable. It was that spring that Earvin "Magic" Johnson helped lead Michigan State to its first basketball national championship. That year has become synonymous with championship basketball for Spartans fans. But there was another NCAA milestone that season, one that took place only a few months later and only a Kirk Gibson home run from Jenison Field House.
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While Draymond Green was putting together a Big Ten player of the year campaign as a senior at Michigan State, NBA talent evaluators began envisioning him as a first-round draft pick. More recently, Green has been hearing he could be selected in the 20-to-30 range of the first round.
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Fans are buzzing about unbeaten 29-year-old heavyweight contender Seth Mitchell right now, so much so that at the recent Mayweather-Cotto fight, “Mayhem” was practically mobbed by fans and internet reporters.
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Adreian Payne made a massive jump in performance from his freshman season to his sophomore year. The Michigan State Spartans' 6-foot-10, 240-pound center will likely make another leap his junior year.
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freep.com —
"I try to take a leadership role with this team," he said during spring practice last month. "The seniors know how things should be done, and we want to carry on that legacy of success that we've had since we've been here. I have always felt like a leader, but now I am taking on that role even more. I am being more vocal about it. Before I was leading by my actions, but now I have to lead by my words, too."
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