Football freep.com —  Johnny Adams may go later than hoped in this week’s NFL draft, and certainly later than analysts expected before the 2012 season, but he’s expected to go somewhere — and that should mean double-digit Michigan State draftees over two years for the first time in more than a decade.
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Men's Basketball theb1gtime.com —  The 2012-13 season was an interesting one for Spartan fans, as not many can be disappointed with the amount of wins, as MSU compiled 27 victories. Michigan State also seemed to beat every team that they should have, only losing one game to a team that did not make the NCAA Tournament. That loss came in the season opener against UConn, a team banned from the post-season.
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Softball statenews.com —  It’s safe to say Jacquie Joseph and the MSU softball team are hungry to get back to action in today’s doubleheader against Ohio State. The Spartans (21-18 overall, 7-4 Big Ten) have not played a game in more than a week after a handful of weather-related cancellations. Since last Tuesday’s 2-0 loss to Notre Dame, a home tilt with Toledo the next day was rained out and when the team flew to Minnesota last weekend, the whole three-game series was cancelled because of a snow storm.
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Baseball statenews.com —  For the first time in a week, the MSU baseball team will take the field when they travel to South Bend, Ind., to take on Notre Dameat 5:35 p.m. today. Three cancellations at Minnesota last weekend and another one on Tuesday evening against Ball State — a game that would have been played at Lansing’s Cooley Law School Stadium because of flooding on MSU’s grounds — brings the Spartans (22-11, 5-4 Big Ten) total cancellations on the year to six.
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Football theonlycolors.com —  Gholston was an early entrant to the NFL Draft, declaring after his true junior season. He was the first "five-star" player to sign with MSU since the star system came about, choosing MSU over the likes of Alabama, Ohio State, Florida, USC and others in 2010, and his signing was a prelude to a somewhat historic run at MSU.
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Football mlive.com —  Smith Jr. attended the Spartans' Green-White Spring Game on Saturday at Spartan Stadium and made his verbal commitment to the Michigan State coaching staff that afternoon.
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Football theonlycolors.com —  Dion Sims is an early entrant to the NFL draft, declaring after his redshirt junior season. Sims has had an interesting career at MSU. He chose MSU over the likes of Ohio State, Tennessee and Michigan in the class of 2009. Despite tight end being a very crowded position, Sims recorded 11 catches for 133 and three touchdowns as a freshman. He played in all 13 games and was Big Ten All-Freshman team. After football ended, he briefly joined the basketball team. He was mostly on the practice squad, but did play late in one game. His MSU basketball career was short-lived, but his football career appeared bright.
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Football detroitnews.com —  Opinions vary on the 6-foot-2, 230-pound Bell, but the consensus seems to be he won't be selected Thursday, Day 1 of the draft. Somewhere on Day 2 (rounds 2 and 3), however, seems to be the safer bet.
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Football mlive.com —  After running through Bell's NFL combine numbers, which included his size (6-foot-1, 230 pounds), his 40-yard dash time (4.6 seconds), vertical leap (31 1/2 inches), broad jump (9-10) and 3-cone time (6.75 seconds, "excellent,'' Cerrato said, the former NFL executive broke down Bell's strengths and weaknesses on the football field.
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Football mlive.com —  As of this week, every mock draft available projects that four Michigan State Spartans will be taken this year. Running back Le'Veon Bell should go the highest of the four, while defensive end William Gholston, tight end Dion Sims and cornerback Johnny Adams have varying round projections - although no mock draft excludes any one of them.
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Baseball msuspartans.com —  Michigan State baseball attempts to get back to action against Notre Dame on Wednesday at 5:35 p.m. in South Bend, Ind. The Spartans have lost four straight games due to inclement weather and 11 games this season have been affected. The Irish are 22-16 on the year and fell at Toledo yesterday, 15-3.
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Football mlive.com —  Nick Hill used his Twitter account to alert his fans that he has undergone surgery for a sports hernia, and that the surgery went well and he's doing fine. "Had a hernia repaired. Rehab starts in 3…2…,'' Hill Tweeted from his account, @NickHill_20 on Wednesday morning.
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Ice Hockey msuspartans.com —  As the teams in the National Hockey League are either fighting for positions or resting their top players with a post-season spot already secured, playoff hockey is about to begin in the American Hockey League (AHL) , the NHL's top affiliates. In the East Coast Hockey League (ECHL), the first round of playoffs have already been completed, and the semifinal rounds are in heated competition as the squads make their playoff pushes.
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Men's Basketball espn.go.com —  If the proposal goes through, teams will essentially be allowed to practice 30 times in a 42-day period before the first game on Nov. 8. They could start those practices as early as the last week of September or first week of October.
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Football espn.go.com —  "I told my lift group, 'When you step over the white line and onto the practice field, you've got to realize everything we do is business,'" Maxwell told ESPN.com. "Accountability has to come before friendship. Accountability has to come before somebody's feelings. That's going to help us with the little details, the little inches. "
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