Cam Edwards isn’t afraid to have a little fun. The University of Connecticut transfer has brought plenty of energy and experience to Michigan State University’s running back room, but Edwards has one goal in mind — to win. “Most importantly, I want to win,” Edwards said at Wednesday’s football media availability.
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Cam Edwards has landed on another prominent watch list, this time earning recognition on the Doak Walker Award Watch List for the nation’s most outstanding running back. Earlier this month, Edwards was named to the Maxwell Award Watch List, presented annually to the most outstanding player in college football.
Bartholomae put together the best athletic department the MAC could offer. He hired Lance Taylor as the Broncos’ head football coach early in his tenure, and Taylor delivered a MAC championship and 10 wins last year. Bartholomae was also there for the men’s ice hockey team’s national title in 2025, WMU’s first national title in any sport in 60 years. Western Michigan finished atop the MAC in the Learfield Director’s Cup standings each of the last three years.
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Pat Fitzgerald is turning over the keys to the guy who ended up replacing Chiles in the final four games of 2025, Alessio Milivojevic… who was recruited by Jonathan Smith. Okay, maybe we aren’t out of the woods yet. The good news is that the Spartans did see improved quarterback play in the final month of last year under Alessio than they did for the majority of the two seasons that Chiles was under center. Can Milivojevic, with an offseason spent as the presumed incumbent starter, take a step (or a few step) in his development?
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Michigan State University President Kevin M. Guskiewicz, Ph.D., with the support of the Board of Trustees has selected Dan Bartholomae as the university’s next vice president and director of intercollegiate athletics. Bartholomae currently serves as the vice president and director of athletics at Western Michigan University, where he has led the department since 2022.
Michigan State’s search for its next athletic director has come to an end. The Spartans have hired Dan Bartholomae away from Western Michigan to take over as the program’s new AD, according to ESPN – which Spartan Tailgate can confirm. The former Bronco replaces J Batt, who left for Kentucky after just one year at the helm in East Lansing.
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The Big Ten may be a stout conference again this fall, but there’s something in the air in East Lansing that makes this Spartans team an intriguing group to follow. It could become one of the bigger surprises in the league while setting the foundation for long-term stability and success at Michigan State.
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The running back room looks a whole lot different than it did a year ago. Michigan State lost leading rusher Makhi Frazier to the transfer portal, while Elijah Tau-Tolliver exhausted his eligibility. That leaves Brandon Tullis as the most experienced returning back. Coach Fitz and his staff didn’t waste much time rebuilding the room, either. They hit the transfer portal hard.
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Charles Brantley has already had a memorable career at Michigan State – Gus Johnson’s call of his game-sealing interception against Michigan in 2021 – “Brantley! Ball game!” – is the most well-known line from the broadcast booth of a Spartan game since Blake O’Neill had trouble with the snap.
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One thing that has been stable for Michigan State football over the last several years is Courtney Hawkins, who is set to begin his seventh season coaching MSU’s wideouts. Pat Fitzgerald will be the fifth head coach Hawkins has worked under at MSU, having been here for the end of the Mark Dantonio era before serving on the staffs of Mel Tucker, Harlon Barnett (interim), and Jonathan Smith.
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Michigan State senior linebacker Jordan Hall has been named to the Butkus Award Watch List, the Butkus Foundation announced on Thursday. The Butkus Award is presented each year to the nation’s top linebacker. Michigan State’s Percy Snow won the award in 1989, becoming the first player to win the Butkus Award and the Lombardi Award in the same season.
Michigan State’s women’s soccer team opened the 2026 season with a 2-0 victory over visiting Xavier on Wednesday night at DeMartin Stadium. The game was a matchup that resonated on the national scale on opening night around Division I women’s soccer. The Spartans are ranked seventh nationally in the preseason polls. Xavier, an NCAA Tournament team a year ago out of the BIG EAST, received votes in the preseason survey.
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Michigan State hockey has added forward Diego Johnson to its roster to replace former commit Nikita Klepov, according to Nathaniel Bott. Johnson, an undrafted forward who will turn 20 in September, enters the NCAA after several seasons of junior hockey. The right-shot forward posted 46 points (25g-21a) in 68 regular-season games for the Penticton Vees of the Western Hockey League, finishing with a +25 on-ice rating.
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Michigan State football fans of all ages are invited to attend “Meet the Spartans,” powered by Biggby Coffee, on Wednesday, Aug. 26 from 4-6 p.m. in Spartan Stadium. Admission is free with the download of a digital ticket to be scanned in for entry into Spartan Stadium.
For the first half of the 2025 season, defensive coordinator Joe Rossi and the Michigan State University defense struggled to keep anyone out of the end zone. By the season’s end, the Spartans looked like a revitalized unit, fueled by energy and effort. The Green and White allowed 191 total points at 31.8 points per game (PPG) throughout the first six games of the season. Despite an uptick in competition that included Indiana, Michigan, Penn State and Iowa, MSU surrendered 168 points — an average of 28 PPG — over its final six games.
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The loss of Jack Velling and Michael Masunas will be felt but there is potential that this year could be a battle for playing time. With some retuning players looking to make their mark and prove themselves, a DII transfer with a storied career, and a trio of freshman, the starting position could just go to the hot hand.
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Michigan State basketball has officially set up another pair of non-conference games on its 2026-27 schedule. The team announced via social media on Tuesday that the Spartans would be taking on Quinnipiac on Monday, Nov. 2, in the season opener, and then a game against Penn on Tuesday, Dec. 29. Both games will be at the Breslin Center in East Lansing. This now means that seven of MSU’s 12 non-conference games/slots for the coming season are filled in.
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