As Draymond Green’s corner 3-pointer swished through the basket Thursday night during Game 6 of the NBA Finals, nearly 20,000 Golden State Warriors fans rose to their feet in celebration. And inside a Hooters in Saginaw, at least one Warriors fan did likewise.“Saginawwwww!” Jeremiah McLaurin hollered, more than 2,000 miles away from the game action in Green’s hometown.
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If you’ve seen Morris Peterson since the Toronto Raptors beat the Golden State Warriors on Thursday night to win the NBA championship, you’ve likely seen a man in sunglasses, Cuban cigar in hand, blissful smile carved in his face. That’ll be his look “for the next month,” he says.
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Wheaton (Ill.) Warrenville South kicker Jack Olsen posted on social media on Saturday afternoon his intention to play college football for MSU. “… I would like to thank Coach (Mark) Dantonio and Coach (Shayne) Graham for putting your trust in me, I am 100% committed to Michigan State. #GoGreen,” Olsen wrote.
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The Michigan State football staff is hard at work on the recruiting trail, and the Spartans’ efforts paid off Friday when they secured their first commitment of the summer. Kyle King, a 3-star defensive end from New Palestine (Indiana) High School, gave his verbal commitment to the Spartans, choosing MSU over Purdue, Indiana, Air Force and a host of Mid-American Conference schools.
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Nick Ward will get a chance to showcase himself for the NBA franchise closest to where he played college basketball. The former Michigan State center is set to participate in a pre-draft workout Friday with the Detroit Pistons, the franchise said. Ward reportedly took part in a workout with the Orlando Magic on May 31.
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The 2020 recruiting class for the Michigan State Spartans is only in the beginning stages, but it is already shaping up to be an outstanding group. One of the major commitments from the class comes from Darius Snow, a four-star safety out of Hebron High School in Texas.
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This week, we talk about the NBA draft and where to expect Nick Ward and other Big Ten players to land (1:322). From there, we move to the Moneyball Pro-Am, which begins on June 27 and we break down the players and storylines that we’ll be paying the most attention to (23:57). And then we end by hitting the latest MSU news in War Drill, including Tom Izzo self-reporting a violation, Duke, Joey Hauser, Connor Cook, new B1G commish and WR transfer Jaylen Reed (43:27).
The Super Spartan Bros dive deep into Dantonio era stats to see what the really important numbers are and how they may impact the 2019 season.
Marcus Bingham came to Michigan State last summer as its highest-rated recruit and with an intriguing size and skill set. He stood 6-foot-11 had longer arms than Jaren Jackson Jr. He also had legitimate shooting ability, dating back to his days as a guard before a high school growth spurt. But thoughts of him breaking into the playing rotation and contributing as a freshman in 2018-19were quickly squashed.
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While it’s way too early to make any sort of definitive statement on how the 2019 football season will go, we can make educated guesses based on what we know right now. Again, a lot can and will change from now until the opening game on Aug. 30, but let’s go game-by-game and make early predictions now.
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Early indications are that XFL 2.0 aims to be a more legitimate operation than the first iteration — both led by WWE’s Vince McMahon — with Oliver Luck in place as commissioner. The league is holding tryouts in each of its eight cities this summer as it progresses toward its debut in February 2020, and a few Michigan State players have turned up to try to find a home in the spring football league.
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Izzo taking Iron Mountain players through the Breslin violated NCAA rules about coaches having contact with potential recruits. While high school players are allowed to tour facilities and meet with college coaches most days of the year, they aren’t allowed to if they’re at that facility to play a game. The fact that Iron Mountain was competing in the Breslin Center the following day made Izzo’s tour against the rules.
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Adam Berghorst was supposed to be on Michigan State’s campus this week. The Zeeland East High School graduate was planning on attending freshman orientation, scheduling classes and working out with the football team. Instead, Berghorst is still at home and weighing an uncertain future.
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The Michigan State football program added another analyst to the staff and it’s a familiar name. Former Spartan defensive back Jesse Johnson, who spent the last two years as a graduate assistant with the team, was promoted in the offseason to a full-time position as a defensive analyst.
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Recently, Sports Illustrated released a list of 117 players who could compete for the Heisman Trophy, and a small portion (eight players), were defensive stars. It’s a slim percentage of the candidates, but there’s also a slim chance that a defensive player wins, too. Joe Bachie was one of the eight defensive players on the list.
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You can already sense the anticipation for this coming Michigan State basketball season. Having Duke now on the home schedule adds some oomph five months out. This season didn’t need Duke, though. The Spartans, as it stands in June, are a consensus preseason No. 1, returning several pillars from a beloved Final Four team, with substantial intrigue surrounding new pieces and the possibilities for their younger players. Hope is sky high. People are pumped.
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June may be a slow month for college football fans, but the programs we root for are as busy as can be with camps and recruiting. Michigan State has hosted a number of players over the weekend. Among the group are two highly ranked quarterbacks Michael Alaimo and the first-team all-name Chubba Purdy.
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In one of the closes races in event history, senior Justine Kiprotich finished second in the men’s 1,500m at the NCAA Track & Field Championships at Mike A. Myers Stadium at the University of Texas on Friday. This is his second runner-up performance after finishing second in 2017 and seventh in 2018.
Michigan State has played some murderous non-conference schedules under Tom Izzo’s play-anyone-anywhere scheduling philosophy. This season’s slate may take the cake. The Thursday announcement of Duke’s visit to Breslin Center next fall as part of the Big Ten/ACC Challenge added to what was already a difficult slate for the Spartans next year.
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