Mark Dantonio, who retired as Michigan State football’s winningest coach following the 2019 season, is in line for one more big victory this winter. Dantonio was one of nine coaches named as College Football Hall of Fame finalists by the National Football Foundation on Monday afternoon.
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Former Michigan State baseball player Kyle Bischoff has signed a free agent contract with the Minnesota Twins. After signing with the Twins, Bischoff was assigned to the Florida Complex League Twins, who are the Rookie-level affiliate of the Minnesota Twins, competing in the Florida Complex League of Minor League Baseball.
The Michigan State track & field team travels to Austin, Texas for the 2023 NCAA Outdoor Track & Field Championships at Texas’ Mike A. Myers Stadium from Wednesday-Saturday, June 7-10.
Michigan State athletics’ EverGreen NIL program was selected as the Best Institutional Program at the 2023 NIL Summit. The national award was presented Saturday night at the NIL Awards gala at the College Football Hall of Fame in Atlanta. The award recognizes a college or institution that has shown exceptional commitment to supporting its student-athletes in maximizing their Name, Image and Likeness opportunities through a combination of education, resources and industry-leading innovation.
“As an owner of two professional sports teams, it was asked that Mat/UWM discontinue this NIL partnership to avoid any actual or perceived conflict of interest,” according to the letter, which does not specify the entity that asked for the termination of the deal. The letter goes on to state that “UWM and Mat remain dedicated to supporting Michigan State University and the athletic programs and will continue to do so within the guardrails established.”
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Michigan State’s Brock Vradenburg was named to Collegiate Baseball’s Third-Team All-America list, announced by the publication on Thursday. Vradenburg garnered MSU’s first All-America accolade since Mason Erla collected second team honors in 2020.
Michigan State head women’s basketball coach Robyn Fralick announced the addition of Kennedy Blair (Dearborn, Mich.) to the 2023-24 roster, as a preferred walk-on. “We are so excited to have Kennedy join our huddle,” Fralick said. “What stands out the most about watching Kennedy play is the incredible joy with which she plays. She elevates those around her with her passion for playing. We love her feel for the game, her ability to score and rebound. We are thrilled for her to be a Spartan.”
Van Andel Arena, Michigan Technological University, and Michigan State University have signed a four-year extension to the annual Great Lakes Invitational to keep the tournament in Grand Rapids. The 57th annual tournament will take place on December 28-29, 2023, and will open with Michigan Tech against Alaska and Michigan State versus Ferris State.
Kickoffs and game times have become a hot topic for Michigan State in the wake of last week’s announcement that the regular-season finale against Penn State has been moved to Ford Field. And on Wednesday, the upcoming schedule for the Spartans gained even more clarity as more start times and television networks were announced by the Big Ten and its media partners.
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Michigan State basketball just got a whole lot better on Wednesday. With news of Jaden Akins and AJ Hoggard not getting invited to the combine and not entering into the transfer portal, the belief amongst fans was that they’d be coming back.
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Michigan State track & field senior Lauren Freeland earned her first trip to the NCAA Outdoor Championships in the 1500m to wrap up the final day of action at the NCAA East Preliminary Round in Jacksonville, Florida, Saturday evening. Freeland set a personal best of 4:14.09 to finish seventh in her heat and snag the final time-qualifying spot in the event. She will make her first NCAA Outdoor Championships appearance in two weeks in Austin, Texas.
Michigan State track & field’s John Petruno qualified for the NCAA Outdoor Championships in the 1500m on the third day of the NCAA East Preliminary Round in Jacksonville, Florida, marking the third-straight day a Spartan has qualified to the national championships.
Eighth-seeded Michigan State battled fourth-seeded Nebraska and a crowd of over 5,300 mostly red-clad Husker fans tough, before falling Friday night in a 4-0 loss in the Big Ten Baseball Tournament at Charles Schwab Field Omaha.
Former Michigan State head football coach Denny Stolz passed away on Thursday, May 25. He was 89 (1933-2023). Stolz joined the MSU staff in 1971 and served as the defensive coordinator for the final two seasons of Hall of Fame Coach Duffy Daugherty’s career before being appointed the program’s 16th head coach on Dec. 13, 1972. The Spartans were 19-13-1 in three seasons under Stolz (1973-75), including back-to-back seven-win campaigns in 1974 and 1975.
Once again, Alante Brown says he’s headed to Michigan State. The former Nebraska wide receiver announced his commitment to the Spartans on Friday, a little more than a month after entering the transfer portal. Nebraska transfer Alante Brown, a wide receiver, announced his commitment to the Spartans on Friday. Brown committed to Michigan State as part of the 2019 recruiting class but did not sign before attending St. Thomas More Prep in Connecticut. He then signed with Nebraska as part of the Cornhuskers’ 2020 class.
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“I think to move forward in making sure our department and Michigan State and Michigan State athletics are moving forward in a positive way, there’s going to be some decisions that not everyone agrees with,” Michigan State athletic director Alan Haller said Thursday on The Drive with Jack podcast. “And I understand that and I’m comfortable with making those decisions if the process to get to those decisions is rational and not reckless.”
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Wyatt Rush came on in relief and closed the door on Rutgers while the Michigan State bats rallied the Spartans to a 6-4 Victory for MSU in the Big Ten Baseball Tournament as the eighth-seeded Spartans eliminated the fifth-seeded Scarlet Knights at Charles Schwab Field Omaha.
Playing a day later than scheduled due to storms postponing Tuesday’s first round matches, Michigan State’s Ozan Baris and Max Sheldon rolled to a 6-4, 6-2 victory over top-seeded Toby Samuel and Connor Thomson (South Carolina) in their opening match to advance to the NCAA Doubles Championship Round of 16 Wednesday afternoon.
Michigan State’s men’s basketball team will host Butler in the 2023 Gavitt Tipoff Games, matchups between teams from the Big Ten Conference and the Big East Conference. The Butler at Michigan State game is one of eight to be held this year in the eighth edition of the Gavitt Games, named in honor of Dave Gavitt, the founder of the Big East Conference and a basketball visionary.