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“Probably one of the biggest things is speed right now,” Reed said when asked about how Michigan State’s offense might look different this year. “I believe we can attack them vertically. I mean we’ve already got good (running) backs, so we can spread them out. We also have very talented, big, strong receivers where we can take the top off a little bit.
Source: Detroit News
Jayden Reed knew if the Big Ten didn’t bring back football this fall, there was a chance he could go nearly two years without playing a game. Instead, the Michigan State football wide receiver and his new coaching staff are back working to breathe new life into a stagnant offense in a hurry.
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A year ago, Elijah Collins was just hoping to get a shot. Nearly 1,000 yards rushing and five touchdowns later, the sophomore running back knows things have changed. “People want my spot,” Collins said, “and I know that.”
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This article is and isn’t about basketball. Basketball has brought us to this point, but Mady Sissoko’s remarkable journey to America is about much more than basketball. It’s a story of a young boy, growing into a man, in a land far away from home. It’s about patience and perseverance, fate and a bit of luck, and the tireless work ethic that led Mady to Michigan State.
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Somewhere last fall — between August and three more months of largely inept Spartan offense — Reed became the most intriguing player in MSU’s football program: A transfer from WMU sitting out, a former freshman All-American receiver who’d scored four touchdowns in one game and returned a punt 93 yards for a score in another. Those things seemed so out of reach for the Spartans.
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One of the biggest questions of this offseason (and the last few, really) is simple, yet complicated. How is the offense going to look this year? On Monday evening the media was able to hop on a Zoom call with two of the biggest names on the Spartan offense as running back Elijah Collins and wide receiver Jayden Reed fielded all sorts of questions.
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Both of Michigan State’s NBA Draft hopefuls — forward Xavier Tillman Sr. and point guard Cassius Winston — have been selected to participate in the NBA Draft Combine. Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, this year’s combine takes on a completely different look. Instead of the prospects gathering in one site, they’ll be able to conduct in-person and virtual segments starting Monday and running through mid-November.
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Only five players with a Hungarian passport have ever heard their name called at the NHL Entry Draft. Kristóf Papp hopes to be the sixth. It’s all he’s ever wanted since a family friend introduced him to the sport as a child.“I started playing hockey back in Hungary when I was 6-years-old,” Papp told EliteProspects. “We had a family friend who just took me around to try out a couple of different sports. I went skating one time next to a team that was practicing, and ever since then, I’ve just been in love with hockey.”
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With less than a month until Big Ten teams enter the regular season, Michigan State is getting ready to ramp up preseason workouts to prepare for its opener against Rutgers, coach Mel Tucker said on the newest episode of the Amway Coaches Poll podcast. “Our players are actually in better shape now than when we started camp the first time, before the postponement,” he said.
Start at 26:30 for Coach Tucker
Michigan State football will begin full-contact practice for the first time since December on Wednesday as it finally begins earnest preparation for the much-delayed debut of Mel Tucker’s regime.
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The Mel Tucker era of Michigan State football is underway. For real this time. Finally. Well, probably. Everything is on a week-to-week basis around the college football world this fall, as evident by the number of games that have been canceled or postponed due to COVID-19 issues. Yet even before Tucker’s transition from Mark Dantonio’s regime was delayed multiple times over the past seven months, the Spartans had a significant number of questions.
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Michigan State had 30 athletes test positive for COVID-19 between Sept. 15-21, the school announced on Tuesday. MSU said it conducted 369 tests on athletes during that period. Two athletics staff members also returned positive results among the 41 tested during the same period, MSU said.
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The Spartans practiced for more than two hours on Monday in helmets, jerseys, and shorts, according to a press release by the program. Senior linebacker Antjuan Simmons was asked to rate Tucker’s intensity during Monday’s practice on a scale of one to 10. “He’s a 10, and probably plus some,” Simmons said. “He came out with his whistle wet and he was ready to go. … It’s insane. Practice is fast, it’s really fast. The tempo – I don’t know if there’s a point where we’re not running.”
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Michigan State football players were told during their Aug. 11 practice that the fall 2020 football season had been postponed. As they left that day, they had no way of knowing if they would play in the late fall, spring, or even in fall 2021. But players like quarterback Rocky Lombardi said they continued their preparation to be ready for any scenario.
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This year has been an absolute roller coaster for us as human beings. I truly hope we never see anything like it again. I think it’s fair to say that life as we knew it has been affected or altered in one way or another for the majority of the population by the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic
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