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		<title>Average Point Differentials for MSU Coaches</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Aug 2010 04:33:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Pender</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ran across an interesting stat while watching the Big Ten Network&#8217;s Football Preview for Michigan State: 12 losses by 8 points or less since 2007 (Dantonio&#8217;s tenure) The context around the stat was that a focus for MSU this season needs to be doing a better job of closing out games.  The Spartans lost 4 [...]


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		<title>Izzo Staying at MSU</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jun 2010 02:15:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Pender</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The wait came to an end today. In a press release sent out a few hours ago, athletic director Mark Hollis evoked the spirit of fighter Joe Louis, the captain Stevie Yzerman, and even a Wolverine in Bo Schembechler as he announced jointly with Coach Izzo and President Lou Anna K. Simon that Tom Izzo [...]


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		<title>Thoughts on the Tom Izzo Situation</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jun 2010 23:00:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Pender</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is, to be sure, a football blog.  I don&#8217;t know much about basketball.  I&#8217;m not going to pretend that I do.  And because of that, I tend to stay away from posting basketball stories on the site. But this story transcends that.  Tom Izzo has brought so much to Michigan State University.  In many [...]


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		<title>MSU Spring Practice Starts Today</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Mar 2010 04:43:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Pender</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The gridders were back on the practice field today for the first day of spring practice.  Coach Dantonio held a brief press conference where he talked about his objectives for spring ball and covered what he sees as some of the strengths and weaknesses of the team. Division I football programs are allowed 14 spring [...]


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		<title>Listening to Izzo, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Logo</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jan 2010 05:36:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Pender</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I understand all the fuss about the logo. It&#8217;s a big deal for a lot of people because it&#8217;s visual representation of how they associate themselves with the university.  They buy clothes with the logo, car magnets with the logo, baby onsies with the logo, can coozies with the logo&#8230;you get the idea.  The logo [...]


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		<title>Post-Season Notes</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jan 2010 04:49:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Pender</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A couple of post-bowl game memes I wanted to touch on now that the season is over. Spartans Fall to Texas Tech in Alamo Bowl For all the talk before the game of suspensions and terminations and how it would effect the focus of each team, the game was surprisingly competitive.  MSU lost the game, [...]


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		<title>Texas Tech Suspends Coach Mike Leach for Alamo Bowl Against MSU</title>
		<link>http://www.spartan-football.com/blog/texas-tech-suspends-coach-mike-leach-for-alamo-bowl-against-msu</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Dec 2009 22:16:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Pender</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This just in from ESPN: Texas Tech has suspended coach Mike Leach from all duties, including coaching the Valero Alamo Bowl, after receiving a complaint from a player and his parents. Apparently the suspension stems from a complain by a player and his parents about the treatment of the player after he sustained some kind [...]


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		<title>Is the Kansas Job Really Better than&#8230;?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Dec 2009 23:34:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Pender</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The fall of Mark Mangino at Kansas was one of the more surprising, and quick, coaching downfalls I&#8217;ve seen in quite a while.  But more surprising, perhaps, was the short list of coaches that Kansas was apparently interested in.  Apparently on the list: Jim Harbaugh, Stanford Brett Bielema, Wisconsin Tim Brewster, Minnesota Chris Petersen, Boise [...]


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		<title>Brian Kelly in as Notre Dame&#8217;s Coach, What it Means for MSU</title>
		<link>http://www.spartan-football.com/blog/brian-kelly-in-as-notre-dames-coach-what-it-means-for-msu</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Dec 2009 20:06:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Pender</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Even if you&#8217;ve been living under the proverbial rock, you&#8217;ve no doubt heard that former Cincinnati coach Brian Kelly has left the Bearcats to become the new head coach for the Fighting Irish.  The official introduction came on Friday, though reports started to surface Thursday afternoon that Kelly was going to be the guy. Kelly, [...]


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		<title>Ferguson: &#8220;It&#8217;s, like, no big deal.&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Dec 2009 16:08:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Pender</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the Freep: Ferguson, who acknowledged the players were present at the incident during a fraternity potluck at Rather Hall, also said none of the men at the altercation were wearing ski masks as some witnesses have claimed. His information is based on discussions with people present at the incident, he said, although he has [...]


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