Thoughts on the Tom Izzo Situation

June 11, 2010

This is, to be sure, a football blog.  I don’t know much about basketball.  I’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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2010 MSU Spring Game Recap – No Stats Allowed

April 24, 2010

I don’t want to read to much into the spring game.  Because, as it was so eloquently put by Pete over at TOC, it doesn’t matter. Why doesn’t it matter?  The short answer is that it doesn’t count in the standings, and the long answer involves a football variant of Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle.  Heisenberg’s uncertainty [...]

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NIKE Unveils New Uniforms

April 23, 2010

Following the Spartan logo mishap, Nike continued to research and develop a new line of merchandise. Much like the overwhelming opposition from Spartan fans, the new varsity uniforms (which are being officially released at a press conference at 3:15 P.M.) are already causing a ruckus across the web. Anybody else think these scream Steve and [...]

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MSU Spring Practice Starts Today

March 23, 2010

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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Super Bowl XLIV – Who Ya Got?

February 7, 2010

We’re just moments away from the kick-off of Super Bowl XLIV.  So, who ya got?

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To Be or Not To Be? No Longer a Question, Hollis Says No Change to MSU Logo

February 5, 2010

In an about face, athletic director Mark Hollis today sent out a message to the students, fans and alumni of MSU: Our identity and branding process is nearing completion and is on schedule for a complete rollout in April. The elements and applications of the brand design will be unveiled collectively at that time. After [...]

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Introducing the 2010 MSU Football Recruiting Class

February 3, 2010

Alyssa Dennis contributed a ton to this post. Coach Dantonio and the Michigan State Spartans finalized the 2010 recruiting class today, pulling in a total of twenty-one athletes from six states.  In an evenly balanced class that had 10 offensive players and 10 defensive players (plus a special teams player in punter Mike Sadler), MSU [...]

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Recruiting Primer for the Day

February 3, 2010

Today is National Signing Day, where the country’s top football prospects will sign national letters of intent to attend schools throughout the country to play football on scholarship. The MSU Twitter account will be posting updates throughout the day, and there will be a press conference at 3PM EST where Coach Dantonio will review and [...]

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Two Days till Signing Day, Recruits Explain their Decisions

February 1, 2010

H/T The Only Colors, this was posted over at their site: Detroit News Blue Chip recruits explain their decisions A couple of things to note from the DetNews article.  First, Gholston’s comments. Backstory is this: Gholston committed to MSU back in June last year, then in the fall made a few comments that seemed to indicate [...]

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Speak Your Mind, Forum Style

January 31, 2010

When I started this site back in August, I was convinced I wasn’t going to add forums. Let’s face it, forums are usually ugly.  Really ugly.  I’d say 90% of the time I visited a website forum, I just couldn’t stand the layout and the interaction.  Generally, it was because the system that runs the forums [...]

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