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Okay, I admit it. My headline is more than a little misleading. But Tom Izzo went ahead and said it, the “R” word, at his weekly news conference. “We are not a team that should be totally rebuilding,” Izzo said. That’s right, Tom. I’d bet, there are a lot of other people across the state [...]
Michigan State Head Coach Tom Izzo has lead the Spartans to the NCAA Final Four for the sixth time in 12 years. Izzo has been reminding the team of the importance of defense to championships and the Spartans did a remarkable job of shutting down the athletic and talented Tennessee Volunteers, winning 70-69. While I’m [...]
The MSU Spartans hung around for a two point victory against the University of Maryland Terrapins last night. At one point, they were up on Maryland by 16 points. But once point guard Kalin Lucas went down (and out of the game with an obviously serious injury), the Spartans lead evaporated. In fact, the Spartans [...]
The Michigan State Spartans survived to play another day in the 2010 NCAA tournament. The Spartans played a tremendously uneven game. At times they were brilliant and at other times they were sloppy. This is exactly how this team has played all year. A highlight for the Spartans was Kalin Lucas’ career-high 25 points. The [...]
It was a game that wasn’t close from the start. The Michigan State Spartans fell to the North Carolina Tar Heels 89-72 on Monday night in the NCAA Men’s Basketball Championship game. This is North Carolina’s fifth men’s basketball championship. The Tar Heels ran up an amazing 55 points in the first half of the [...]
Tom Izzo’s MSU Spartans rolled through the University of Connecticut Huskies tonight, winning a hard-fought game 82-73. Up until the fifth minute of the second half, both teams were evenly matched, exchanging the lead several times. With 16 minutes left in the second half, the game was tied. At that point, MSU broke away and [...]
The sputtering economy, and the sheer size of Detroit’s Ford Field (71,000 seats), have taken their toll on one of the country’s last great sources of entrepreneurial greed, our nation’s benevolent sports ticket brokers. USA Today reports that ticket sales for this year’s NCAA Final Four are down 30 to 40 percent from last year’s [...]
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