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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 game. In [...] In this video excerpt from last night’s press conference, MSU coach Tom Izzo discusses Michigan’s fans and what the Spartans mean to the state. 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 gained [...] The Pistons today announced what had come to be expected by many, that guard Allen Iverson would remain out for the rest of the 2008-2009 season because of his sore back. Iverson, acquired from the Denver Nuggets for Chauncey Billups, Cheikh Samb and Antonio McDyess on Nov. 3, 2008, has rarely exceeded expectations in his time [...] 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 [...] The Spartans are getting ready for tonight’s Sweet 16 matchup against Kansas. Freep.com led the coverage with a story about advance-booked hotel rooms. Yahoo! Sports pre-game coverage might be more worth your time. Should be a great game tonight! Michiganders have a reason to be happy, at least until March auto sales numbers are released. Both the Spartans and Wolverines have been selected for the NCAA basketball tournament. For the Spartans, who had been lobbying for a number one seed, the announcement comes as a bit of a disappointment. For the Wolverines, admission to the [...] Last night’s Pistons fiasco was an appropriate, if disappointing, way to turn out the lights on this era of Detroit Pistons history. I went into the game thinking we’d pull it out, go to Boston and win Game 7, then lost to the Lakers in six. But I never expected such a mental breakdown, so [...] The Detroit News has an interesting article about how the Pistons, in head-to-head competition with the Red Wings, are winning the battle for TV ratings. On Monday, the News says: “the Pistons Game 4 had a 15.1 rating, while Game 2 of the Stanley Cup drew an 11.5 rating.” Interesting, but hardly statistically relevant. The first [...] The Wings have mowed over and outplayed the Penguins in every facet of the game. So far, the series has been all Wings and the hockey gods in Gary Bettman’s office must not be very happy with their dream matchup right now. Last night’s 3-0 win showed that the Wings are serious, that they do [...] |
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