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Northwestern Has Fired Bill Carmody After 13 Years Of Decent-By-Northwestern-Standards Basketball
In 13 seasons as the head coach at Northwestern University, an alleged Big Ten basketball program, Bill Carmody’s signature moment might’ve been getting hired in the first place. And that, presumably, is why the school fired him today. Cracker-box facilities, lack of tradition, and academic pressure...
Did Derrick Nix Smack Cody Zeller In The Nuts, Or Did Zeller Make Him Do It?
Senior Derrick Nix is Michigan State's team captain, but he's done some pretty uncaptain-like things. Like an offseason arrest for impaired driving and marijuana possession (the latter charge was dropped.) Like offering up bulletin board material when he called Victor Oladipo overrated. And then, t...
Have You Had Your Victor Oladipo Moment Yet?
Have you experienced your Victor Oladipo Conversion Moment yet? It's when you watch the play that makes you realize that no one in college basketball is more exciting than the junior Indiana guard from Maryland. Every year, there's one player in college hoops who inspires such a conversion—think ...
Michigan State Definitely Eye-Gouged An Ohio State Player During Yesterday's Game
As if fans taunting an injured Braxton Miller weren't enough, Michigan State players engaged in some dirty behavior at the end of at least one play today, as Spartans offensive lineman Jack Allen took advantage of his fingers being near Buckeyes defensive lineman Johnathan Hankins's face and gave ...
Michigan State Coaches Say Ohio State Gave Them Selectively Edited Game Tape
After Ohio State beat Michigan State today 17-16, the Spartans coaches' bellies ached loudly enough that reporters heard them and wrote that Michigan State's coaches were upset with Ohio State's coaches. Apparently the game film that Ohio State provided in advance of their game was not up to Big Ten...
Michigan State Fans Taunted Ohio State QB Braxton Miller With "He's A Pussy" After Miller Injured By Late Hit
Today's ESPN/ABC spotlight game (and the site of this morning's College GameDay) is a Big Ten matchup between visiting Ohio State and host Michigan State, and the game turned ugly early. When Buckeyes quarterback Braxton Miller went down hard on a late hit out of bounds—his head crashing into a st...
College ShameDay: Who Embarrassed Themselves On Saturday (Besides Georgia Tech)?
Our weekly college football shame index. ...
Brady Hoke Ranks Michigan's Best Rivalries
Every morning, the fine folks at Sports Radio Interviews sift through the a.m. drive-time chatter to bring you the best interviews with coaches, players, and personalities across the sports landscape. Today: Sorry MSU, you're second-class....
The Official Boise State Twitter Feed Was Honest For About 30 Seconds After The Broncos Lost Their Season Opener
Here's the official account for Boise State Athletics (Go Broncs!) reacting to Friday night's loss to the Michigan State Spartans. They're right, of course—Boise State didn't score after halftime, and ended the game with only 206 yards of total offense—but for some reason they still felt compelled t...
Michigan State's Draymond Green Cleans The Glass, Then Floor
While Michigan State fans may question Draymond Green's help defense, his help cleaning the floor is without question as Green took to his janitorial duties late in the Spartans' 65-61 win over St. Louis today in Columbus. [CBS]...
Florida State, Vanderbilt, And Michigan State Are Going Dancing, But They Would Have Been Anyway
This brings to a close our series highlighting teams celebrating their conference championships, and like most televised entertainment, it comes to a somewhat anticlimactic end. Sure, FSU won the ACC for the first time ever, and Vanderbilt won the SEC tournament for the first time since 1951 (thou...
Michigan State Head Coach Mark Dantonio Acts Like Michigan's Little Brother
During a panel discussion on recruiting before the Michigan High School Football Coaches Association, Mark Dantonio stoked the flames of the Michigan-Michigan State rivalry. While Michigan State sent its head coach to the event, Brady Hoke was busy being honored as a finalist for the Bear Bryant Aw...
That Is One Huge-Ass Spartan Tattoo, MSU Redshirt Freshman Special Teamer
Nick Hill has played all of 15 games for Michigan State, mostly as a kick returner. He's feeling good about the team and confident in his job security, because now there's no way he can ever transfer. [It's Always Sunny in Detroit]...
Injured MSU Cheerleader's Dad: "Glad To See Your Booty Isn't Gettin' Big"
We were happy to report last night that Michigan State cheerleader Taylor Young was doing fine after a scary accident that left her sprawled out and unconscious at center court of East Lansing's Breslin Center during the Spartans' 65-49 win over Florida State....
That Craigslist Ad Offering People $75 To Attend The Big Ten Championship Game Was A Hoax
Spencer Hall, who had gotten hold of a response from the hoaxster and initially thought it could be legit, ended up getting to the bottom of it: "The funniest thing was all the damn Spartan and Badger fans who crawled out of the woodwork. Can't be bothered to drive 3 / 6 hours for their team and bu...
Cheerleading Accident Forces Delay In Florida State-Michigan State Basketball Game, Emotional Display From Mike Tirico
Michigan State cheerleader Taylor Young is "OK," per Spartans AD Mark Hollis, after taking a spill in the first half of MSU's game against Florida State and landing flat on her face....
OK, This Michigan State-UNC Game On An Aircraft Carrier Will Be Pretty Awesome
Game's on ESPN right now, live from San Diego. Go watch it....
Watch A 101,300-Ton Bin Laden-Dumping War Machine Become A Basketball Court
Love time-lapse videos. Love them. Nothing better for the arrested attention span than to compress a week's worth of construction on the USS Carl Vinson in San Diego into a handy YouTube video. And on the eighth day, they balled. [via SBNation]...
UNC And Michigan State Will Wear Ugly Camo Uniforms In Game On Aircraft Carrier
Now is as good of a time as any to remind the world that in just a week and a half, two premier college basketball programs will be playing an actual game that will actually count on a giant aircraft carrier on the water in San Diego. And they'll be doing so, it turns out, in camouflage jerseys that...
Erin Andrews Has Something On Her Mind: Your College Football Early Games Open Thread
The marquee game, at least according to the tiny numbers next to their names, is Michigan State at Nebraska. Stop on by and chat about it....