Michigan State University NCAA News

He was pegged as the next premier Michigan State defensive end without ever having played a game for the green and white.

This is no way to combat the critics. The Big Ten had three games last week against teams of similar status - and lost all three.

The defending national champ and everyone's pick for the next national champ highlight a Michigan State 2008-09 men's basketball schedule that is loaded as usual.

Lions quarterback Drew Stanton has a message for Michigan State fans who blamed quarterback Brian Hoyer for the Spartans' 38-31 loss to California in their season opener on Saturday.

EAST LANSING - Time constraints limited Mark Dantonio's post-game comments after Michigan State fell 38-31 to California last Saturday and many media members were flying back to Michigan when Dantonio held a ...

W hy do networks subject us to old footage of their analysts playing in games? While you ponder that, it's first and .

Khary Campbell of the Washington Redskins was sitting at home the evening of April 26 when the phone rang.

Michigan State head football coach Mark Dantonio met with the media Sunday evening to discuss the team's performance vs.

Michigan and Michigan State had tough opening-day assignments and neither one could pull out a win.

Kevin Riley passed for 202 yards and two second-half touchdowns, and Shane Vereen broke an 81-yard scoring run with 4:21 left in California 's 38-31 victory over Michigan State on Saturday night.

Michigan's new era opened in a painfully familiar way for the 108,000-plus fans at the Big House: With an ugly-looking loss.

Some fans of Michigan and Michigan State will brand this as an exaggeration, or just another blue-sky assurance designed to make the state's Big Ten fans feel cuddly on the first big day of the college football ...

In the offseason, the Spartans worked on their speed. Already they've seen the benefits.

Six years after California coach Jeff Tedford made his first big splash with a victory over Michigan State, he's hoping the Golden Bears don't provide the same career opportunity to Mark Dantonio.

EAST LANSING - Michigan State will be trying to do this season what it failed to do in 1991, 1996, 1998, 2000, 2002 and 2004.

The Tigers' offensive line just got bigger. A lot bigger. Paris High School product Chase Dumphord transferred to Georgetown College on Monday.

The labels have stuck to them like a sweat-soaked T-shirt in August. They accept mediocrity.

A five-hour plane ride. An opponent that has pushed its way into the top 10 in recent years, at least until taking a tumble the second half of last season.

Mark Dantonio starts his second season as Michigan State's football coach with a tough road trip to California this weekend.

If Cal's season began this week, sophomore Chris Guarnero would be the starting left guard and redshirt freshman Mitchell Schwartz would be the first-team right tackle, coach Jeff Tedford said.