For the first time ever, Michigan State University’s iconic mascot Sparty is competing in the Capital One Mascot Challenge.

EAST LANSING — Michigan State University has announced there will be a “no-bag” policy in effect for football games at Spartan Stadium this fall.

Michigan State University has advanced the start date for construction on the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams to the summer of 2012, a year earlier than originally planned, and is using its own money to do so.

MASON – A Michigan State University osteopathic medicine student suspended after he was charged with killing 13 dogs expects to be reinstated, his attorney said Thursday.

EAST LANSING – The Michigan State University medical student facing charges surrounding the killings of 10 dogs – some or all of them at his Okemos apartment – also is charged with killing three more dogs in East Lansing, court records show.

EAST LANSING – Melissa Ritz stood in the bottom of a perfectly square hole carved into a grassy slope on West Circle Drive across from the Michigan State University Library.

Saint Nick When Nick Saban arrived as the new coach of the MSU Spartans, there was unbridled enthusiasm. He was an ex-assistant under Perles and very highly regarded. Unfortunately, like George Perles, he struggled during his first four years at the helm going 6–5-1, 6–6, and 7–5 and 6-6. This was improvement considering MSU had [...]

Daryl Rogers and Joe Kearney: Misplaced Leaders President Wharton felt MSU needed a new direction and turned to a west coast individual named Joe Kearney as Athletic Director. Kearney promptly hired another west coast guy as head coach named Daryl Rogers. The team tied for the league championship in 1978 but was prohibited from going [...]

The Duffy Daughterty Era Duffy’s first season did not go well winning only 3 games and prompting tension between Biggie and Duffy. It reached the apex when Biggie began openly criticizing Duffy’s assistants at a staff meeting. Duffy told him to shut up and kicked out of the meeting. Their relationship was said to be [...]