College basketball: Michigan 55, UCLA 52. I’m about to post Part III of my epic Mark Dantonio trilogy, which was inspired by MSU football’s “program win” over Wisconsin. Well, John Beilein’s U-M basketball team had a pretty significant program win of its own last night, toppling #4 UCLA 55-52 at Madison Square Garden in the [...]

I’m trying to reconfigure the site to make it snazzier looking, which involves pretending that I understand PHP and CSS code. Which I do not. So please forgive both the dearth of posts and also any technological or aesthetic crimes I may commit in the next 12-24 hours.
In sports news, here’s the latest on Antonio [...]

Part I | Part III
This is the second post comparing Mark Dantonio’s Michigan State teams with those of his predecessor, John L. Smith. The first post looked at yardage and found that under both coaches, the Spartans moved the ball well, but Dantonio has been much more effective at creating wins out of big advantages [...]

If you were at Michigan Stadium on Saturday, you know you saw an ugly game against Northwestern. You saw driving rain, muffed punts, blocked kicks, more rain, wide-open Wildcat receiver Eric Peterman racing through the Michigan secondary to catch the game-winning 53-yard touchdown pass, and Nick Sheridan tossing an interception in the endzone in the [...]

Part II | Part III
Regardless of what happens to Michigan State against Penn State next weekend or in its bowl game, the 2008 season is one of the Spartans’ most successful in recent memory. Not only is State winning games, but the team is slowly shedding its reputation for inconsistent play and the tendency to [...]

I’ll have an MSU football post tomorrow to tide us over during the bye week. But today, briefly, some links:
College basketball signing day: MSU gets two ESPN Top 100 players, Derrick Nix and Garrick Sherman, both centers ranked among the top 10 centers by Rivals. State went big to replace outgoing frontcourt seniors Goran Suton, [...]