College basketball: Michigan 77, Michigan Tech 55. Michigan opens the season with an easy win over Tech in the opening round of the lengthily named 2008 2K Sports Classic benefiting Coaches vs. Cancer. Manny Harris scored a career-high 30 points, DeShawn Sims notched his second-ever double-double with ten points and 12 boards, and this one [...]

College basketball: Michigan State won its second exhibition 112-69 over Lake Superior State. Raymar Morgan had 23 points and 11 rebounds to lead the Spartans, and Durrell Summers followed his monster game againt Northern Michigan with another strong performance — 18 points in 19 minutes. Box score. Also, Michigan opens the regular season tonight, hosting [...]

The Lions introduced two new quarterbacks yesterday, one a former Pro Bowler signed out of retirement and the other a high draft pick who doubles as a homegrown college star. First, the good news: they were both fine. You had Daunte Culpepper starting the game even though he had all of three days of practice [...]

Three games to talk about. Let’s start with football. College football: Michigan State 21, Purdue 7. It’s hard to argue with Drew Sharp’s contention that MSU is far from an elite team. (Though it’s also hard to see why he seems to take such glee in saying it, or why he keeps repeating himself.) Even [...]

A lot of sports blogs are stats-heavy. It makes sense: bloggers aren’t generally close enough to teams and players to report on the mood in the locker room, but many of us can crunch numbers like a CPA. (Many of us might actually be CPAs.) But while that approach can be a good way to [...]

Some observations after Michigan State’s 118-57 basketball exhibition victory against Northern Michigan: 1. A year ago, State lost an exhibition game to Grand Valley, 85-82. Tonight the Spartans came out with energy and aggressiveness on both ends of the floor. On offense, they pushed the ball, and especially early on, they took the ball to [...]