Travis Trice battles serious illness in offseason

With Midnight Madness a thing in the past, the Michigan State basketball season is less than a month away. In as little as three weeks, the Spartan basketball team will be tipping their season off against Connecticut on an Air Force base overseas in Germany.One player who could play a part in the Spartans’ success this season is Michigan State sophomore Travis Trice.Last year, the 6’0” guard from Huber Heights, Ohio, displayed a promising shooting touch as a freshman, appearing in 32 games averaging 4.5 points in 17 minutes a contest.Today, as Trice laces up his basketball shoes and walks out onto the floor to practice with his teammates, it’s hard to imagine that just a couple months ago, it was hard for him to do even that.Early this past summer, Trice woke one morning with a terrible headache. He didn’t know what it was or where it came from but whatever it was, it wouldn’t go away. Trice and members of the training staff tried countless headache medications but nothing would wor...