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Spartans Tom Izzo Stops Play To Insert His Seniors In The Game (Video)
This is what sports are all about.
With 1:00 left in the game against Iowa, Michigan State basketball coach Tom Izzo forced his players to throw the ball out of bounds. Without hesitation, Spartans’ guard Denzel Valentine immediately followed the instruction.
Tom Izzo wanted to stop the game so that one of his seniors in Dan Chapman could get a taste of playing before his final...
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Michigan State offers Dowdy
Westerville (Ohio) South offensive tackle nets offer on visit last Saturday and says it was a shock. He recaps the visit and getting an offer from the Spartans.
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Tom Izzo calls for turnover to honor Michigan State’s seniors
With a little over a minute left during Michigan State’s senior night on Thursday against Iowa, Tom Izzo wanted to get his seniors (Keith Appling, Adrein Payne and Dan Chapman) one final ovation, so he instructed his team to throw the ball out of bounds.
Point guard, Keith Appling, had no interest in getting the turnover as one of his stats, so he passed to Denzel Valentine to...
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Tom Izzo Intentionally Makes Team Turnover Ball To Honor Seniors
Michigan State University’s men’s basketball coach Tom Izzo honored his seniors on Thursday night in a very nontraditional way. Check out the coach make one of his players toss the ball out of bounds to get seniors Adreian Payne, Keith Appling and Dan Chapman a final ovation.
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Tom Izzo Calls Turnover To Honor Seniors (Video)
In this day and age of the one-and-done, having a college player that makes it to his senior year is something that coaches and fans appreciate. So, on Senior Night it’s no surprise that Tom Izzo instructed one of his Spartans to throw the ball out of bounds so he could honor his guys.
I don’t know anyone that would complain about that turnover.
H/T: FTW
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Adreain Payne Joined by Lacey Holsworth for Special Senior Night Tribute
If you’re not familiar with the story of Adreain Payne and Lacey Holsworth, an eight-year-old battling cancer, it is one worth reading up on. Holsworth and Payne bonded after the Michigan State basketball team paid Holsworth a visit while was in the hospital, and the two have become extremely close since. Their friendship is such a remarkable one that Holsworth more or less has...
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Very special guest to accompany Spartans' Payne on Senior Night
A little more than two years ago, Michigan State basketball standout Adreian Payne met a beautiful young cancer patient fighting for her life when the team made a community-service hospital visit.
On Thursday night, 8-year-old Lacey Holsworth will accompany Payne during a Senior Night ceremony for the Spartans' final home game of the season, against Iowa. Payne, projected as...
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Lacey Holsworth will join Adreian Payne on the court for Senior Night
On Thursday night, Adreian Payne will join his fellow Michigan State basketball teammates for Senior Night. Joining Payne on the floor will be Lacey Holsworth, an eight-year old fighting for her life trying to fend off cancer. As Michigan State beat writer Joe Rexrode wrote Wednesday, “A couple years ago, there were questions about whether Lacey Holsworth would walk again...
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Report: Tom Izzo considering playing Keith Appling less
After a season full of injuries and illnesses, Michigan State finally has everyone on their roster available to play.
That didn’t stop the Spartans from losing to Illinois on Saturday, their third loss in the last four games and sixth loss in the last 10 games.
The problem now is Keith Appling, who has played like a shell of himself since sitting out three games to try to get...
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Mark Dantonio has done what Nick Saban couldn’t
MSU football: Mark Dantonio has done what Nick Saban couldn’tIn my Detroit Free Press column this week, I take a look at how Michigan State is handling its football success this time around as compared to 15 years ago. As always, my column starts here and ends at the Freep website. On the heels of the news that Michigan State Football Head Coach Mark Dantonio and his assistants...
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Dan Dakich Rips Apart Ted Valentine During Illinois-Michigan State Broadcast
Today’s Cincinnati-UConn game featured an intense brush-up between Bearcats coach Mick Cronin and official Ted Valentine, and many feel that Valentine was over the line for aggressively getting in the angry Cronin’s face. No one is more vocal on the issue than ESPN’s Dan Dakich, who had some very pointed comments about the altercation during the broadcast of this afternoon’s...
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Izzo believes Michigan State could make 'some serious noise' in the next three weeks
Tom Izzo got one foot out the door before pausing.
"We will get back, guys," the Michigan State coach boomed reassuringly as he started the trek back to his office.
Another polar vortex was moving towards Michigan, but something about Izzo's demeanor Thursday suggested a thawed environment.
"Well, for those of you that are privileged enough to show up at practice...
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Badgers hockey blanks Michigan State in Saturday finale
MADISON, Wis. -- The power play continued to serve the Wisconsin men's hockey squad well on Saturday night, leading to a 2-0 victory over Michigan State, in front of an announced crowd of 15,359.
Joseph LaBate got eighth-ranked Wisconsin (19-9-2 overall, 10-5-1-0 Big Ten) rolling, tallying his power-play goal at 7:17 of the first period. Then, after Michael Mersch added a power...
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First place at stake for Michigan, Michigan State
Michigan and Michigan State have been out in front in the Big Ten race all season.
That makes Sunday's showdown in Ann Arbor between the 13th-ranked Spartans and the 20th-ranked Wolverines that much more compelling.
Michigan (18-7, 10-3) comes in a half-game behind Michigan State (22-5, 11-3), meaning Sunday's winner will have control of its own destiny in the race for...
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Badgers hockey overwhelms Michigan State, 5-2
MADISON, Wis. -- The eighth-ranked Wisconsin men's hockey squad made relatively quick work of visiting Michigan State on Friday night, winning by a 5-2 margin.
After Michigan State seized a 1-0 lead by 6 minutes, 52 seconds of the opening period, the host Badgers rattled off four unanswered goals to wrestle away all momentum. Standout Michael Mersch tallied two goals during the...
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