MAGIC MOMENTFOR MSU AND FLORIDA, IT’S TIME TO DANCETHE GAME OF A LIFETIME FOR LIFELONG HOOPS PALS
INDIANAPOLIS — It began with a hug. They were just kids, maybe 10 years old, they had really just met. But they hugged because the game was over and they were all sweaty and, well, that’s what great rivals do when the game ends, right? Hug each...
FOR THE LOVE OF HIS MOTHER AND HIS SISTER
She was barely 17 years old, and she was pregnant. This was not what she had in mind. What about high school? What about college? What about her track and field career? A baby?”This can’t be,” she told her mother.”It is,” her mother said,...
IN SEARCH OF SOMETHING COMPLETELY DIFFERENT
Let’s try the barber. Surely the barber is safe. Let us go into the small barbershop in Flint and ask the question.”Do you know Mateen Cleaves?” we ask. “We’re doing a story on Mateen Cleaves and we were wondering-“”Sorry, I...
Chappell No Longer An Outsider With Msu
THE SPARTANS left for the Final Four on Wednesday night, most of them thinking glory and championships. One of them was thinking about the bus ride. And the plane ride. And the locker room.
And it makes him nearly as happy as hitting a winning jumper.
“I may run home and get my camcorder, just to film all the little stuff,” he says.
Even Bad Movies Can Win My Oscars
You can’t buy a ticket to the Academy Awards. You must be invited. So I have been waiting. I check the mailbox every day. Nothing. And since the awards are tonight, I’m assuming once again, through no fault of my own, that I am not on the list.
But this year, I am doing something about it. I am holding my own Oscars.
That’s right. I have decided that, with the exception of Jennifer Lopez’s dress, whatda they got that I ain’t got?
FINAL SHOT AT THE FINAL FOURTHIS IS WHY CLEAVES RETURNED FOR SENIOR YEAR
The hallways were crowded, the arena was sweltering, there was yelling and pointing and noise everywhere. It took Michigan State coach Tom Izzo an extra minute or two to get to the locker room at halftime of Thursday night’s Sweet 16 showdown against Syracuse....
Green Grit Spartans Foil Syracuse; Iowa St. Next When Msu Feared Worst, It Fought The Hardest
Time after time, their best hope went into the belly of the beast. Time after time, he came away bloody. Here was Mateen Cleaves, the heart of the Spartans, driving into the Syracuse defense, twisting, leaping, rolling up a shot and — swat! Rejected. Another drive, a fast break this time, surely now he’s going to scor– swat! Blocked again, into the hands of a Syracuse player, into the hands of another Syracuse player, into the hands of another Syracuse player who jammed it home for a big lead.
A FEW DOS AND DON’TS ON TALKING WITH MSU
Whenever the nation’s media come to Detroit — and let’s face it, that’s only if a police car is on fire, if a police car might be on fire, or if there is a rumor that someone might, if enough media members showed up, actually set a police car...
Granger’S Spartan Lifestyle A Throwback
OH, SURE, that might have been fun. Different girlfriend every week? Being a
“player” on the party scene?
Might have been fun. Just wasn’t him. Not A. J. Granger. When he arrived as a freshman at Michigan State, he already had a high school sweetheart. And after he graduates in a couple of months, he’s going to marry her. Same girl.
“The other guys on the team can’t believe it,” he admits. “They keep saying to me, now you got four months left as a single man, now you got three months left . . .”
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