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Recent posts
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Childress takes his game to Europe
Former Atlanta Hawks forward Josh Childress is the latest passenger on the NBA European Express.
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A new meaning for outdoor sports
I’ve rediscovered the art of the lawn game. Usually, I only think of lawn games as a tailgating staple, grouped in the same category as beer pong and flip cup tournaments. But after a couple of weekends of hanging with my family and engaging in a few games of Wiffle Ball and cornhole (aka bags, aka Hillbilly Horseshoes), I have a new enthusiasm for them. Here’s why.
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Sports award show entertaining
And the nominees for best award show are: The Academy Awards, The Emmys, The ESPYs and The Grammys.
Baseball team hits rock bottom against Michigan
The MSU men’s basketball and baseball teams now have something in common: They each caught an already-phenomenal opponent at its best and paid the price.
The baseball team was throttled this weekend by Michigan, being outscored 52-14, with the worst of it coming in a 27-6 loss Sunday. If there was a mercy rule, it likely would have been in effect by the third inning.
The defeat was akin to the basketball team’s loss to Memphis in the Sweet 16 when the Tigers jumped out to a dominating first-half lead. Just as Memphis would have given the Celtics a good game that day, U-M might have outslugged the Tigers this weekend.
Head coach David Grewe has his guys doing a lot of the right things. They have some solid pitchers and a decent lineup to handle middle-of-the-road competition. But when it came to U-M, it was just an entirely different level.
If anything, Grewe can walk away from this weekend and appreciate that his team didn’t beat itself. The Spartans only committed one error (and it didn’t lead to one of the 27 runs on Sunday) and maybe had an opportunity to see what it takes to win a Big Ten title and compete at the national level. It’s been something Grewe has been trying to ingrain into his players’ minds for a while.
Sometimes it just takes hitting rock bottom.
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