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For Blue Raiders on the gridiron, it's been a productive summer in the weight room and on the turf of Floyd Stadium, with the annual water slide celebration this past week to cap off the end of the long summer grind.Work hard, play hard 🤙#BLUEnited | #EATT pic.twitter.com/2f64oZ7v0e— Middle Tennessee Football (@MT_FB) July 28, 2023With the start of practices where the players can, you know, practice ...

You’ve heard, “Go Green!” and “Go White!” But what about … “Go Shadow!”Michigan State football introduced a black alternate uniform, nicknamed “Shadow,” via social media on Friday night as part of the Spartan Dawg Con festivities in East Lansing. The 100-second video released by the university showed a montage of classic Spartans uniforms, followed by closeups of a new all-black kit from Nike.The uniform ...

INDIANAPOLIS — At one moment Wednesday during Big Ten media days, Mel Tucker acknowledged the demands he faces in a microwave society that wants instant gratification.“We’re in a ‘win now’ culture,” the Michigan State football coach suggested.Then, seconds later, he delivered a subtle plea for patience, telling the reporters in his midst that “it takes time to build a program and get it the way we ...

Michigan State football at this time last year was coming off an 11-2 season, capped off with a comeback win against Pittsburgh in the Peach Bowl.The Spartans had their starting quarterback and two best receivers returning from an offense that was cooking by the end of the 2021 season. Momentum was high.The landscape has completely changed as MSU enters the 2023 season.Two-year starting quarterback ...

Michigan’s football program lost an important recruiting battle to Ohio State on Sunday night.Springfield (Ohio) 2024 four-star cornerback Aaron Scott announced his commitment to the Buckeyes in a live video on social media. The 6-foot 170-pound top-100 prospect chose OSU over other finalists Michigan and Oregon. At the Kay M Glaesner Community Center in Springfield, he set away OSU and Oregon hats ...

Jim Harbaugh has abundantly praised his starting quarterback over the last year, when J.J. McCarthy dethroned Cade McNamara for the starting job at Michigan.The head coach loves what McCarthy brings to the table, both with his talent behind center and his leadership style. You’ll often hear Harbaugh tout McCarthy as someone “willing to do anything for his teammates,” the kind of trait that works well ...

Michigan’s football program has had a rough couple of days on the recruiting trail.After losing a battle to Ohio State for 2024 four-star cornerback Aaron Scott on Sunday night, the Wolverines missed on Sugar Land (Texas) Fort Bend Christian Academy four-star offensive tackle Bennett Warren on Monday. The No. 143 overall prospect and top-10 tackle nationally, per the 247Sports Composite rankings, committed ...

There is still four months until the next installment of the Michigan-Ohio State football rivalry on the field, but for a fleeting moment Sunday night, Wolverines fans thought they scored another victory over the Buckeyes.Springfield four-star cornerback Aaron Scott, the second-ranked prospect in Ohio and No. 52 nationally, held a commitment ceremony at a local community center and was set to choose ...

Ryan Day’s revelation that talks are ongoing about moving up the annual Michigan-Ohio State game took some by surprise.And while nothing is finalized, the likelihood of a rematch between the two rivals in the Big Ten championship game grew exponentially when the league eliminates divisions in 2024.It’s forced the athletic directors of the two schools to discuss alternative situations, Day said, and ...

It was only supposed to be a minor surgery — at least as minor as knee surgery can be — for Zion Nelson, the type of procedure expected to knock him out of commission for maybe two or three months.At first, the Miami Hurricanes set Week 1 of the 2022 college football as the goal for his return, then they just wanted to get him back on the field at some point last year and then the hope was just to ...