EAST LANSING – A blowout loss at home to cement a losing record. And a nearly empty Spartan Stadium when the final seconds ticked off the clock. That wasn’t how coach Jonathan Smith expected to wrap ...

That’s the score of the team's state semifinal loss to Lincoln Southwest last year — a loss that kept the Spartans from advancing to the state title game. This season, they’ve walked by a poster every ...

Following a 3-0 start to the season, the goals changed each week based on reality. First loss, also the first Big Ten loss. First defeat at home against a visiting interim head coach, one more to ...

Riley Van Scoy always has his sights set on the next milestone. A new top weightlifting mark? Add more weight. Finishing a run in a new best time? Go farther and faster. Earn 101 pins in a high school ...

Michigan State coach Mark Dantonio talks to an assistant during the first quarter of the Michigan State spring football game at Spartan Stadium in East Lansing Saturday, April 26, 2014. (Mike ...