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Appling sees playing time, but injuries haunt him
Spartans lose to U-M again after Wolverines rally in second half
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ANN ARBOR — It’s clear Keith Appling isn’t at full playing capacity. Still, the senior guard started and played 25 minutes, scoring six points and dishing out six assists in the No. 13 MSU men’s basketball team’s 79-70 loss to Michigan Sunday afternoon. “I was going with my guy,” Izzo said. “Of course his wrist is affecting his shot. He still drove, he still did some things. I’ve got to get guys ready for down the road. “You can only Band-Aid things so much. Keith is not 100 percent, he’s not 80 percent, but he’s doing better than See APPLING on page 2 u
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NN ARBOR — This one looked familiar. Nearly a month after MSU squandered a firsthalf lead to Michigan in East Lansing, Crisler Center played host to a rerun of the same episode. No. 20 Michigan was handled for most of the first half, but the Wolverines rode Nik Stauskus’ 21 second-half points en route to a 79-70 victory. “They just outplayed us, simple as that,” senior guard Keith Appling said. “They made more
shots, got more 50-50 balls, got more rebounds and just did everything they needed to win.” After the Jan. 25 loss to U-M, head coach Tom Izzo raved about how proud he was of his team’s effort, but Sunday afternoon didn’t hold the same story. “This game we looked tired, not very proud of our effort,” Izzo said. “I think I did a poor job of playing (Adreian) Payne too many minutes in a row, and he was just dead tired.” The senior forward ended the game with 12 points and 11 rebounds, but the Spartans had a difficult time feeding it to him in the post the whole game. “I thought Payne was getting beat up in there,” Izzo said. “I don’t think he really worked hard enough to
Senior center Adreian Payne goes up for a dunk over Michigan forward Glenn Robinson III on Sunday at Crisler Center in Ann Arbor, Mich.
“They just outplayed us, simple as that. They made more shots, got more 50-50 balls, got more rebounds and just did everything they needed to win.” Keith Appling, senior guard
get it down there, because he just looked dead to me.” Another player that had a hard time filling the hoop was sophomore guard Gary Harris. While he led the Spartans with 21 points, it came
from 7-of-17 shooting from the floor, including 4-of-13 shooting from 3-point range. It certainly was an odd result considering the stats, Izzo said, as MSU shot 54.2 percent from the field and out-rebound-
ed the Wolverines 31-24. Nonetheless, shooting percentage and rebounds don’t count on the scoreboard. The game was a huge blow to the conference championship dreams of the No. 13 Spartans’, who now have four losses in the Big Ten to U-M’s three. Because the Wolverines have rolled through MSU twice, U-M will hold the tie breaker if both teams finSee B-BALL on page 2 u
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Impact 89FM celebrates 25 years of student radio
Suspects arrested for student death
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165-pounder Patrick Ruggico, right, punches Walt Underwood on Saturday at The Club at Chandler Crossings. The match was part of a charity event that pitted fighters against each other to support Original Heroes, a Lansing-based organization fighting child hunger. — Betsy Agosta, SN See the story on page 5
Thursday night usually signifies the crowding of students in a local bar to unwind after a long week of classes, but last Thursday, one Lansing bar was crowded for a different reason — to celebrate WDBM 88.9-FM’s birthday. 25 years ago, Impact existed as an AM radio station with a signal that could only be picked up by certain residence halls. Since then, the radio station has built a following for itself, had a tremendous group of alumni and students come through its doors and is continually trying to build its brand to be known as the top student radio station in the country. Until early last week, damage to the station’s transmission line severe-
ly inhibited the reach of its broadcast. They’ve since fixed the issue. To maintain Impact’s success throughout the next 25 years, station general manager Ed Glazer said they are working to improve three main areas. T he first, he said, is increasing Impact’s streaming capacity by creating mobile apps that would allow their audience to tune into program streams using their phones, iPads and other tablet devices. A s o f n o w, I m p a c t streams its main program and its other station, The Fix. In the future, however, Impact hopes to offer streams of different genres of music, such as an all-hip hop station and a sports station. Another step that Impact officials hope to take in the
Three suspects have been arrested in connection with the death of MSU student Dustyn Frolka. The marketing sophomore and aspiring musician was found on Feb. 15 near the East Lansing exit of the I-69 in respiratory distress. He was taken to Sparrow Hospital in Lansing, where he later died. The suspects reportedly connected to Frolka’s death were found after Bath Township police obtained a search warrant for an apartment complex in Saline, Mich., according to a report from the Lansing State Journal. Two adults and one juvenile were arrested and are in the Clinton County Jail with no possibility for bail with an open murder charge. The three are scheduled to be arraigned on today in the 65th District Court in St. Johns, Mich.
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