Please join us to celebrate the life and legacy of Mike Sadler on July 21, 2024 from 12-3 p.m. Atwater Brewery (Grand Rapids), local producers of Hey Diddle Diddle, will again host this year's 8th Annual Mike Sadler Legacy Celebration. Click here for tickets!
Each paid ticket includes admission, two free drinks (soda, Hey Diddle Diddle or a 8th year surprise brew), a world-famous Pronto Pup, a Sadler wristband and a souvenir pint glass. Original and new Sadler #3 gear will also be available for purchase. You can meet special Spartan guests, have your picture taken with Sparty, MSU Cheerleaders & Dancers, and Zeke the Wonder Dog! Rock with the Spartan Marching Band, and bid on your favorite silent auction items while you enjoy the festive atmosphere in celebration of Mike Sadler's life and legacy.

This is a fundraiser to support our work with youth in the Grand Rapids and Lansing communities. We're teaching kids how to start building their own meaningful legacies - like Mike did - each day. Our impact to date is more than 6000 students, and our goal is to increase that number by 1000 in the next year. Your ticket purchase will help us reach that goal!

If you can't be in Grand Rapids for this event but would like to contribute to our goal, please consider an online donation at https://www.michaelsadlerfoundation.org/donate

We hope to see you on July 21!! Thank you for remembering Mike Sadler's legacy and for supporting our work in honor of it.

According to Big 12 Commissioner Brett Yormark, the 10 schools departing the Pac-12, which would mean all of USC, UCLA, Oregon, and Washington leaving for the Big Ten, are obligated to continue to play in Pac-12 affiliated bowl games through the end of the 2025 football season instead of the bowl games with tie-ins to the new conferences.

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2025 three-star SDE Jayden-Jamal Hanne received a Michigan State offer on July 4.

"It was very special to me because I was able to share the emotions with my family."

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I always enjoy this montage that MSU Athletics puts out every summer.

Great job by the MSU creative team on this.

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Georgia demonstrating on how they believe the CFP will continue to be won.... (average size of their incoming OL class is 6'7 340)

Michigan State already has two linebackers committed in its 2025 recruiting class with in-state prospects Charles White and Dimari Malone, but has its sights set on adding Ohio four-star linebacker Grant Beerman as well.

Beerman was in East Lansing this past weekend to take an official visit to Michigan State.

The Lakota West High School star currently ranks as the No. 18 player in the state of Ohio and the No. 30 outside linebacker in the 2025 cycle. He is a top priority for head coach Jonathan Smith, defensive coordinator/linebackers coach Joe Rossi and the rest of the MSU staff.

Following his official visit to Michigan State, Beerman discussed the trip with Spartans Illustrated and provided an update on what is next in his recruiting process.

"MSU has a strong football legacy and a great chance to develop back into a program that can win a Big Ten championship and compete in the playoffs," Beerman said. "They are obviously going through a ton of change right now, and winning won’t be easy right out of the gate, but I can see what Coach Smith is building and can tell from the culture of the players he has on the team and is bringing in that it won’t be long before Michigan State is back to a powerhouse Big Ten program."

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An in-depth look at Michigan State's wide receivers for the 2024 season.

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With no more Beerman on the board and it looking like Zamorano is gonna be a husky, are we frozen out for the summer? If so I’d be disappointed cause while 3 stars are the foundation of teams you still need naturally talented dudes in the 4-5 star range for a class

The Bahamas are looking to qualify for the Olympic men's basketball tournament for the first time ever.

Well, Tum Tum Nairn is taking a break from being the associate head coach for Bowling Green and he will be representing his home nation in the Olympic Qualifying Tournament in Valencia, Spain.

Spain are heavy favorites to win the tournament and qualify for the Olympics, but the Bahamas don't have a bad roster.

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The tournament starts tomorrow (July 2) and will end on July 7. One team will qualify for the Paris Olympics.

List of teams competing in Valencia:
- Angola
- Bahamas
- Finland
- Lebanon
- Poland
- Spain

An in-depth look at EACH AND EVERY opponent on Michigan State's 2024 schedule.

PLUS, my ranking of Michigan State's games from most difficult to least difficult.

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An in-depth look at the running back position for Michigan State.

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Hello, all! Just wanted to let you know I am on vacation starting today through July 14. I’ll still monitor the board here every once in a while, but I’ll likely be less active and slower to respond to questions. The rest of the team will take care of things while I am away.

An in-depth look at Michigan State's new-look quarterbacks room in 2024, featuring Aidan Chiles, Tommy Schuster, Alessio Milivojevic and Ryland Jessee.

This is the first entry in Spartan Illustrated's 2024 positional preview series.

Class of 2026 four-star defensive end Bott Mulitalo II wasn't expecting a scholarship offer from Michigan State, but was glad it came.

"I believe it’s a great program with a strong football tradition," Mulitalo said about Michigan State. "The offer is big for me, personally."

Much more on Mulitalo here, via @Dylan Callaghan-Croley:

The new Michigan State coaching staff led by head coach Jonathan Smith landed two Hawaiian players in the 2024 recruiting class – four-star offensive lineman Rustin Young and three-star defensive end
Kekai Burnett.

The Spartans don’t seem shy about attempting to make the Hawaii to East Lansing pipeline continue into the 2025 recruiting class.

Honolulu native Houston Kaahaaina-Torres took an official visit this past weekend to Michigan State and the offensive center is proud of his Hawaiian roots.

Following the trip, Kaahaaina-Torres recapped the experience with Spartans Illustrated and spoke about the importance of representing his home state.

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May God bless you and your family today. Enjoy yourselves, be safe and please remember the importance of the day. God bless America! 🇺🇸

Does anyone know if Peacock is going to be involved in football games this year.?
If not, I really am not impressed with their lineup of programs.

Michigan State kicks off its 2024 season — and a new era for the program under head coach Jonathan Smith — versus Florida Atlantic in just under two months.

With a ton of turnover from last year's roster, let's predict some potential breakout players (non-quarterbacks) on offense for the upcoming season.

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Advertising a product via an NIL deal where you don't disclose you have a financial relationship with the product being advertised could leave you liable according to a ruling issued last week.

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A look across the conference here:

"I was born in Michigan and I have lots of family there. It would mean a lot to receive an offer from my home state Spartans."

2026 WR Kenyon Alston made his debut visit to MSU in mid-June.

He details the visit, discusses what an offer from the Spartans would mean to him, and more:

A source close to 2025 Indiana four-star power forward Trent Sisley tells Spartans Illustrated that he has tentatively set an official visit date of Oct. 12 with the Michigan State men's basketball program. We are told this date is "penciled in" for now, but not yet 100 percent locked in just yet.

Sisley has previously taken multiple unofficial visits to East Lansing. He also is looking to take official visits to Purdue, Indiana and Notre Dame this fall, and he already took an OV to Iowa last September.

Sisley has been a longtime target for MSU and ranks as the No. 67 overall prospect and the No. 12 power forward in the 2025 cycle.

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