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• Advancing Athletics

  Updated 06/17/2009 8:33pm

  By now, you’ve seen the Pure Michigan advertisements on TV. In the commercials, there usually are images of Michigan’s Great Lakes, lighthouses and fresh harvests coming in. It shows all the openness, the nature of the state, the beauty that shines through the mere landscape and topography. But all the nature, as beautifully mesmerizing as it is, cannot hold the attention of the most freewheeling minds.

• Roof only Spartan MLB draft pick, joins father in Detroit

  Updated 06/15/2009 7:21pm

  Eric Roof has never played baseball for his father, but he’ll get his first chance in the next couple months. Roof, who played catcher for the Spartans, was the only MSU player taken in the Major League Baseball First-Year Player Draft. He’ll be playing for the organization where his father, Gene, has spent more than two decades — the Detroit Tigers.

• Michigan made

  Updated 06/03/2009 9:04pm

  The Michigan-made man is dying as we know it. As the state’s auto companies file for bankruptcy and merge with foreign manufacturers, the Michigan-made man is disappearing from the nation’s architecture. The car dealers offering low prices and zero money down will become less diverse on TV and radio airwaves during the coming months.

• Web exclusive: Women’s rowing team finish 6th in national championship

  Updated 05/31/2009 8:01pm

  Although the No. 7-ranked MSU women’s rowing team didn’t win the national championship in the NCAA National Regatta on Sunday in Cherry Hill, N.J., tying the university’s top finish of sixth place with 54 points wasn’t a bad way to spend the weekend.

• Abdelkader scores again as Red Wings take 2-0 series lead

  Updated 05/31/2009 11:55pm

  It’s just a little bit of déjà vu for the Detroit Red Wings — in more ways than one. One year after facing off against the Pittsburgh Penguins in the Stanley Cup Final, the two are playing each other again this year.

• Despite slow startup, MSU ends season in high spirits

  Updated 05/25/2009 8:16pm

  The regular season didn’t end the way the MSU baseball team wanted it to, as the Spartans were eliminated from the Big Ten Conference Tournament on Thursday. But then again, not a lot of things happened as expected this year for the Spartans, who finished fifth in the conference with a 13-11 conference record and 23-31 overall record.