LSJ Blogs: Hey, Joe

A mohawk might look nice

So how does MSU feel about Purdue's loss at Michigan to give the Spartans more room at the top?

DVD winners

Congratulations to VA Sparty, the only one of 55 entrants who got all five questions right in the MSU DVD Challenge.

MSU can clinch a share Sunday

Michigan 87, Purdue 78. Catch the Wolverines at home, on a hot shooting night, with Manny Harris (27) points) and DeShawn Sims (29) both on, and you're in trouble. Now the Spartans can guarantee at least a piece of their first title since 2001 by winning Sunday at Illinois or Tuesday at Indiana.

Win an MSU hoops DVD

OK, we’re going talk radio today with a giveaway. For those of you who have the Big Ten Network (most of you, I would think), you may have seen the recently released “The Greatest Stories of Michigan State Basketball.”

Does anyone want this thing?

That is, Big Ten player of the year. Talor Battle and Evan Turner traded subpar games in a head-to-head meeting Tuesday. Kalin Lucas responded with a season-low four points against Iowa, the team he scorched for 24 a month ago.

On boards and battered Hawks

Two key members of Iowa's backcourt, Jeff Peterson and Jermain Davis, will miss tonight's game according to this story from the Iowa City Press-Citizen. Cyrus Tate will play some, though. In light of that, I wonder how the Hawkeyes will hold up for 40 minutes against MSU.

Tommy H. off the pine

Hopefully, this clears up any remaining misconceptions about why Tom Herzog started in place of Goran Suton on Sunday.

G's up, Bo's down

“He’s done it before and I haven’t, and I think I want it as bad as he does.”

Game day primer

Using newspaper lingo, here are the "advance," the  "sidebar" (on Jud Heathcote), and the tipoff.
Also, check out this blog entry from columnist Mike Lucas of The Capital Times on the MSU-Wisconsin rivalry.

Magic and Jud

The 1979 team actually took a bus together from the Lansing Sheraton to campus on Saturday. They toured the new football facility, watched the current Spartans practice and spent some time with the media. And Earvin "Magic" Johnson owned the room as usual.