Here’s a cool idea. Go State! From Eastwood Towne Center’s Facebook page.
When the MSU football team wins, you receive a % discount on your total purchase at Maggie Moo’s on gameday!
The discount is equal to how many points MSU scored.
Ex: If MSU wins 27 – 7 You will get a 27% discount!
If there are any night games, discount will be honored on that Sunday.
Go Green! Go White! Go State!
Got this press release from the Haven House in East Lansing…
East Lansing Homeless Shelter Seeks Recipes from Spartan Tailgaters
We invite MSU football fans to highlight your tailgate party and support the homeless by showcasing your football traditions. Haven House is compiling a tailgate cookbook, “Tailgating on the Banks of the Red Cedar” as a fundraiser to help support homeless families. All proceeds will benefit Haven House.
Haven House provides emergency housing and support services for one-parent and two-parent families with children. The shelter helps families who are homeless prepare for permanent housing by developing and promoting self-sufficiency, stability, and financial responsibility.
Haven House volunteers will be attending Michigan State University home football games this season to interview tailgaters. If you would like to share your recipes, stories, and photographs to include in the cookbook please contact Tiffany Chenault at (517) 337-2731
To be considered, you will need to have the information available for our volunteers on game days, or submit your recipe and story by email at tchenault@havenhouseel.org, or by fax to 517-337-2910.
Old College Field on the campus of Michigan State University
My long stretch of baseball/softball continued at Michigan State University’s Old College Field. This was a new facility for me. I’ve been to soccer at DeMartin Field next door and I’m really looking forward to taking in a game at the newly remodeled McLane Baseball Stadium, but I’ve never seen a softball game at MSU.
The day started bright and early Saturday morning at the softball diamond which is between behind Jenison Field House and the Red Cedar River. Parking is located at Jenison and you have quite a hike to get back to the softball diamond. The field is situated between the soccer field and baseball diamond.
Old College Field gets it’s name from the days when MSU football actually played on the area. It retained the name Old College Field even though most of the football stadium was actually where the baseball diamond is now. In 2008, the whole area underwent a face lift and the field was moved and home plate now faces the Red Cedar River. Read the rest of this entry »
From a press release from the Governor’s office. It doesn’t say what food is on the line, but I would put up a Michigan Cherry Pie vs. some Carolina Pork.
Governors Granholm, Perdue Place Friendly Wager on NCAA Men’s Basketball Championship
LANSING – Governor Jennifer M. Granholm today placed a friendly wager with North Carolina Governor Beverly Perdue that the Michigan State University Spartans will win the 2009 NCAA Men’s Basketball Championship when they play the University of North Carolina Tar Heels Monday night at Ford Field in Detroit.
“Coach Tom Izzo and the Michigan State University Spartan men have given the state of Michigan a great gift – the chance at a national championship from the hardest working team in college basketball,” Granholm said. “Thanks to the Spartans for uplifting our entire state and for giving us hope. Their victory Saturday night was our victory, and we wish them great success in the championship game Monday night.”
Granholm and Perdue have agreed that the governor of the losing team must be photographed enjoying some tasty treats from the winning state while wearing the winning team’s jersey and hat. A photo of the occasion must be publicly released. The governor of the losing team also will donate $100 to a local food bank in the winning team’s state.
Over the years, Governor Granholm has placed similar wagers with other governors in observance of championship games with the governor sending gift packages that include Faygo soft drinks, Kowalski sausage, Bell’s beer, and Michigan cherry products.
Governor Granholm attended Saturday night’s semi-final championship game between the MSU Spartans and the University of Connecticut Huskies. She is scheduled to attend the championship game Monday evening between Michigan State and North Carolina.
I saw this little tidbit on LSJ.com
Beginning Friday, Spartan fans can get Final Four Fudge Dribble ice cream at the Michigan State University Dairy Store. The vanilla ice cream with fudge swirl sprinkled with little chocolate-covered malted milk “basketballs” is being made on campus today.
I’m working in Ann Arbor most of the day on Friday, so I’ll have to convince J to head over to East Lansing to pick up a gallon. Even without the Final Four name, it sounds like a tasty ice cream.
The entrance to Jenison Fieldhouse on MSU's campus
I wish my first visit to Jenison Field House was thirty years. When I walked in to the building for the first time, the first and only thing I could think was, “I bet this place was loud.” I knew of Jenison before I moved to Lansing. Who hasn’t? I loved watching the old clips of Magic Johnson in East Lansing. I can only imagine what the place was like. Sure, it’s huge, but those big cavernous ceilings had to make the place loud.
Jenison Field House is on the campus of MSU just off Kalamazoo Street. It’s just a block or so from it’s replacement, the Jack Breslin Student Events Center (review HERE). It’s a huge building. At first, I was wondering how they would even do basketball, but figured it out after seeing the wrestling set up.
Jenison was opened in 1940 and was the home to Spartan basketball until 1989. The facility is now used for Women’s volleyball, gymnastics, wrestling, and indoor track & field as well as a practice facility for a number of MSU sports. There is permanent seating in an upper deck that runs around the entire facility. The surface is a multi purpose rubber which is used for track and field. When other events are held in the Field House, a curtain is dropped to divide the arena into a smaller area and portable bleachers are brought in to fill out the empty spaces. Read the rest of this entry »
The view from our seats for a Michigan State basketball game at the Breslin Center
A year ago, when I stood in the Peoria Civic Center and watched Bradley University almost upset Michigan State, I never imagined that I would see this year’s Bradley/MSU from a seat in the Breslin Center. Earlier in the week, J and I made sugar cookies like we do every year from my grandma’s recipe. She took a few to work and one of her co-workers said he’d like some more. He’s got access to MSU basketball tickets and I offered up a trade. Two dozen home made sugar cookies for two tickets to the Michigan State vs. Bradley basketball game. I lived up to my end of the bargain and two days later, J came home with a pair of tickets.
I have been to a number of college basketball games, but surprisingly, never as a spectator. I do a lot of work for sports networks that broadcast these games and that’s how I usually go…including last year’s MSU/Bradley game that was aired on ESPNU. I had been to the Breslin Center one other time, but that was for a volleyball game earlier in the year, so I was really looking forward to getting to go to a game. J had never been to a college basketball game either, so it was a treat for both of us.
Before we ever got inside the Breslin Center, I already had a sour taste in my mouth. Parking sucks. Really sucks. I tried looking online for a parking map before we left, but couldn’t find anything. There were no signs directing you to a public lot and everything near the arena had a temporary sign out front that said those lots were for passes only. I finally found a paid lot on Kalamazoo heading back towards Lansing and by the time we got there, it was almost full. We were one of the last cars they let in and one of the parking attendants had to move their car to create more parking spaces. The spaces were really tight and my mid-size truck didn’t want to fit very well. Had we not left the game five minutes early, leaving would have been a mess. Read the rest of this entry »
One of the endzones at Munn Ice Arena. The view from my camera position.
I like hockey. I like going to hockey games. I like watching hockey. I don’t do enough of either, so when I got a phone call to shoot CCHA hockey at Munn Ice Arena, I was pretty psyched. I was just in Munn for the first time a week ago when I shot football across the street at Spartan Stadium and I thought then Munn would probably be a pretty good place to watch hockey. I was right.
Munn Ice Arena is located on the campus of Michigan State University between Spartan Stadium and the Jack Breslin Student Events Center. It’s a really interesting looking building. Most of the arena is actually built into the terrain. All you can see from the street is the roof of the building. When you walk in, you’re at the concourse level and have to walk down to get to your seats.
Munn is a pretty good sized stadium for a hockey only arena. The stadium holds almost 6500 people and most of those seats were pretty full the night I was there. There are also suites on either side elevated above the seating area. Most of the seating is bench seating, but the closer you get to the ice, there are some individual seats. The interesting design thing, to me anyway, was the location of the team benches. I don’t know if it’s unique to Munn or if it’s a college hockey thing (I come from an area where college hockey isn’t big, so I’ve never been to a game before). Read the rest of this entry »
From a press release…..
TEAM MSU TACKLES HUNGER
What: 2nd Annual Team MSU Tackles Hunger Food Drive for the Greater Lansing Food Bank
When: Saturday November 8, 2008 at the MSU vs Purdue game
Where: 6 collection locations on MSU Campus: Munn Field, Lot 89, Lot 92, and 3 locations around the stadium.
Becky Dantonio, event chair and wife of MSU Coach Mark Dantonio, said “last year we had a big win with over 600 pounds of donated to needy families and our goal is to double that this year. We’re going to ‘bring it’ on the field against Purdue and we’re looking to the MSU community to ‘bring it’ to donation sites.”
The Lansing Jaycees are volunteering at several of the collection sites on Saturday November 8th to do the heavy lifting and thank donors. Food Movers, a program of the Greater Lansing Food Bank, will have vehicles and staff on site to receive donations.
A campus wide food drive will begin on Monday November 3 and go thru Friday November 7th. “In these tough times it is important for us all to band together and make a difference,” said Vennie Gore, assistant vice president for Housing & Food Services.
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