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In the news today: For our first story of the day focusing on sports, MSU students can submit short essay for chance at Pistons-Suns tickets. For our second story focusing on MSU hockey, hunters to hunted: MSU hockey set for third year under Nightingale. For our final story of the day focusing on MSU sports, MSU rugby club provides recreational outlet for women on campus.
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The State is a daily rundown of the headlines that matter to the East Lansing, MI community.
This is The State for Wednesday, October 2nd where we bring you the headlines that matter. I'm Rachel Fulton.
For our first story of the day focusing on sports,
MSU students have been offered the chance to win two tickets to the Detroit Pistons vs. Phoenix Suns NBA preseason game at Breslin Center on Oct. 8 at 7 p.m.
Current students must submit an essay, up to 100 words, sharing how "someone has made a meaningful difference in their life."
This offer was created by Shore Capital Partners, a private equity firm co-founded by Justin Ishbia, an MSU alumnus and brother of Phoenix Suns and Phoenix Mercury owner Mat Ishbia, who won the 2000 national championship with MSU men's basketball.
If granted, students will win two tickets to the game, one for themself and one for the person they wrote about.
There are 100 sets of tickets, so 200 total tickets will be given out. The deadline to enter is tomorrow at 5 p.m. The winners will receive an email with the game tickets by Oct. 6.
Shore Capital Partners Chief Operating Officer Jeff Williams said this unique experience allows students to recognize who they love in their lives and hopefully take them to the game.
Jeff said the Pistons and Suns are some of their favorite teams at Shore Capital Partners, with many members in the organization "Spartan die-hards."
For our second story focusing on MSU hockey,
As sweater weather returns to East Lansing, so will the palpable buzz inside Munn Ice Arena last winter.
Coming off its first-ever Big Ten championship and an NCAA quarterfinal appearance, Michigan State hockey hopes to rebound from last season's "bitter ending."
With just one more win needed to reach the 2024 Frozen Four, MSU lost 5-2 to rival University of Michigan after going 4-1 against the Wolverines prior to the matchup and beating them in the Big Ten Tournament Championship.
With nine new faces in green and white, two transfer students and seven freshman, the team returned 17 players for the upcoming season.
MSU is sticking to the same mentality it's had in recent years under head coach Adam Nightingale -- taking the season one game at a time. Still, this year is different, garnering the highest expectations for an MSU hockey team in well over a decade.
After falling a couple games short last March, MSU thinks it can be the final team standing in 2025.
MSU is ranked No. 1 in the Big Ten preseason poll and No. 4 in the NCAA preseason poll. The Spartans have come a long way in Nightingale's two seasons at the helm. The team that was once the hunters has become the hunted.
The Spartans begin their season in Michigan's Upper Peninsula, where they'll take on Lake Superior State University on the road on Friday at 6 p.m. at Taffy Abel Arena.
For our final story of the day focusing on MSU sports,
At 7 p.m. on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, MSU's East Neighborhood is fairly quiet.
Approaching the Vet Med Field, however, cheers, roars and grunts are heard from every angle.
It's not a concert or rally or gathering of even fifty people. It's pandemonium caused by the women who make up the MSU Rugby Football Club.
These MSU students dedicate at least six hours of the week to rugby, not including games, travel or individual practice. This time commitment is no concern to the club athletes, who are passionate about the sport and spending time with teammates, on and off the field.
The rugby season, which entails seven games – five home and two away – started Aug. 31 and finishes Nov. 2.
Each player has a different story, whether that be their respective backgrounds in rugby – or lack thereof – or how they stumbled upon the club. When they're all together on the field, they assemble and create great team chemistry.
Though the English sport has become increasingly popular in the United States, club members believe it deserves more recognition. Not many people know MSU has a rugby club, they said.
Players said they want more attention so other women at MSU can join an accepting, positive and competitive environment.
Before we end our episode, today's weather forecast is predicting mostly sunny skies with a high of 68 degrees and a low of 47 degrees.
Thank you for joining us for The State... Produced by The State News and Impact eighty-nine F-M. You can find us online at State News dot com and Impact eight-nine F-M dot org. We'll be back tomorrow with more.