Big Ten to coaches: 'Stay put. Sideline isn't a stage.'

Watch your step, Jim Harbaugh. The rest of you Big Ten coaches, too. Conference officials are tired of coaches who treat the sideline like a stage and rage like Hamlet over calls they don't like — and they're prepared, finally, to do something about it. Of the several rules changes in store for the 2017 season, stricter enforcement of the coach's box may have the greatest impact of all. Violators are subject to a 15-yard unsportsmanlike conduct penalties. "We wouldn't take a tenth of what some coaches do and say from a player, and this is the adult in the game setting the example," coordinator of officials Bill Carollo said Tuesday at Big Ten media days. "That's kind of our thinking — 'Know what?

Ex-Michigan State football player suing Draymond Green

An incident involving one former Michigan State football player and one ex-Spartans basketball player continues to make headlines a year later. In mid-July last year, former MSU hoops star hoops star and current Golden State Warrior Draymond Green was arrested and charged with assault following an altercation at an East Lansing drinking establishment.  According to police reports at the time, the target of the alleged assault was Spartans cornerback Jermaine Edmondson. Fast-forward a little over 12 months later, and Edmondson, along with his girlfriend Bianca Williams, has filed a civil lawsuit in California against Green.  Per mlive.com, the attorney representing the plaintiffs “declined to

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  What Is Draymond Green Up Against in New Lawsuit for Alleged Assault?

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  Former Michigan State football player Jermaine Edmondson suing Draymond Green

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Michigan State has ‘been working for this year for eight, nine months now’

Frey says team wants to leave a banner as legacy CHICAGO — The Michigan State football team follows a routine every time it finishes lifting weights. After their workout, the Spartans will head into their indoor facility, where they’re surrounded by banners that decorate every wall and display past achievements and championships. There’s a banner from 2015, a year in which MSU won the Big Ten championship and made the College Football Playoff. There’s a banner from 2013, a 13-1 season in which the Spartans were first in the conference and won the Rose Bowl. According to senior linebacker Chris Frey, seeing those banners daily motivates him and his classmates — especially as they approach the

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  Michigan State's Mark Dantonio

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  James Franklin says Penn State has 'less question marks than most'

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