Author: Phil Friend, Lansing State Journal

A lot of basketball fans were surprised to see Barry Sanders appear on TV Sunday wearing a Michigan State cap. There’s a simple explanation why.

Michigan State coach Mel Tucker bought dinner Thursday night for the night shift caregivers at Sparrow Hospital in Lansing.

Bank of Ann Arbor in Michigan put up billboards with six slogans in the Lansing and Ann Arbor areas congratulating Michigan State’s Final Four berth.