Oren Basse

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Incoming Recruit Cam Ward Shines During Iverson Classic

1 week ago | theonlycolors.com | Oren Basse

Stu Boyd II-The Commercial Appeal / USA TODAY NETWORK In the 2024-25 season, a freshman named Jase Richardson surprised many and ended up being the Spartans best offensive player. In the 2025-26 season, it should not be a surprise when another freshman turns out to be a big-time scorer for Tom Izzo. At least that is what can be deduced from his performance in a recent all-star game with many of the top recruits in the current cycle.
Breaking News: Alan Haller Out As Athletic Director

2 weeks ago | theonlycolors.com | Oren Basse

MSU Athletic Department undergoing leadership change. Nick King/Lansing State Journal / USA TODAY NETWORK News broke this morning that Michigan State has relieved Alan Haller from his role as Athletic Director. Haller was in the role for three and a half years. Haller played football at MSU under George Perles from 1988-91 and has worked in the athletic department since 2010. More coverage of this breaking story to come.
More Michigan State Portal News

2 weeks ago | theonlycolors.com | Oren Basse

Adam Cairns/Columbus Dispatch / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images Happy Tuesday, TOC Nation. We have another collection of portal commitments to report to you. Ladies first. The Michigan State Women’s Basketball Team has received its third portal addition of the offseason in Canadian born Marah Dykstra. Dykstra played for the Montana State Bobcats for three seasons and has been a starter for the past two seasons. Last year, she averaged 12.4 PPG, 4.4 RPG, and 2.1 APG.
Six Spartans Getting Chances At NFL Rosters Despite Going Undrafted

2 weeks ago | theonlycolors.com | Oren Basse

Dale Young-Imagn Images NFL Draft Weekend is behind us and we are on to the next stage of roster building. After seeing just one Michigan State Spartan drafted across seven rounds, Luke Newman to Chicago, we have now heard that a number of his former Green & White teammates will still get chances at their NFL dreams. A trio of Spartans have earned Undrafted Free Agent contracts. Jonathan Kim - Kicker; Chicago BearsThe first Spartan to sign a UDFA contract after the draft was Jonathan Kim.
Michigan State Portal Updates

2 weeks ago | theonlycolors.com | Oren Basse

Matthew Dae Smith/Lansing State Journal / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images Happy Friday, TOC Nation. We are deep into transfer season at this point, but at least there won’t be more news of players leaving as the deadline for submitting your name to the portal for both basketball and football passed this past week. For MSU, there has been news from the portal, one way or another, for both of those programs as well as for hockey.
Introducing The TOC Mailbag

3 weeks ago | theonlycolors.com | Oren Basse

Good morning everyone. TOC would like to start featuring a weekly Mailbag article. Full disclosure, this is our attempt to have you help us come up with content during the offseason months. I am going to lose my mind if all I am writing about are portal moves. Do you have any questions regarding the MSU Athletic Department, or even the university as a whole? Any topics you would like to get our take on or any rants you would like us to go on?
Dillon Tatum Is Portaling

3 weeks ago | theonlycolors.com | Oren Basse

Vincent Carchietta-Imagn Images Not more than 24 hours after I mentioned in another article that he would be back this season, defensive back Dillon Tatum has dropped his name into the transfer portal. This is the first player to announce he is leaving the program since the end of spring practices. There were a few players who did decide to leave in the middle of spring, most noteworthy being Anthony Jones, a defensive end who was a regular part of last year’s rotation.
Michigan State Football Spring Practice Recap

3 weeks ago | theonlycolors.com | Oren Basse

Nick King/Lansing State Journal / USA TODAY NETWORK Michigan State completed its spring practices yesterday with the 15th and final session. They are now off until the preseason in August. Michigan State, like a number of other programs around the country, has decided to eliminate the Spring Game.
Will Any Spartans Be Selected In 2025 NFL Draft?

3 weeks ago | theonlycolors.com | Oren Basse

Dale Young-Imagn Images We are less than a week from the 2025 NFL Draft. It used to be a guarantee that some Spartans were going to be drafted, as MSU had at least one player picked in each draft from 1941 through 2020. In many of those years, there were at least a couple of Spartans selected. The impressive streak ended in 2021 but has since resumed with four players drafted in 2022, three in 2023, and one in 2024.
Trey Fort Transferring To Michigan State

3 weeks ago | sports.yahoo.com | Oren Basse

Michigan State said goodbye to Tre and will be replacing him with Trey. On Friday afternoon, On3 reported that Trey Fort has decided to join the MSU basketball team for his final season of college hoops. I know we usually wait for January to decide on player nicknames, but I think we can go ahead and give this one out now. Trey Fort has been at five different schools in five years. He will be known as Trey “The Wandering” Fort... or something along those lines.