No, it's not outside this time, but the Michigan State hockey team is playing the University of Michigan tomorrow and Saturday night in a home-and-home series that kicks off in Ann Arbor. UM is ranked No. 1 in the country and MSU is No. 5, as well as the 2007 national champion, so it should be a barnburner.
UM has Porter and Kolarik, who score goals like crazy, but MSU has Jeff Lerg, who comes up with huge saves in big games and Bryan Lerg (they're cousins) the captain who always seems to come up big in the clutch.
MSU-UM games always have an extra level of intensity and grit and I'm sure the atmosphere will be electric in both Yost and Munn. These two teams have played each other more often than just about any other college teams, with the exception of North Dakota and Minnesota (or at least that's what the NCAA tells me). The hockey clash has become the true rivalry between the schools. Because MSU's football team has been so awful for so long, that tilt has lost its luster. The same is true for UM's basketball team. The Sparties usually wipe the floor with them (MSU hosts UM in basketball this Sunday -- a total rivalry weekend). Only the hockey teams have remained fairly evenly matched.
Thank goodness the games are on Fox Sports Detroit and that we ponied up for the Sports Pack in addition to Center Ice. I know what I'm doing this weekend.
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