#Green Akers

You've not been paying attention-and why would you have been?-but three OTE writers have recently become fathers, the two of us for the first time. Of course, as we all know, that comes with loads of spare time while the little potato just lies there and requires no attention or assistance from us, no sir. What follows is a set of previews of…

You've not been paying attention-and why would you have been?-but three OTE writers have recently become fathers, the two of us for the first time. Of course, as we all know, that comes with loads of spare time while the little potato just lies there and requires no attention or assistance from us, no sir. What follows is a set of previews of…

You've not been paying attention-and why would you have been?-but three OTE writers have recently become fathers, the two of us for the first time. Of course, as we all know, that comes with loads of spare time while the little potato just lies there and requires no attention or assistance from us, no sir. What follows is a set of previews of…

We enter finals week across the country (except apparently Minnesota, Wisconsin and Maryland) and follow it up with the holiday breaks. This means there will be an unfortunate drought of good, quality college basketball games for the next two and a half weeks. Which makes this as good a time as any to check in on our beloved Big Ten basketball…

Going back to 2021, Sparty had suffered their first losing record in the conference under Tom Izzo. Things didn't meaningfully improve in 2022. After a a promising start, they waded though an inconsistent 11-9 B1G season, then flamed out in the second round of the tourney against Duke. Not a memorable season or pair of seasons, given MSU's…