Alisha Glass, and her Penn State teammates, depart for Brazil in May once school is out for two weeks of international volleyball competition. In June, the All-American will return home and work as an instructor at the Northwest Michigan Girls Volleyball Camp at Leland High School.

Record-Eagle sports writers share their takes on what Michigan State must do to upset North Carolina. Dennis Chase: Look for the unsung hero; James Cook: Exploit a matchup, again; Mike Eckert: Avoid the early knockout.

The run is done for the Michigan State women's basketball team, but head coach Suzy Merchant is still dancing. The Traverse City native will be in Detroit today for the men's Final Four attending various University functions. And when the Spartans tip at 6 p.m. with UConn in the first national semifinal, Merchant will be rooting for the Spartans.

Theres keeping it real, and then theres keeping it reel. Busy as a graduate assistant for the Michigan State basketball team, Bryan Tibaldi doesnt get to do much of the former, but the latter is another thing.

This Michigan State team is deep, multi-dimensional and capable of beating any of the other three schools still dancing. But, the Spartans won't do anything more if they rest on their laurels and buy into all of the attention they've received this week. It's been a great season, but this has the potential to be more. It could be magical.

The State Theatre will broadcast Saturday's Final Four game between Michigan State and UConn.

Traverse City Central soccer standout Dane Macdonell has verbally committed to play for Kalamazoo College.

The way Joanne P. McCallie sees it, women won two years ago when she left Michigan State to coach at Duke.

The NCAA is putting the basketball court in the middle of a football field. Even if the defending national champion's coach gets a chance to be on the sideline in Detroit again, he won't like the look and feel of the setup. Previous tournaments in football stadiums have had the floor in one end of the field.