Another fourth-quarter fade for Michigan State football has Jonathan Smith's program, with a seventh straight loss, on the verge of a dubious record.

Michigan narrowly beat Northwestern despite five turnovers. Can they correct ball security issues to salvage their playoff hopes against top competition?

Taylor, 7-foot-1 and 244 pounds, is the No. 2 center and No. 23 player overall in the class. He picked the Spartans over his other finalists, Oregon, Kansas, Indiana and Oklahoma, while calling it “a pretty easy choice” due to Izzo and the fan base.

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Penn State walked into East Lansing carrying more than a game plan. The Nittany Lions needed proof—proof that the season still held meaning, that the locker room hadn't splintered, that Terry Smith's interim leadership could stabilize a program absorbing body blows from every direction.

In recent decades, the number of Catholics the Archdiocese of Detroit ministers has dropped from about 1.5 million to about 900,000.