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B10 fall sports are officially postponed, MSU receives verbal commitments in football and basketball, Tillman TED talks about his NBA transition, and we take your Twitter questions. Follow us @Spartan_Pod

Frequent CRCW contributor and public health expert Alex Plum joins the podcast to discuss all the happenings in college athletics. We talk about the exhausting weekend that was, public health in general, and how it relates to college athletics. Then, as always, we take your Twitter questions. Join the discussion on Twitter @Spartan_pod

MSU finally knows what its future roster will look like with Xavier Tillman electing to remain in the NBA draft and Aaron Henry deciding to return to East Lansing. We also talk about college football in East Lansing and on the west coast, and continue the conversation surrounding treatment of student athletes. Then, as always, we take your Twitter questions. Join in the conversation @Spartan_pod.&...

MSU football is team building in COVID isolation, recruits are making decisions, and the MLB & NBA are desperately trying to put sports on TV for your eyeballs. Oh, and it's the final week of July Twitter questions, and definitely nothing worthwhile or interesting happens at all don't worry about it, LOL, you might as well not listen because we definitely don't have a special guest or anything...

There are goings ons in football and basketball, as well as traction on the Name Image and Likeness front. Then we get into your third week of July Twitter questions. Join us next week, THE FINAL WEEK, @ Spartan_Pod

The Big Ten Conference has chosen its method for kicking the can down the road, the Washington football team finally confronts the can its been kicking, and we have week TWO of July Twitter questions. Join in the conversation next week @Spartan_Pod

MSU Basketball recruiting is keeping energy levels high, the tea leaves are starting to spell doom for fall sports, and it's the first week of July Twitter Power Rankings! Join in the conversation @Spartan_Pod

Tom Izzo lands the biggest recruit of his career - assuming he makes it to East Lansing. We talk about Emoni as a player and what it means for the program. Then we discuss how Mel Tucker is deciding to spend time with his team, make a couple jokes at Harper's expense, and take your Twitter questions. Next week is July Twitter madness! Join us in the discussion @spartan_pod

This week we talk about the failure to launch several (mostly southern) football camps, continued social change across college sports and the nation, MSU football and basketball recruiting, strange happenings in B10 hoops transfers, and your Twitter questions. Please join us in the discussion @Spartan_Pod

MSU student athletes are lining up (6 ft apart!) for their COVID tests, the winds shift slightly in '21 basketball recruiting, and we allow ourselves to believe sports will actually come back.  Then, of course, we take your twitter questions. As always, you're welcome to join in the conversation @spartan_pod. 

We talk about the continuing societal and pandemic (' pandemical' ?) changes across the sports landscape and closer to home. Oh, and Curtis Blackwell generated some more headlines this week. Then we announce the winner of the May Twitter power rankings, and take your questions for the week. To join in the conversation, follow us @Spartan_pod

MSU is going back in the fall, Michigan is opening up this weekend (with restrictions, obvi), but these are still very uneasy times. Can't Read, Can't Write broadens it's scope, as we discuss societal injustice and other topics of the day. Then we lighten the mood with your Twitter questions. Thank you for the Twitter questions.  Want to contribute next week? Please follow us @spartan_pod

Joshua Langford means to return to MSU basketball, Football has a decommitment, Curtis Blackwell gets an update on his case, and we take final week of May Twitter Questions. Would you like to participate in June? Just follow us @spartan_pod

Football recruiting may have hit a bump, Xavier TIllman says he's 50/50, intra-B10 basketball transfers heat up, and it's the second to last week of May Twitter questions.  Would you like to participate next week? Follow us @spartan_pod

You demanded it, so we asked CRCW contributor Alex Plum to join us as a cohost to talk the week's news and then answer your twitter questions. Would you like to participate next week? Follow us @spartan_pod Also, please tune in to MSU virtual commencement on Saturday, May 16th at 10am EST on Facebook and MSU.edu to support the class of 2020.

The podcast starts with some heavy topics that need to be examined, but then we’re joined by Tara Stafford for a more lighthearted discussion of sorting the B10 schools and May Twitter questions week one! If you'd like to participate in the future, follow us @spartan_pod and please follow Tara @tarastafford

MSU football has players drafted for the 80th consecutive year, Aaron Henry flirts with the NBA, and it's the final week of April Twitter Power Rankings! If you'd like to participate in the future, follow us @spartan_pod.

Mel Tucker is adding to '21 Built Strong , Tom Izzo has some things to say about the NCAA transfer situation, Juwan Howard has a rough week in recruiting, and we have the penultimate week of April Twitter Power Rankings. The questions are varied and fantastic.  If you'd like to participate next week - the final week - just follow us @spartan_pod.

Mel Tucker starts getting his guys, MLB talks about shaking it up, the XFL takes a bow, Jim Harbaugh says things into a microphone, and we continue the April Twitter competition. If you'd like to participate next week as we enter the home stretch, just follow us @spartan_pod.

We talk about football and basketball recruiting, developments in the Curtis Blackwell case, transfers across the B10, and week 3 of Twitter power rankings. If you'd like to participate next week, just follow us @spartan_pod.

We talk about Mel Tucker's public outreach, Xavier Tillman is testing the NBA waters, and we have Twitter power rankings: Week 2. If you'd like to participate next week, just follow us @spartan_pod.

We have MSU related topics to discuss! The football staff flexes its social media savvy, there were developments in the Curtis Blackwell case, and we get some clarity around NCAA eligibility concerns for winter and spring sport student athletes. Then, as always, we take your twitter questions. Care to participate in those? Just follow us @spartan_pod.

We find ways to talk MSU: coaches salaries and Cassius on SportsCenter. We deep dive on Curtis Blackwell’s latest allegations. And of course, tackle your Twitter questions. Follow us on Twitter @spartan_pod and a special shout out to @louislyndon31 for your backyard wrestling needs.

The NCAA and Big Ten Tournaments are canceled for public health reasons. Basketball careers have been tragically cut short. We talk about it, we mourn the loss, and we look forward.  Please follow us on Twitter at @Spartan_Pod

Grech decides vacation is more important than the pod, so @plumalex joins Mike for a lo-fi edition of Can’t Read, Can’t Write. They chat back to back to back Big Ten Championships, the Mel Tucker Brinks Truck, and Coronavirus. The show wraps with a preview the Big Ten Tournament and answers to your Twitter questions. Follow us on Twitter @spartan_pod.