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The Spartans proved again they can compete in the Big Ten East Division, but Dantonio must prove it all over again. An ESPN OTL investigation made several allegations about the program’s handling of sexual assaults, but Dantonio denied those claims after dismissing three players in an off-campus incident last offseason. Interim president John Engler supports Dantonio moving forward. MORE: Big Ten early conference primer It’s an indication the Spartans will be under the microscope this season, both on and off the field....

Michigan State punter Mike Sadler knows this. He took to Twitter to tell high school seniors to be on the lookout for him and fellow Spartan, quarterback Connor Cook, to crash some grad parties. Several people on Twitter responded with addresses and details (including one lucky grad who's having a s'mores bar). Meanwhile, the NCAA compliance department is already scripting their reasoning behind this as a violation.

With just under four minutes remaining and the Spartans ahead 55-53, the Izzone counted down the shot clock slower than what it actually displayed. So the buzzer sounded while the Izzone was still counting down, and the Lions fell for it. Same thing happened on Columbia’s next trip down the floor. Mind you, these are Ivy League student-athletes that the Izzone outsmarted. MORE: SN’s Top 25 recruits for 2014...

The Wolverines are a little more than halfway there, but that second half continues to elude a program desperate to join college football’s first class. That was true against the Crimson Tide for one game, and it will be the narrative again heading into the 2020 season and beyond. MORE: Breaking down Alabama’s Citrus Bowl win over Michigan The lead criticism will not change: Michigan is now 1-4 in bowl games and 0-5 against rival Ohio State — twin albatrosses that grow larger with each season — and with each big game....

At one Sunoco station in Cleveland, cars snaked down the street waiting to pay $4 a gallon to top off their tanks. Police, however, shut down the station Wednesday morning, charging the owner with price gouging. Cleveland Police dispatched cars to several gas stations “in case fights break out,” a dispatcher said. In Michigan, Attorney General Jennifer Granholm is filing charges against as many as eight gas stations for price gouging....

APPLE’S ROSY NEW OUTLOOK What if you couldn’t choose the color of your clothes?’’ Steve Jobs asks. ““And everyone had to wear beige?’’ That’s what buying computers was like before last week, when the self-described ““iCEO’’ (the ““i’’ for interim) of Apple Computer introduced more powerful versions of the top-selling machine in America, the iMac–in five lollipopping hues. For $1,199, he said, you can pick from blueberry, strawberry, lime, grape and tangerine....

In a bid to reach its goal of being carbon negative and a “zero waste” company by 2030, Microsoft outlined two new changes to Xbox settings on January 11. The company included a feature that allows the console to pick a time of the night for maintenance and updates to use the most renewable energy from the electrical grid, and a “shutdown” setting that can replace the sleep mode, which it says saves 20 times the energy....

The judge’s frustration had been mounting. Already in this early skirmish, Microsoft had submitted a legal brief questioning the technical know-how of Justice Department attorneys–and by extension the judge–who “have no vocation for software design.” It also went over his head to the appeals court. Ultimately siding with Microsoft, the appellate judges overruled Jackson and told him the courts shouldn’t be software designers. For Gates’s empire, it was a short-lived victory....

The Department of Justice announced that Microsoft Hungary, a subsidiary of Microsoft, “admits, accepts and acknowledges” wrongdoing and will pay $8.75 million in criminal fines. “According to Microsoft Hungary’s admissions, beginning by at least 2013 and continuing until at least 2015, a senior executive and other employees of Microsoft Hungary participated in a scheme to inflate margins in the Microsoft sales channel in connection with the sale of Microsoft software licenses to Hungarian government agencies,” the Department of Justice said in a statement....

Tymapnometry is performed by inserting a tool called a tympanometer into the ear canal. The tympanometer looks like an otoscope or similar to an ear thermometer, however, it delivers sound waves while a vacuum creates both positive and negative pressures within the ear canal. The returned energy creates a waveform that a physician can use to evaluate for disorders of the middle ear. The generated waveform is called a tympanogram, which can then be used by the physician to evaluate the functionality of the eardrum....

Long-running series like Grey’s Anatomy, Law & Order: SVU, NCIS, Criminal Minds and dozens of others are set to debut new episodes on their respective broadcast networks while a couple of new shows are slated to premiere at the top of the new year too. Meanwhile, fans will say goodbye to their favorite characters on a few shows, including Modern Family and The Good Place, both of which will air their final episodes of the series following premiere week....

The GOP needs seven new seats to seize the majority from Democrats. Even modest gains will make the threat of filibuster more potent than ever, and Clinton’s job harder. Forty new Republican representatives would swing the House, giving the GOP control for the first time since 1954. But that goal remains elusive even in tumultuous 1994. It’s been a century since GOP candidates last had real chances to keep control or win the governor’s office in eight of the 10 largest states....

Plenty of buzz surrounds the 6-7, 280 pound Judge, his tape-measure home runs and the rest of the Yankees’ young, talented team. They have been a boon for YES, which was off the air on Comcast last season due to a nasty carriage dispute. MORE: Don’t look now, but these Yankees are for real Now the Yankees are once again the big story in New York, while the crosstown Mets struggle with injuries....

Some of the children who escaped from the Fort Bliss facility were sent to a youth shelter in New York. A 16-year-old from Honduras said the New York shelter was better since the Fort Bliss facility would reportedly serve raw chicken at some meals. He said he felt like a hostage there as he spent the entire day in bed. “If anything, it paid off to misbehave,” the teen from Honduras said in a court declaration....

Lior Patel, from Israel, works as a full-time commercial photographer, and decided to focus on the farmyard animal for his latest project. The 42-year-old told Newsweek he’d photographed smaller flocks before, but decided to take on the epic challenge of following a herd of up to 1,700 sheep. Patel spent the last seven months following the animals as they migrated from their winter to summer pastures across Yokneam, in northern Israel....

April weather is never the most kind for baseball, with postponements often taking place the first few weeks of the season to navigate Mother Nature’s fury and petulance. The weather was no matter for Miguel Cabrera and the Tigers on Opening Day this year, though: Miggy mashed the first home run of the 2021 MLB season, an opposite field jack through snowflakes in Detroit. Cabrera seemed a bit confused on the distance of the blast, with the veteran sliding into second base thinking it was a mere double....

Seems Miguel Cabrera wasn’t being philanthropic, magnanimous or any other big, do-gooder word when he said he didn’t want his share of postseason cash. ESPN’s Jerry Crasnick, citing an unnamed official with the MLB Players Association, said Cabrera was just joking around. The Tigers slugger will complete the necessary paperwork and take his cash, other unnamed sources told Crasnick. Cabrera would forfeit upwards of $300,000 if he chooses not to sign the documents....

The ex-New York City mayor was called “condescending” and an “enormous clown” after his comments at a university event in 2016 re-emerged. A federal official appointed by President Donald Trump also took a jab at the Democratic primary candidate, saying farming equipment contained “far more tech than a Bloomberg Terminal.” In a clip from his November 2016 talk at the Saïd Business School of the University of Oxford in England, Bloomberg said: “I could teach anybody, even people in this room, to be a farmer....

But running back Mike Davis made sure that his efforts didn't go unnoticed. In the third quarter, the sophomore tailback broke off a 21-yard touchdown run that included a tremendous juke that faked Volunteers defensive back Brian Randolph out of his cleats. MORE: Week 8 live scoreboard | Midseason All-Americans | Clowney strikes again | Terrible targeting (GIF via (Buzzfeed Sports) Teammate Jadeveon Clowney was very impressed, and even tried his best imitation of the play....

The much-maligned referee’s spell in the Championship - the result of a demotion from the top flight for repeated errors - got off to a disastrous start at Barnsley on Saturday evening. Verratti gets strangest yellow card of 2017 With the home side having earned a 3-1 lead over Yorkshire rivals Leeds United, Dean - from a position a long way behind the play - awarded Garry Monk’s side a penalty for handball....