MSU FPA Members,

This year your MSU FPA Board has made arrangements with Kellogg Center to serve as a host hotel for our members seeking a place to stay while in East Lansing for the Spring Football Game and the MSU FPA Golf outing. The following is a promotional from the hotel.

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MSUFPA Members,

April 19th, 2013 is set for our 11th Annual MSUFPA Tony Conti Golf and Social Outing. Attached to this article is your reservation document that needs to be completed and sent back in no later than April 12th, 2013.

Please attend if you are able, your support is valued! The event will take place at The Brookshire Inn & Country Club in Williamston, Michigan. Our event this year will be on Friday and starts at 9:00 AM with registration and a continental breakfast. We will commence with a shotgun start at 10:00 AM. Lunch will be served at 12 noon for non-golfers and those wishing just to come and meet old acquaintances and socialize. Finally, after golf we will have Dinner around 5:00 PM. You will get a chance to meet with all our coaches.

The Golf Outing this year will precede the Spring Football Game set for Saturday, the 20th of April. Game time is set for a 2:30 PM start time.

PLEASE NOTE THIS GOLF OUTING IS FOR FORMER SPARTAN FOOTBALL PLAYERS, COACHES & MANAGERS ONLY!

If you are having trouble viewing the registration form, please make sure you have Adobe PDF Reader installed.

For six weeks, the nation's top coaches will be counting on fans like you to vote for their favorite charity. Vote for your coach's favorite charity in each region - East, South, West and Midwest (Izzo). Increase their chances by sharing with your friends. The coaches receiving the most votes in each region gain a spot in the finals, with the winning coach receiving $100,000 toward his charity (each coach will get $5,000 for his favorite cause). So start voting now!

Help Coach Izzo by submitting your vote below!

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We would like to call your attention to the Michigan State Baseball 8th Annual “FIRST PITCH DINNER” on Sunday, February 3rd. It is to start at 12:00pm for Arrival, Silent Auction and Player Autographs. Dinner will be held at 1:00pm at the Kellogg Center within the Big Ten Rooms B & C.

Attendees at the “First Pitch Dinner” will enjoy:
-Door prizes and silent auction items featuring Michigan State Baseball sports memorabilia
-2013 MSU Season Ticket Card
-2013 Spartan Baseball Poster
-Head Coach Jake Boss, Jr. presenting your 2013 Spartans
-Special Tribute to the Annual “CrossTown Showdown” vs. the Lansing Lugnuts

Tom Yewcic (a past MSU football player and an All-American) is the 2012 Baseball Alumnus of the Year Honoree.

Please press read more below to download the attached flyer for more details.

WESTERN SPRINGS — Businessman John Walsh was recently inducted into the Circle of Champions - Brother Rice High School Athletic Hall of Fame.

A 1961 graduate of Brother Rice, Walsh was co-captain, MVP player, and played football at Michigan State University. He also served in the U.S. Marine Corps Reserve. Walsh was president and chief executive officer of La Marche Manufacturing Company in Des Plaines, and president and chief operating officer of Basler Electric Company in Highland, Ill. Walsh is a 40-year resident of Western Springs.

Walsh provides management consulting and executive coaching as president of For Leadership Growth, Inc. He regularly speaks on such topics as leadership, teamwork, customer focus and business growth.

We wanted to share a special book with you. Jack Ebling, a three-time Michigan Sportswriter of the Year and 2006 inductee into the Greater Lansing Area Sports Hall of Fame has written his 7th book and 5th on MSU (Which have included Spartan Champions, JUD: A Magical Journey, Magic Moments, and Green Glory )

This time, he captures our Football program with in depth profiles of former and current players, a historical narrative and the last two seasons in week by week writings as they happened.

Coach Izzo wrote the foreword and Matt Mitchell (MSU's Athletic Communications photographer) provided all the photos from the last two incredible seasons.

Heart of a Spartan is an oversized coffee table book (10.75" x 10.75") that captures the winningest back-to-back seasons in MSU football history. Read a historical narrative that weaves through the ups and downs since the beginning of Spartan Football and relive the glory of the great victories and greatest moments of 2010-12. See how – and why – a team transformed from tribulations to trophies. Meet the players and coaches who've taken the program to a new level, and see vignettes of 33 of the most important Spartans that have led the program since the 40's.

The publisher has agreed to donate $10 of every purchase made in the online store only to the Michigan State University Football Players Association.

To see more on the book and to purchase. Order one for yourself, or gift as many as you want. They will ship directly to your recipients.

To order, visit www.SportLansing.com/heartofaspartan & use Promo Code: MSUFPA

Link with code already entered into form you can share:

https://www.sportlansing.com/heartofaspartan/index.php?promo_code=MSUFPA

Message users will see when code is applied: 

$10.00 per book will benefit the Michigan State University Football Players Association. 

 

Go Green !!!

 

Con Demos

Media Director

MSU FPA

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