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Jalen Nailor’s touchdown a bright spot in Week 17 loss vs. Packers

The rookie wide receiver hauled in his first career touchdown in Sunday’s blowout loss to the Packers

While the Vikings’ performance on Sunday in Green Bay was a disappointment, there was a bright spot in all of it for one player: wide receiver Jalen Nailor.

As it stands today, Nailor is the last wide receiver on the depth chart and only gets opportunities in garbage time. On Sunday, Nailor got that opportunity and he took advantage. Drafted in the sixth round out of Michigan State, Nailor is a guy who is known for his speed and taking the top off the defense.

Late in the fourth quarter, Kirk Cousins connected with Nailor on a 47-yard touchdown pass, which was the first of his career.

Nailor would end his day with three receptions for 89 yards and one touchdown but it was a nice showing for him in what was a sloppy performance by the rest of the team. It’s too early to tell if Nailor will be a consistent contributor for this Vikings offense, but if he continues to take advantage of opportunities when given the chance, he could end up carving out a role for himself.

Michigan State announces no new positives after latest round of COVID-19 testing

Michigan State administered 74 tests on Monday, July 6.

Michigan State University has announced another clean round of COVID-19 testing among its student-athletes and staff. It is the second time in ten days that MSU has reported zero new positive cases.

According a release from the university, 74 athletes and staff members were tested on July 6. This batch of players included incoming freshmen taking their second round of testing and the MSU hockey team.

Athletes who have tested negative twice have been cleared to resume football activities. Monday is the start of organized team activities for football. These activities were originally scheduled to be mandatory, but have been classified as voluntary by the Big Ten Conference. That announcement came last week under the umbrella of the conference moving fall sports to a conference-only schedule.

In total five Michigan State student-athletes have tested positive for the virus. The school gave no specifics to sport or gender of any of the positive results. Three of the positives came from tests administered on campus. It is not known whether those athletes who previously tested positive have recovered fully. Last week it was announced that athletes with positive cases stemming back to the original testing on June 15 had yet to test negative.

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Michigan State University investigating local coronavirus case, moving to online classes

The university has announced campus will remain open, but face-to-face instruction has been suspended.

COVID-19, more often referred to as “The Coronavirus” has made its way into Michigan.

Michigan State University has announced that in-person classes will be suspended in lieu of online classes. The suspension will start at Noon Wednesday, March 11 and last until at least April 20.

According to the school, “On March 11, MSU learned of an individual linked to our campus who the Ingham County Health Department is currently investigating and monitoring. The day before, state officials announced the first confirmed cases of the novel coronavirus in Michigan.”

Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer announced Tuesday night that two people in the state–in Oakland and Wayne Counties–had tested positive for COVID-19.

The school is also monitoring large-scale gatherings to be held on campus in the future, as well as limiting future events in confined spaces. “We will provide more information soon and urge everyone to consider the health implications of large gatherings and evaluate the essential nature of the events. We will not be scheduling new events with more than 100 individuals in a confined space during for this time period unless there are special circumstances,” says the release.

Michigan State is just one of many colleges or college areas impacted by the spread of COVID-19. A number of schools have switched to online classes, the Ivy League basketball tournament has been cancelled, and a number of NCAA Tournament host sites for both men and women are in cities or states that have limited or banned large-scale events. The MAC conference tournament is currently being played in Cleveland, OH–site of a pod of NCAA Tournament games–without fans due to outbreak fears. The potential for this type of scenario at sporting events across the country is growing very real.

On Wednesday morning the NCAA cancelled a media teleconference with basketball committee chair Kevin White. Thus far the NCAA hasn’t had much to say in response to their biggest event of the season being impacted by a viral disease outbreak.

More locally, the Big Ten Tournament–which kicks off Wednesday night in Indianapolis–is scheduled to go on as planned, but the conference has not updated the situation in a handful of days, during which the cases of COVID-19 in the United States have continued to grow. We will have more on this story when it is available.

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MSU star Cassius Winston shares emotional message to brother on Instagram (Spartanswire)

MSU star Cassius Winston shared an emotional message to his brother, Zachary, who died by suicide Saturday night.

MSU star Cassius Winston shared an emotional message to his brother, Zachary, who died by suicide Saturday night.