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Michigan State Men’s Basketball C Carson Cooper Speaks on G Jaden Akins’ Progression, Senior Season
Michigan State men’s basketball guard Jaden Akins will be taking on a significant role next season.
Up until now, Akins has served as a role player for the Spartans, and he has excelled. But the senior guard will now be tasked with leading a much-modified Michigan State squad.
Akins’ teammate, Spartan center Carson Cooper, has seen the progression so far this offseason.
Cooper spoke on Akins’ transition into this new role when he and Spartan transfer forward Frankie Fidler recently joined “The Spiro Avenue Show.”
“I mean — I’m sure Frankie [Fidler] can even attest to it — like, even this first week back that we have, just seeing him in the gym, him kind of beginning to open his mouth, be a good leader, being that vet that’s been here for four years and knows the ropes,” Cooper said. “Everyone’s trusting his voice, but also, he’s on the court, and he’s — even in open gyms — he’s running everything, and I think he’s ready to make that big step to prove that he’s that sophomore-year Jaden, where he’s ready to go out and prove that he can score on anybody, he can defend anybody, and he can really grit and just be the player for our team.”
Akins shared the court with two great Spartan guards — Tyson Walker and A.J. Hoggard — whose presence may have limited him from displaying his full potential.
“I think it was tough, too, with that aspect, but also with trying to get him to play his game,” Cooper said. “I think like last year and stuff like that, with the way that he was getting his shots was like catch-and-shoot, more off-the-ball stuff. I think this year, he’s going to be having the ball in his hands a lot more, and I think he’s more comfortable with that, being able to work through pick-and-rolls more and being able to kind of create shots for himself and for others. I think that’s, honestly, more of his game. So, I think now that those guys are kind of gone, it kind of opens up more leeway for him, and even seeing him play, I’m excited about it.”
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LSU big man Jalen Reed commits to Michigan | UM Hoops.com
Michigan added a commitment from 6-foot-10, 245-pound LSU big man Jalen Reed today.
Reed suffered season-ending injuries in back-to-back seasons at LSU, playing 6 games in 2025-26 before an Achilles injury in November and eight games in 2024-25 before an ACL injury.
He is a former top-100 prospect as a recruit and started for LSU in 2023-24, averaging 7.9 points and 4.1 rebounds per game.
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Police say Oakland County teen missing, endangered
Authorities are asking for the public’s assistance to find a missing Oakland County teen who is considered endangered.
Adrianna Smith, 15, was last seen in the 3500 block of South Fenton Road, just south of the city of Holly in northwest Oakland County, according to Michigan State Police.
She is believed to have left her home in a 2002 Jeep Liberty with an adult male, possibly a man named Derek Girtman, MSP said.
Smith is described as having blonde hair and green eyes. She is about 5 feet, 7 inches tall and 160 pounds. She has one tattoo above her right knee and another on her left ankle.
Anyone with information about Adrianna’s whereabouts is asked to call 911 or the MSP Metro North Post at either (800) 495-4677 or (989) 370-8926.
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US supreme court sides with Michigan in its fight to shut down ageing pipeline
The supreme court on Wednesday sided with Michigan in ruling that the state’s lawsuit seeking to shut down a section of an ageing pipeline beneath a Great Lakes channel will stay in state court.
Justice Sonia Sotomayor wrote for a unanimous court that the Enbridge energy company waited too long to try to move the case to federal court.
The case is part of a messy legal dispute about a pipeline that has moved crude oil and natural gas liquids between Superior, Wisconsin, and Sarnia, Ontario, since 1953.
Dana Nessel, Michigan’s attorney general, sued in state court in June 2019 seeking to void the easement that allows Enbridge to operate a 4.5-mile (6.4km) section of pipeline under the straits of Mackinac, which link Lake Michigan and Lake Huron. Nessel, a Democrat, won a restraining order shutting down the pipeline from Ingham county judge James Jamo in June 2020, although Enbridge was allowed to continue operations after meeting safety requirements.
Enbridge moved the lawsuit into federal court in 2021, arguing it affects US and Canadian trade. But a three-judge panel from the sixth US circuit court of appeals sent the case back to Jamo in June 2024, finding that the company missed a 30-day deadline to change jurisdictions.
The pipeline at issue is called Line 5. Concerns over the section beneath the straits rupturing and causing a catastrophic spill have been growing since 2017, when Enbridge engineers revealed they had known about gaps in the section’s protective coating since 2014. A boat anchor damaged the section in 2018, intensifying fears of a spill.
The Michigan department of natural resources under Gretchen Whitmer, the state’s governor, revoked the straits easement for Line 5 in 2020. Enbridge filed a separate federal lawsuit challenging the revocation.
Enbridge won a ruling from a federal judge blocking the move, but Whitmer, a Democrat, has appealed to the sixth US circuit court of appeals. In March, the supreme court rejected Whitmer’s appeal claiming that she couldn’t be sued in federal court.
It was unclear how the federal ruling blocking Whitmer’s revocation attempt would affect Nessel’s case in state court. The company said in a statement that the judge in the Whitmer case had already decided federal regulators, not the state, are responsible for Line 5 safety and they had found no issues that would warrant shutting it down.
Enbridge also is seeking permits to encase the section of pipeline beneath the straits in a protective tunnel. The Michigan public service commission granted the relevant permits in 2023, but a coalition of environmental groups and Michigan tribes has filed a lawsuit seeking to void state permits for the tunnel. The state supreme court is weighing that case.
Enbridge also needs approval from the US army corps of engineers and the Michigan department of environment, Great Lakes and energy.
The pipeline is at the center of a separate legal dispute in Wisconsin as well. A federal judge in Madison last summer gave Enbridge three years to shut down part of Line 5 that runs across the Bad River Band of Lake Superior’s reservation. The company has appealed against the shutdown order to the seventh US circuit court of appeals, but it started work in February to reroute the line around the reservation.
The Bad River Band and environmental groups have filed a state lawsuit seeking to halt the work, arguing regulators have underestimated the damage the reroute construction will cause. That case also is pending.
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