PS SpartyMSU will be at the Oakland game

Izzo has to be prepared, and the guys have to lessen turnovers and hit the free throws. This week: At the Citadel, and home against Oakland university..PS: SpartyMSU will be at the Oakland game.. their Coach Greg Kampe is in his 26th season at Oakland with a 420-316 record He is a good man, great coach His program is my 2 in the entire State of Michigan. Great program there Purdue: These guys are a surprise. I did not think theyd come out of the gates so fast. Chris Kramer and E'Twaun Moore have been more than impressive. Add into the soup junior forward Robbie Hummel, and even the Spartans are going to have trouble with them. They beat a good Wake Forest team, and are Tops in the Big Ten..Next up: Valpo and at AlabamaWisconsin: Beat the Grambling Tigers and Beat Duke 73 69. But, I dont like these guys, rumors of them playing dirty and a coach they looks like Eddie Munster.. Good team, will do well, dont likeem.Next up: Green Bay, and a tough inter-state game against a very good Marquette team.Ohio State: Sweet win against Florida. 77 64. Hope Evan Turner isnt hurt and is out of the Hospital. He smashed himself on a dunk attempt and was taken quickly to hospital for back X-Rays..Next Game against Butler on the 12thIllinois: Shocker win against 18 Clemson.. They were down 22 points with 16 minutes remaining and went on a 28-4 run.. IMPRESSIVE! Next Up: Vandy and Western Michigan.Minnesota: Killed Brown, 55 91.. Lost to Miami in a close one, 58 63. Beat a good Butler team earlier Tubby has them going in the right direction..Next: Morgan State and St Josephs.Northwestern: Beat NC State Only loss was against a good Butler team.. Next up: NC A&T, and North Florida..Penn State: Beat Virginia, and lost to Temple Next Up: V Tech..

this will be a good game after a practice with the Maryland Baltimore CC Squad.Michigan: Can you believe these guys were once rated in the Top 25 not me they have 2 tough games coming up: At Utah, and against University of Detroit.. Manny Harris is their game.. and Perry shoot a good 3.. Predict middle of the pack for them in the Big Ten Soon that have a game against the Kansas J-Hawks.. will be a good test Indiana: The Big Ten needs Indiana to get good Coach Tom Crean is probably one of the next great coaches in the Big Ten.. But, he needs to get the Hoosiers on a winning track. He inherited a mess, but will turn the program around. No impressive wins. And spanked by Maryland. Look out for what comes nextNext up: Pittsburg and KentuckyIowa.. http:// On !!! This article is also featured on SpartyMSU. NEW YORK (Reuters) - Planned layoffs at U.S.

firms eased in December from the previous month's seven-year high but they were up an astounding 275 percent annually as the year-old recession cut a huge swathe of destruction through job market. Hot Stocks Small Business EconomyThe economic slump, which is likely to be the longest since the Great Depression of the 1930s, also produced the worst year of layoffs since 2003, outplacement company Challenger, Gray & Christmas said on Wednesday in its monthly report on U.S. job cuts.The report said heavy job-cutting could continue through at least the first half of 2009, and the outlook afterward hinges on President-elect Barack Obama's plans to stimulate the economy through increased government spending."The economy could begin to mount a comeback in the second half of the year, if the new administration can achieve quick passage of its proposed economic and job-growth stimulus package," said John Challenger, chief executive officer of Challenger, Gray & Christmas."The plan to rebuild the nation's crumbling infrastructure will benefit not only laborers on the front lines, but it will push up through the economy, creating jobs for manufacturing workers, engineers, architects, technology specialists, etc."Job cuts announced in December totaled 166,348, down 8.4 percent from November's 181,671, Challenger, Gray & Christmas said. Despite the monthly decline, layoffs were up from just 44,416 in the year-ago period.Overall, employers announced 1,223,993 job cuts in 2008, the largest annual total since 2003, when there were 1,236,426 job cuts.The year-end total was up 59 percent from the 768,264 layoffs announced in 2007. It was the largest total for any December since Challenger started tracking layoffs in 1993.Employers announced 460,903 job cuts in the fourth quarter alone, producing the largest one-quarter total since 478,905 job cuts were announced in the first three months of 2002.The financial sector was at the epicenter of the economic turmoil in 2008 and, not surprisingly, job cuts.The financial sector announced plans to shed 260,110 workers, the third largest annual industry total on record behind the 317,777 job cuts and 268,851 job cuts announced by the telecommunications sector in 2001 and 2002, respectively.The automotive industry was the second-biggest downsizing industry of the year, with 127,281 announced cuts followed by transportation at 82,859.The financial sector also topped the December layoffs with 39,604.The Challenger data comes ahead of the government's closely watched non-farm payrolls report on Friday, which is expected to show 500,000 jobs were lost in December, according themedian of forecasts in a Reuters poll.(Reporting by Burton Frierson; Editing by Leslie Adler& by Theodore d'Afflisio) Hot Stocks Small Business Economy. It has all come down to this: Italys most famous three teams face vital midweek showdowns that will decide their European footballing fate. Inter, Juventus, and Milan could all tumble out of the Champions League if results go against them, but, at least, their fates are in their own hands. Incredibly, Serie As comparative minnows Fiorentina are already through. Allow me to pause for a moment to savour that statement... Unlike the Viola, however, the rest of the Italian teams face three key clashes that will go a long way to deciding how successful their seasons have been.

There is little doubt Inter have the most to lose. Inter has won the Italian league so often recently that the trophy has come to seem like part of the furniture at the Giuseppe Meazza stadium. Such is the nature of Inters group that it could sneak through with a share of the spoils. In some ways, it would be a fitting end to a pretty lacklustre campaign. Javier Zanetti and company warmed up for the key match with a league defeat to Juve which cut their lead at the top of Serie A to just four points. If they collapse out of Europe, it would crown a bad week. Their weekend conquerors, Juventus, also face a tricky tie. On Tuesday night, Bayern Munich visit Turin in an all-or-nothing game for the German side. Nothing less than a win will do for Louis van Gaals men if they are to keep their campaign alive. Ciro Ferraras men were boosted by the weekend win over Inter and progress in Europe would be a further tonic to the young manager. It is likely to be a night in which nerves are tested to the full. The most comfortable of Italys trio of giants should be Milan. Milan travels to Zurich, who shocked the team in the San Siro, knowing that even in defeat it might make it through.