Michigan and Michigan State's new in school rivalry

Two Michigan State football players have been charged in connection with a house party beat down in October. Freshman tailback Glenn Winston was hit with three counts of misdemeanor aggravated assault for his participation in the scrum while his buddy Mitchell White only faces a charge of misdemeanor assault and battery.

According to reports, the fight took place off campus in a home occupied by many Spartan hockey players and involved several people, although A.J. Sturges was the only person sent to the hospital. He sustained a head injury and has thus far been unable to play for the team.

There were between 50-60 people in Center Street, yelling at each other between 12:30 a.m. and about 1:15 to 1:30 a.m., said Aly Moore, a dietetics junior who lives on Center Street and watched the night’s events from her window.

“There was name calling, people hitting each other and then people would go away,” she said. “Then they would come back — on and off for about an hour.”

Moore’s roommate, elementary education junior Alyse Pallas, heard the incident from her second-floor bedroom.

“You could tell there were two sides versus each other,” Pallas said.

So far, neither Winston nor White have no been kicked off the team, in fact football coach Mark Dantonio hasn’t even decided if they will have to miss their next game. Come on coach, assault, battery, if ever there were grounds for suspension or explosion, those would be it.

Alas, this little game of football players versus hockey players has spread to cross state rivals Michigan. Walk-on football player Mike Milano reportedly slammed star hockey player Steve Kampfer so hard into the sidewalk that he fractured his skull and now Milano is facing two charges of assault that carry up to 11 years of prison if he is convicted. And this allegedly all over a girl? Please, walk-on football player versus hockey stud who was drafted by the Ducks, the choice seems pretty easy to me. I mean can you blame her?

Watch out Glenn, Mitch and Mike, because the popo are on your tail!
(Photo: AP; source)