Michigan State hockey coach to retire
January 26, 2011
EAST LANSING, Mich. (AP)—Michigan State hockey coach Rick Comley isretiring after this season.
Comley, in his ninth season as the Spartans’ coach, is one of two coaches towin NCAA titles at two schools. His Michigan State team won the nationalchampionship in 2007. Comley came to the Spartans after spending 26 years asNorthern Michigan’s coach, winning an NCAA title there in 1991.
Comley also coached at Lake Superior State. His overall record at the threeschools is 778-608-110. This is his 38th season.
Michigan State athletic director Mark Hollis says a national search forComley’s replacement will begin immediately.
Guinness: Big Chill attendance was 104,173
January 10, 2011
ANN ARBOR, Mich. (AP)—The folks at Guinness World Records have a finalattendance figure for last month’s outdoor hockey game at Michigan Stadium.
Guinness records manager Mike Janela says 104,173 showed up for the gamebetween Michigan and Michigan State on Dec. 11, which easily broke the previousworld attendance record for a hockey game of 77,803.
At the time, Michigan announced the attendance as 113,411, a stadium recordfor any sporting event.
Janela says his organization’s figure doesn’t count people such asconcession workers, maintenance crews and members of the media, which may helpaccount for the discrepancy between the Guinness number and the school’s.
