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Spirit of '79 thrives at Michigan State (AP) (sports.yahoo.com)

As the newest assistant on the Michigan State staff, one of Tom Izzo's jobs was to open the gym so Magic Johnson could work out when he was in town. "I sat around there, a wide-eyed Yooper, thinking, 'This is pretty cool,"' Izzo said, using the local term for natives of Michigan's Upper Peninsula. Out of those hot August days 20-some years ago came a bond that has stretched across the generations,...