MSU coach Tom Izzo broke his silence on allegations of sexual assault within his program, the handling of the story and the college hoops fraud case.
ROSEMONT, Ill. — Tom Izzo wanted to talk about defending champion Michigan State’s upcoming season at Big Ten media day.
Instead, he used Thursday to get a few things off his chest.
Nine months’ worth of grievances emphatically poured out of Izzo during his nearly hour-long roundtable with reporters. The 24th-year coach reserved his strongest comments for ESPN and its usage of a photo with Izzo, football coach Mark Dantonio and disgraced sports medicine doctor Larry Nassar during the Outside the Lines segment on sexual assault allegations in the football and basketball programs.