Michigan State basketball faces a challenging week with two short-prep games, starting as No. 14 Purdue visits the 13th-ranked Spartans on Tuesday.

The comeback win at Illinois gave Izzo his 354th Big Ten victory to break a tie with Bob Knight for the all-time record.

Tom Sietsema has been The Washington Post's food critic since 2000. In leaner years, he worked for the Microsoft Corp., where he launched sidewalk.com; the Seattle Post-Intelligencer; the San ...