EAST LANSING – Roosevelt Wagner waited in the front seat of his white Infiniti at Spartan Stadium in the January cold, contemplating whether he had the strength to walk inside. He was back in a town ...

EAST LANSING – George Julius Perles, the polarizing and outspoken former Michigan State University football player, coach, athletic director and Board of Trustees member, died late Tuesday night. He ...

DETROIT – A football coach’s football coach, George Perles was a tough-minded, take-no-prisoners, independent sort, who relished in unvarnished, often humorous, interviews: “I would expect the ...

ESPN's Field Yates reported on Monday that U-M is hiring Pat Perles, the son of former Michigan State coach and Board of Trustee member George Perles, as as assistant offensive line coach. Then later ...

Inheriting a moribund program, he led the Spartans to Big Ten titles and a Rose Bowl victory and later coached the Steelers’ “Steel Curtain” defense. By The Associated Press George Perles, who coached ...