Pat Fitzgerald debuts dizzy bat hot dog race at close of final spring practice

Pat Fitzgerald is trying to do more than just turn around what is now a moribund Michigan State football program. The longtime head coach at Northwestern is also trying to have a little fun while doing it, as he showed at the end of the Spartans’ final spring practice. For those loyal Northwestern fans who cheered for Fitzgerald as a player and then watched him coach in Evanston from 2006-22, they probably became familiar with the dizzy bat hot dog race that was uniquely Fitzgerald’s on an annual basis. Now, as Pat Fitzgerald takes over in East Lansing, with the...