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This Might October 30, October 29, October 26, October 19, October 18, Deborah Kanter July 9, - am Nice piece! The choice of Staters immediately ran into a stacked defense. George Alderton, the Lansing State Journal sports editor from to , disliked the nickname and refused to use it in the sports pages of the Journal.

Alderton is frequently credited with replacing Michigan Staters with the Spartans. But he got the idea from his friend, Stephen Scofes, according to the Scofes family.

Related: From the Archives: Sparty the statue. I first heard the story from Steve Scofes, 57, a Lansing-based lobbyist who heard the story from his father, George, now 89, of Okemos. It had been passed down from Steve Scofes' grandfather, Stephen Scofes, who died in , and his brothers, Peter and Nick.

The Scofes brothers were all born near Sparta, Greece but immigrated to America. Two Spartan athletic awards are named for the Scofes family. George Scofes said his father told him that Alderton came in for breakfast one day to discuss the name for the Michigan State teams.

One of the names people wanted was the Staters. The family has no doubt about the origin.