Days after George Perles stunned members of the Michigan State University community by announcing that he was immediately stepping down from his board of trustees seat, MSU formally wiped out a ...

Now, that coach was dead. It was Jan. 18, a week and a half after former Michigan State football coach George Perles died following a lengthy battle with Parkinson’s disease. His family ...

You would have been forgiven for wondering how, exactly, George Perles squeezed 85 years from his long, robust, and rollicking life. He carried for decades way too many pounds. He ate lots of food ...

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.

Georges Bizet’s “Les Pêcheurs de Perles” (“The Pearl Fishers,” 1863) is an uneven work, with its seductive tunes and vigorous choruses offset by some pedestrian passages and a creaky ...

George Perles served as Michigan State's head football coach for 12 years and served as athletic director from 1990 to 1992. Hurricane season is here, and the nation's top forecaster has an urgent ...

Brian Mosallam was a senior at Dearborn Fordson High School when George Perles showed up at his house for dinner. The Michigan State football coach brough a message for the offensive line recruit ...

"Coach George Perles, my college football coach, taught me Accountability and Responsibility. He had a rule: no playing basketball during or near the start of football season. I broke that rule ...

George Perles, who coached Michigan State to a Rose Bowl victory in 1988 and was a key defensive assistant for the dominant Pittsburgh Steelers teams of the 1970s, died Tuesday. He was 85.

French composer Georges Bizet (1838 – 1875) was 25 years old when his opera, Les Pêcheurs de Perles (The Pearl Fishers), first premiered at the Theatre-Lyrique in Paris. Even though Bizet was a ...