Listen: Game of the Week TONIGHT!

Tune in for Game of the Week tonight (7-10 P.M.) on 88.3 WCBN-FM Ann Arbor.

ALSO, be sure to call in to the show to comment on Michigan sports or compete in our Family Feud Trivia (8 P.M.): 734-763-3500

Big Weekend on WCBN

Tune in for a big weekend of Michigan sports on WCBN this weekend...

TONIGHT: Michigan Hockey's home opener against the Niagara Purple Eagles (7:35 P.M.) on YouCastr.com

TOMORROW: Game of the Week (7-10 PM) on 88.3 WCBN-FM Ann Arbor -- Call in to the show at 734-763-3500 to talk Michigan sports or answer Family Feud trivia questions in the 8 o' clock hour

SATURDAY: Michigan Football takes on #13 Penn St. (3:30) LIVE from the Big House on YouCastr.com

Listen: Michigan at Iowa (8:12 EST)

Listen to WCBN Sports when Michigan looks for their first road victory of the season, as the Wolverines take on the Iowa Hawkeyes.

...after a seven-hour ride through the middle of nowhere, we are in iowa city, and it's not much different. scroll down and look to the right to check out our tweets from th

e day, which features the news that students at iowa throw rocks and boomerangs. seriously. also, there's a lot of corn here...

Game: Michigan @ #12 Iowa

Time: 8:12 P.M. EST (7:12 CST)

Venue: Kinnick Stadium in Iowa City, IA

Weather: Cold

Apparel: MAIZE pants (not white)

Line: Iowa -8.0

Broadcast Link: YouCastr Sports

...unfortunately, we are not in the press box. instead, we are in a hut (literally) next to the student section. if you are looking for the best view of the end zone with "hawkeyes" written, then we're your guys. otherwise, you may have to bear with us. our view is below, and yes, those are the speakers you see at movie theater concession stands...

Ahead on WCBN in 2009

Following a 2008 that saw WCBN cover a record-setting Michigan football season (not in a good way) and make our "Trek Across America", 2009 has even more to offer.

Weekly Schedule:

Monday: Extra Points (6-6:30pm)

Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday: Daily Sports Report (5:15-5:30pm)

Friday: Game of the Week (7-10pm)

Michigan Basketball:

Home games broadcast LIVE on 1/11, 1/17, 1/24, 2/5, 2/10, 2/19, 2/26

1 or 2 road games broadcast LIVE (To Be Announced)

LIVE coverage of the Big Ten Tournament from Indianapolis for a 2nd straight year (3/12-3/15)

LIVE coverage of the NCAA Tournament (???)

Michigan Hockey:

Home games broadcast LIVE on 1/9, 1/10, 1/16, 1/23, 1/24, 1/31, 2/7, 2/13, 2/14, 2/28

LIVE coverage of the CCHA tournament (3/6, 3/7, 3/8, 3/13, 3/14, 3/15, 3/20, 3/21)

LIVE coverage of the NCAA Tournament (???)

Michigan Baseball:
Home games broadcast LIVE on 3/20, 3/21, 3/22, 3/25, 3/31, 4/1, 4/3, 4/4, 4/5, 4/7, 4/8, 4/10, 4/11, 4/12, 4/13, 4/14, 4/15, 4/18, 4/21, 4/24, 4/25, 4/26 (Weather Permitting)

LIVE coverage of the first annual Big Ten/Big East Challenge on 2/20, 2/21, and 2/22
LIVE coverage of Michigan's second annual exhibition game against the New York Mets on 3/8

Additional Programming:

Michigan Women's Basketball

Michigan Softball

College Hoops Picks

WCBN's traditional Masters Week

WCBN Trivia

High-profile interviews (To Be Announced)

NFL Playoffs, Super Bowl, NCAA Signing Day, NBA All Star Game, March Madness bubble watch, Australian Open, PGA Tour, etc.

And Much More...

PROGRAM NOTE: UM-OU Live @ 4pm

Just a reminder that we will have the Michigan-OU game LIVE on our YouCastr site.  Matt Boyer and Mike Silverman will have the call from the Palace of Auburn Hills at 4PM.  To access the game, click on our YouCastr link on the right hand margin of our page.  We hope you'll tune in for what should be a great game.

Listen: Michigan Women's Basketball LIVE Tonight

Listen to Carly Benson and the Michigan Wolverines take on the Cincinnati Bearcats tonight with WCBN's Stu Zaas on YouCastr.com.

MICHIGAN-DUKE LIVE ON WCBN AT 3:20PM ET

For the 2nd time in a little more than 2 weeks, Michigan Basketball is set to face #4 and unbeaten Duke. Our LIVE coverage from sold-out Crisler Arena begins at 3:20pm, with the tip-off slated for 3:32pm. Rob Salaman, Andrew Seid, Rushi Vyas and Matt Boyer will be on hand for the call. Click on the link below and then the WCBN Sports Stream. GO BLUE!!!

LISTEN HERE!!!   

Programming Schedule

Good news first: Charlie Weis coming back to Notre Dame (really???)

Friday 12/5: Game of the Week

 -Michigan Hockey vs Michigan State: LIVE on 88.3 WCBN and wcbn.org at 7pm

Saturday 12/6

 -Michigan Basketball vs Duke (part II): LIVE on the WCBN Sports Stream, accessed off wcbn.org at 3:20pm

Programming Schedule

Here's our schedule for later this week.  All games are available on the WCBN Sports Stream, accessed off www.wcbn.org

Thursday (11/20): Michigan Basketball vs UCLA @ Madison Square Garden (9:20) LIVE

Friday (11/21): Michigan Basketball vs Southern Illinois/Duke @ MSG (5 or 7:20) LIVE

Saturday (11/22): Michigan Football @ Ohio State (12:00) LIVE

Trek Across America

Join WCBN Sports next week LIVE in New York City and Columbus, Ohio. We have confirmed we will be broadcasting from Madison Square Garden in New York for the semifinals and championship round of the 2K Sports Classic benefiting Coaches vs. Cancer.  Michigan will play UCLA or Miami (Ohio) on Thursday night at 9:00 and either Duke or Southern Illinois on Friday.  Then Saturday, we will broadcast the final Michigan football game of the season, as Michigan battles their arch-rival Ohio State at high-noon in Columbus.  3 Games... 3 days... 2 cities... all on WCBN.

Programming Schedule

All games, unless noted, are available on the WCBN Sports Stream

Tuesday- November 11th

6:50- Michigan Basketball vs Michigan Tech

Wednesday- November 12th

4:50 or 7:50- Michigan Basketball vs IUPUI or Northeastern

7:00- Michigan Volleyball vs Ohio State [Available on MGoBlue.com]

Friday- November 14th

7:30- Michigan Hockey vs Western Michigan [Also available on 88.3 WCBN FM]

Saturday- November 15th

12:00- Michigan Football vs Northwestern

PROGRAMMING NOTE: Michigan Basketball LIVE on WCBN Thursday

Good to see the increased traffic on the site.  WCBN will be broadcasting all Michigan home basketball games LIVE this year for the first time.  Our coverage begins Thursday night at 6:50pm with Michigan vs. Saginaw Valley State in an exhibition game from Crisler.  You can listen on the WCBN Sports Stream, available on wcbn.org.

***REALLY REALLY BIG SHOW ON FRIDAY NIGHT***

Confirmed so far is Big Ten Network studio host Dave Revsine.

You can tune in from 7-10pm on 88.3 WCBN FM in Ann Arbor, Michigan or online at wcbn.org.

More info to come on additional guests as confirmed...

UPDATE #1: Travis Johnson, Senior Football Writer for The Daily Collegian at Penn State will be joining us.

UPDATE #2: Hall of Fame Boxing Writer and Michigan Law School alum Bert Sugar will preview Kelly Pavlik-Bernard Hopkins with us.

UPDATE #3: John Heuser of the Ann Arbor News will discuss Michigan football.

***TENTATIVE PROGRAMMING SCHEDULE: FRIDAY 10/17 ***

7-7:45: MLB- ALCS, NLCS  

            NFL- Cowboys, Around the League

-7:45: Bert Sugar

8:00: Michigan hockey, volleyball

-8:15: Dave Revsine

8:30-10: Michigan-Toledo, Michigan-Penn State, NCAA Football, "He Said What?" (New Segment)

-8:45: John Heuser

-9:15: Travis Johnson

9:45: College Picks

Game of the Week: Friday on WCBN

Coverage from 7-10pm on 88.3 WCBN fm in Ann Arbor and online at wcbn.org. 

Rough schedule: 

7pm Michigan-Wisconsin Preview/NCAAF

8pm NFL/Lions/MLB

9pm The Return of WCBN Trivia (yes!!!)

9:45pm College Picks

WCBN College Picks Standings after Week 4

Congrats to JK who went 5-0 last week. Here's where we stand:

1 Stu        (13-7)

2 Rob      (12-8)

3 JK        (11-9)

4 Seid      (9-6)

5 Rushi    (6-6)

5 Tobin    (5-5)

6 Jeremy (9-11)

7 Wiggles (4-6)

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Christian (4-1)

Nick          (3-2)

Matt         (1-4)

*** PROGRAMMING NOTE: We have a BIG show planned for Friday night (7-10pm) on 88.3 WCBN FM.  More details to come later (as finalized) in the week...

*** BRIAN COOK OF MGOBLOG LIVE ON WCBN AT 7:30PM ***

Brian Cook of Mgoblog.com is scheduled to join WCBN live in studio at 7:30pm Friday night. Our coverage begins at 7pm with a full recap of Michigan-Utah, preview of Michigan-Miami (Ohio), a look ahead to the start of the NFL season, college picks and much more. You can listen on 88.3 WCBN FM in Ann Arbor or online at wcbn.org.

UPDATE: Mike Cohen, the student radio play-by-play voice of Miami football, will join us LIVE in the 9:00pm hour tomorrow night.

***TERRY BOWDEN LIVE AT 7:20PM ON WCBN TONIGHT***

Former Head Coach and Current Westwood One Radio Analyst Terry Bowden has confirmed that he will join us LIVE tonight at 7:20pm EDT on WCBN. You can listen on wcbn.org or on 88.3 WCBN FM. We will talk about the Michigan State-Cal game he is covering this weekend, Michigan's chances this year, Rich Rodriguez, and much more. Our coverage begins at 7pm tonight.

***FUTURE PROGRAMMING INFO***

We are back in town and on the air again tomorrow night (FRIDAY) from 7-10pm. You can listen on 88.3 WCBN FM in Ann Arbor or online at WCBN.org. We will have a full preview of the upcoming Michigan football season, including the Michigan-Utah game on Saturday. Also, we have a SPECIAL GUEST scheduled to join us live from California at 7:20pm. Hint: a former SEC Football Head Coach. 

On SATURDAY, we will have LIVE coverage of the Michigan-Utah football game starting at 3pm. You can listen on the WCBN Sports Stream, available on wcbn.org and wcbnsports.com

Programming Schedule

Busy week for us as classes end and exams begin. Still, we are dedicated to bringing you Michigan sports, so here is what we have for this week.

Tuesday 4/15
Daily Sports Report 5:15pm
Baseball v Eastern Michigan 6:35pm


Wednesday 4/16
Daily Sports Report 5:15pm
Softball v Eastern Michigan 6pm

Thursday 4/17
Daily Sports Report 5:15pm

Friday 4/18
Game of the Week 7-10pm
We will be bringing you the Michigan baseball game against Michigan State live beginning at 7pm (you can hear the start of the game on the Sports Stream), followed by sports talk if time allows.

Saturday 4/19
Baseball at Michigan State (DH) 1:05pm

Sunday 4/20
Baseball v Michigan State 1:05pm

Weekend Programming Schedule

Here is the WCBN Schedule for this upcoming weekend:

Friday 4/5
Softball vs Iowa 4:05 PM: listen here
Extra Points 7-10 PM: listen here
We will be discussing the Ann Arbor news series on Academics and Athletics at U of M, along with some NCAA Final Four and Frozen Four coverage. You can IM us during this broadcast using the AIM screename WCBNSports883.
Saturday 4/6
Softball vs Iowa 12:00 PM: listen here
Sunday 4/7
Softball vs Iowa 12:00 PM: listen here
Softball vs Iowa approximately 2:00 PM listen here

We'll see if the weather cooperates and we get some softball in this weekend. I was just walking back from work and it seems to have been raining for awhile as it is extremely wet and muddy outside. Hopefully U of M invested in a tarp for Alumni Field, otherwise it's not looking good for tomorrow's game.

UPDATE: Michigan is set to play their home opener today at 4:05 and the weather forecast for tomorrow is 60 and sunny!