Digital Managing Editor, Townsquare Media Grand Rapids
Rick Martinez
Today is Selection Sunday for NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Tournament
Today is Selection Sunday for the NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament.
Something you should know: Michigan, Michigan State and Western Michigan are all going to be in the 68-team field.
CBS Sports airs the pairings for the NCAA Tournament at 6 p.m. EST today with its "Selection Sunday" special.
Townsquare Media Buys Kalamazoo Ribfest
Townsquare Media announced today it has reached an agreement to acquire Kalamazoo Ribfest from The Arc Community Advocates.
As part of the deal, Townsquare Media also inked a long-term partnership with The Arc to produce the event on an annual basis.
The Arc Community Advocates, a non-profit focused on helping people with intellectual and development disabilities, has operated Ribfest for the pa
Enter the Million Dollar Bracket Challenge!
It’s time to dust off that crystal ball of college basketball prognostication.
This year, 63 intense games will fill up those major college basketball championship tournament brackets. It's your job to figure out who wins each game.
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Grand Rapids’ Omar Bermejo Competes for U.S. in Sochi Paralympic Winter Games [Video]
Omar Bermejo believes.
He believes he can overcome. He believes in himself.
That steadfastness and determination has brought the 31-year-old former Marine to surmount an amputation of part of a severed arm suffered in a June 2009 motorcycle accident. It has the Grand Rapids resident at the pinnacle competing representing the U.S. in two disciplines at the Sochi Paralympic Winter Games in Russia.
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Free Beer & Hot Wings: Paula Creamer Sinks 75-Foot Eagle Putt to Win LPGA Tournament [Video]
Golf. It is the most frustrating sport known to man.
Trying to hit that little ball hundreds of yards into a hole that's only slightly larger? Impossible.
Free Beer & Hot Wings: Music Friday Songs (On Saturday) [Audio]
Each Friday, we here at “The Free Beer & Hot Wings Morning Show” replace our regular “back-with” music with songs from our own music collection.
They can be anything, from corny mash-ups, rock, country, mid-Michigan '70s butt rock or anything in between.
Here’s the list of Music Friday songs from this week:
Free Beer & Hot Wings: Joe Rogan Talks Jiu Jitsu, Brain Damage and Sensory Deprivation Tanks
Comedian, actor, writer and MMA commentator Joe Rogan joined us on "The Free Beer & Hot Wings Morning Show" once again this morning to promote his latest comedy special, "Live from the Tabernacle," which premieres Friday at midnight on his website.
We also got on the topic of Joe’s jiu-jitsu past, as well as sensory deprivation tanks, of all things!
WZZM-13: Jury Finds Eric Knysz Guilty of Killing State Trooper Paul Butterfield
A Mason County Circuit Court jury of nine women and three men has found Eric Knysz guilty of murder in Michigan State Police Trooper Paul Butterfield's death last September at a gas station.
Knysz was found guilty Tuesday afternoon of four counts: the murder of a peace officer, stealing a car, and two weapons charges, our news partner WZZM-13 reports.
Free Beer & Hot Wings: 96-Year-Old Man Finds Dead Rat in His Birthday Cake [Video]
Ninety-six-year-old Joe Valente wanted nothing more than his favorite cake for his birthday: German apple ring cake from King Kullen Supermarket in Suffolk County, N.Y.
Free Beer & Hot Wings: Most Meaningless Story About Chainsaws (Ever) [Video]
This news story from Augusta, Ga., may be the most meaningless news "story" we've seen yet.
Free Beer & Hot Wings: Music Friday Songs (On Saturday) [Audio]
Each Friday, we here at “The Free Beer & Hot Wings Morning Show” replace our regular “back-with” music with songs from our own music collection.
They can be anything, from corny mash-ups, rock, country, mid-Michigan '70s butt rock or anything in between.
Here’s the list of Music Friday songs from this week:
Winter Olympics: Team Fry Roots on U.S. Women’s Hockey and its Favorite Player
By Hayli Goode | BSU at the Games
Wesley Fry walked into his family’s Chandler, Ariz., living room on Christmas Eve dressed as Santa Claus.
His sister, Lyndsey, who pretended to be the elf passing out gifts, followed him.
The annual family skit was going as usual, but then came the deviation. Lyndsey decided to use the skit to surprise her family with some big news.
From Santa’s bag, she pulled ou