Sports
WZZM started expanded coverage of high school football in 1995 with Friday Night Football. A few years later, the name was changed to 13 On Your Sidelines.
In June 2010, WZZM hired back Brent Ashcroft, who had left the station twelve years prior to become Sports Director of FOX 17 WXMI.
During the 5:30 and 6:00 p.m. newscasts, a meteorologist does a weather report from the "Game of the Week" location with Blinkie the Weatherball mascot. During the 6:00 p.m. newscast, the "Game of the Week" is previewed.
The 11:00 p.m. newscast is shortened to one news segment and one weather segment. During the weather segment, cheerleaders join the meteorologist on the weather deck.
The current format for 13 On Your Sidelines is:
- "Game of the Week"
- Reports on 12 other games, giving a total of 13.
- The in-studio audience is composed of cheerleaders and marching bands.
- Scoreboard segments announcing the results of all other games.
- Commentary on the 13 games.
- Ticker showing scores from all sports, not just high school football.
- Other sports news.
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Famous quotes containing the word sports:
“Guys do not have a genetic blueprint that allows them to understand or love sports.”
—Lesley Visser, U.S. sports reporter and announcer. As quoted in Sports Illustrated, p. 82 (June 17, 1991)
“Reading about ethics is about as likely to improve one’s behavior as reading about sports is to make one into an athlete.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“There be some sports are painful, and their labor
Delight in them sets off. Some kinds of baseness
Are nobly undergone, and most poor matters
Point to rich ends.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)