Frank Beckmann, longtime WJR broadcaster, dead at 72 | Crain's Detroit Business
He was a mainstay on WJR for nearly half a century and the voice behind the microphone of University of Michigan football games for three decades.
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He was a mainstay on WJR for nearly half a century and the voice behind the microphone of University of Michigan football games for three decades.
Frank Beckmann, a retired sports broadcaster and conservative talk show host who spent 48 years at WJR, is in hospice care and "entering the final stages" of life, his wife Karen Beckmann told Crain's.Beckmann, 72, is suffering from vascular dementia, she said. "It just progressed really, really…
The Wolverines battered and bullied their rivals on Saturday in Ann Arbor. Jim Harbaugh and his team had plenty to say after the deed was done too.
We have not had a press conference transcript posted since Adam posted pressers from the Peach Bowl in 2019. I always loved reading the postgame pressers on mgoblog, so I decided to write these up myself. Keep in mind I wasn't in the room or anything, so many of the questions I couldn't hear or understand. I tried to give context where I could when I couldn't catch everything in a question. If anyone gets a better read on what's said than me, drop a comment and maybe a mod can make edits?
The traditional Pre-Ohio State game Gravewalk will be tomorrow Tuesday 11/22. Meet at 6:00 pm at the fountain next to Burton Bell Tower and then the group will walk to Forest Hill Cemetery on Observatory to visit the final resting places of Bo Schembechler, Fielding Yost and Bob Ufer. It is tradition to bring flowers or any other tokens to leave at their graves.