Michigan Baseball Foundation Enterprises has rebranded WLUN-FM as Sports Radio 100.9 The Mitt through a partnership with FOX Sports Radio.

The new station features a morning show from the Michigan Sports Network titled X’s and BrO’s with Anthony Bellino, along with a local evening program called The Payoff. Afternoons also feature The Huge Show with host Bill Simonson from 3 to 6 p.m., marking a new era for the station that was previously associated with ESPN Radio.

In addition to syndicated national programs, including The Dan Patrick Show and The Herd with Colin Cowherd, listeners will be able to tune into live sporting events including the NFL on Westwood One, Great Lakes Loons baseball, Michigan State football and basketball, and local high school sporting events.

Brad Tunney has been named the general manager of the station. Tunney has been with the entity since 2015 as a member of the Loons broadcast team.

“Our area has such great sports fans and we wanted to recommit ourselves to them,” he said in a statement. “FOX is a perfect partner for us to get national favorites like Dan and Colin on the air between a local lineup of seven hours of local talk. I’m really excited for our listeners to also re-gain a live local show in The Payoff that they can interact with and lean on for great local sports coverage.”

Despite the new position, Tunney will continue to be on the call for the games along with John Vicari delivering the play-by-play. Vicari will also be commentating on most of the high school sports coverage on 100.9 The Mitt while serving as the broadcast and content coordinator for the outlet. Rich Juday will continue in his role as the director of sales complete with a new slate of on-air and off-air offerings.

Three months after joining forces in middays, Sactown Sports 1140AM hosts Kevin “Whitey” Gleason and Chris Watkins are being split up to complete the station’s daytime lineup.

Effective Wednesday, The Drive Guys featuring Gleason and Sacramento Kings studio host Kyle Draper take over afternoon drive from 2-6 PM. Watkins remains in middays. He had been hosting the Chris Watkins & Co Show in a fill-in capacity from 10:00 AM-2:00 PM since April.

“We are excited to continue to elevate the Sactown Sports brand with the addition of The Drive Guys,” Bonneville Sacramento SVP and market manager Steve Cottingim said. “Kevin has been a fabric in the Sacramento community for four decades now and pairing him with Kyle Draper, who is a familiar voice to our listeners through the Sacramento Kings broadcast, just highlights our commitment to Sacramento sports.”

Gleason confirmed the move on Monday evening, and Watkins chimed in expressing his thanks to Kevin for all he had done the past few months. Watkins joined Bonneville Sacramento in 2018 and went from assistant promotions director to producer and podcast host to midday host in a five-year span.

The full daytime lineup for Sactown Sports begins at 6 AM with The Carmichael Dave Show with Jason Ross and concludes with Gleason and Draper.

Gleason is no stranger to Sacramento listeners. He has been regularly featured on the air in town for more than four decades, primarily as a part of The Rise Guys morning show from 1999-2011. He also hosted on ESPN 1320 for five years with Mark Kreidler.

Draper has been hosting for NBC Sports California’s Kings coverage since 2020. Before arriving to California’s capital city, he served in a similar capacity for NBC Sports Boston for 11 years.

The Sactown Sports 1140AM lineup has gone through a few changes in 2023. Dave “Deuce” Morgan and Morgan Ragan left in April. Nick Cattles and Ramie Makhlouf followed over the summer. Sactown Sports is hoping Gleason and Draper can add stability and a drive time show that local fans enjoy tuning in for.

If you think the discussion on Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce is going away in sports talk anytime soon, you’re sorely mistaken. Swift was in attendance at MetLife Stadium for Sunday Night Football as Kelce and the Chiefs took on the New York Jets. And as Shan Shariff and RJ Choppy noted on Shan & RJ on 105.3 The Fan on Monday, NBC and the NFL couldn’t avoid making Swift’s presence at the game a part of the SNF coverage.

“They went all in,” Shariff said. “NBC, the National Football League, going all in on Taylor Swift.”

Choppy responded saying when arguably one of the biggest celebrities in the world suddenly takes an interest in your product, you embrace it.

“She’s taken over, she really has,” Choppy said. “And the NFL putting her on their Twitter page, I mean she is bigger than the NFL. Like she’s more popular globally than the National Football League.”

Taylor Swift sports 273 million Instagram followers and 94.5 million Twitter followers. The NFL only has 33.7 million followers on Twitter and 28.4 million on Instagram.

Shariff pointed out that while Swift is a massive superstar with a massive superstar following on social media, it doesn’t compare to the followings of soccer stars Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo.

Regardless, the NFL is going to milk it for what the league thinks it’s worth.

“Everyone is looking at her as the golden goose. She craps success,” Shariff said. “It’s just gold flowing out of her veins. Attach yourself to it, and you will make money.”