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The Zone 2/7/18

Prep Basketball Playoff Preview… Western Wednesday… and Jason Stiles of Root Sports

The Zone 2/6/18

Former Ferndale High School football coach Vic Randall joins us to tell stories about his old quarterback Doug Pederson, now the Super Bowl winning coach of the Philadelphia Eagles…and we hear from all the high school basketball coaches on the radio tonight and WWU men’s coach Tony Dominguez getting ready for Simon Fraser tonight.
Sporting News
Trivia Tuesday with prizes from our sponsor Westside Pizza

The Zone 2/5/18

Mark loves that Ferndale native Doug Pederson coached the Eagles to the Super Bowl title yesterday and we hear some of the coach’s comments…and we’re joined by Jared Dubin from CBS Sports for more Super Bowl talk.
Sporting News
Big Dumb Game

The Zone 2/2/18

Mark starts off confessing his love for a female competitive eater who put away 501 wings…we hear from the coaches previewing tonight’s high school basketball games on the radio…and we unveil our Friday Funday songs.
Gregg Bell from the News Tribune of Tacoma joins us for a little Super Bowl talk.
Big Dumb Game

The Zone 2-1-2018

The Western Vikings men’s basketball team plays at arch-rival Central Washington tonight, and Mark talks to Coach Tony Dominguez about it… Eagles Coach Doug Pederson, out of Ferndale, addressed the media at Super Bowl LII today and we hear from him… and Commissioner Roger Goodell had his State of the League address yesterday and we hit the high points.
Sporting news
Big Dumb Game

The Zone 1/30/18

1.Mark previews are prep game tonight as we hear from Lynden coach Brian Roper and Mt Baker coach Rob Gray…and we hit the high points of last night’s Super Bowl Media Day now called “Opening Night.”

2.Sporting News

3.Trivia Tuesday with prizes from our sponsor Westside Pizza

The Zone 1/29/18

Mark admits to being a little bit giddy about Vancouver Canucks rookie Brock Boeser winning the NHL All-Star Game MVP Award…and Patrick Johnson from the Vancouver Sun joins us to gush a little more about Brock Boeser.
Sporting News
The Big Dumb Game

The Zone 1/26/18

1. Mark previews tonight’s Bellingham-Sehome doubleheader on KPUG, as we hear from all four coaches… and we break out our Friday Funday songs with a Rocky movie theme in honor of Bellingham Sehome Night.
2. Sporting News
3. Big Dumb Game

The Zone 1/25/18

The Seattle Mariners Winter Caravan stopped by KPUG yesterday. We hear first from the voice of the M’s Rick Rizzs. Also from the Caravan we play back our conversations with outfield prospect Kyle Lewis, broadcaster Dave Valle and relief pitcher James Pazos.
Big Dumb Game

The Zone 1/24/18

Western Men’s Basketball Coach Tony Dominguez joined The Zone to preview Thursday night’s matchup against Saint Martin’s, Mark reads you the Sporting News O’ the Day and there was a WWU Men’s Basketball ticket giveaway with Big Dumb Game.

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