Football is Back and Mixlr is the Home for All of It

Football is Back and Mixlr is the Home for All of It

USRN and the Mixlr family of networks that includes USRN2, Wellington Sports Radio, and IE Sports Radio will once again be your online home for all things football, both professionally and collegiately. As the NFL and College Football kickoff once again with so much uncertainty, both on and off the field, as always it promises to be another dynamic and dramatic year of America’s favorite sport. As was the case last year, our networks will once again provide live play-by-play action of every NFL primetime game with every Thursday Night and Monday Night Football game live on USRN while Sunday Night games will rotate between USRN and WSR. Along with primetime coverage, USRN and WSR will have Sunday afternoon coverage in the first two weeks of the year and every week from Week 10 to the end of the new 18-week regular season. And you can get your NFL Sunday started each Sunday with the “USRN NFL Kickoff” Show at 12:30pm leading you right up to kickoff of the 1:00 games in all eighteen weeks of the season. Mixlr's coverage of the first week of the NFL season will feature the defending Super Bowl champion Tampa Bay Buccaneers opening up the year against the Dallas Cowboys as Tom Brady faces off with Dak Prescott who makes his much anticipated return after injury last year. Six teams that made the NFL Playoffs last season are featured in Mixlr's Week One coverage with two matching up in a Playoff rematch as the Browns and Chiefs square off in Kansas City. Earlier that day, the number two overall pick Zach Wilson makes his NFL debut quarterbacking the New York Jets in a game where the Jets will face their former shot caller, Sam Darnold, as he makes his Carolina Panther debut. On Wellington Sports Radio, Teddy Bridgewater will make his debut with the Denver Broncos as they take on the New York Giants who enter the season with high expectations. The first Sunday of the season will finish with yet another quarterback debut as Matthew Stafford leads the Rams into battle against the Chicago Bears. Meanwhile on the College Football side, our family of networks will give you a multitude of games every Saturday including the newly branded “USRN College Football Showcase”, “USRN2 Game of the Week”, “USRN Saturday Night Football”, “USRN After Dark”, “WSR College Football” specials plus “USRN College Football Primetime” specials on Thursday and Friday nights. Week One of the College Football season on USRN, USRN2 and WSR will feature twelve teams ranked in the preseason Top 25 AP Poll, six of which are ranked inside the top-ten and four matchups featuring two ranked teams squaring off.

 

USRN and WSR announcers for NFL and College Football coverage will continue to be [in alphabetical order] Collins Janus, Ethan Carter, Matthew Owens, Pierre Moss, Seth Eaves and Teran Rodriguez. Matthew Owens will once again return as the voice of Thursday Night Football starting with the NFL Kickoff Game featuring the defending Super Bowl champion Buccaneers hosting Dak Prescott and the Cowboys. Meanwhile, Seth Eaves will return for his fourth season calling Monday Night Football games on USRN beginning with Lamar Jackson and the Ravens heading west to Las Vegas to take on the Raiders.

 

Mixlr College Football/NFL Schedule (8/28 to 9/16)

 

***All Times Eastern

 

Saturday, August 28^th

Alcorn State vs. North Carolina Central (in Atlanta)

7:00pm on IE Sports Radio with Pierre Moss

Thursday, September 2^nd

USRN College Football Primetime – #4 Ohio State at Minnesota

8:00pm on USRN with Matthew Owens

Friday, September 3^rd

USRN College Football Primetime – #10 North Carolina at Virginia Tech

6:00pm on USRN with Matthew Owens

WSR College Football – Michigan State at Northwestern

9:00pm on WSR with Teran Rodriguez

Saturday, September 4^th

WSR College Football – #19 Penn State at #12 Wisconsin

12:00pm on WSR with Pierre Moss

USRN2 Game of the Week – #1 Alabama vs. #14 Miami (in Atlanta)

3:30pm on USRN2 with TBD

USRN College Football Showcase – #17 Indiana at #18 Iowa

3:30pm on USRN with Seth Eaves

USRN Saturday Night Football – #3 Clemson vs. #5 Georgia (in Charlotte)

7:30pm on USRN with Matthew Owens

WSR College Football – #16 LSU at UCLA

8:30pm on WSR with TBD

Sunday, September 5^th

WSR College Football – #9 Notre Dame at Florida State

7:30pm on WSR with Pierre Moss

Monday, September 6^th

USRN College Football Primetime – Louisville vs. Ole Miss (in Atlanta)

8:00pm on USRN with TBD

Thursday, September 9^th

NFL Kickoff on Thursday Night Football – Cowboys at Buccaneers

7:30pm on USRN with Matthew Owens & Seth Eaves

Saturday, September 11^th

USRN College Football Showcase – #4 Ohio State at #11 Oregon

12:00pm on USRN with Matthew Owens

USRN2 Game of the Week – Air Force at Navy

3:30pm on USRN2 with TBD

WSR College Football – #18 Iowa at #7 Iowa State

4:30pm on WSR with Pierre Moss

USRN Saturday Night Football – #21 Texas at Arkansas

7:30pm on USRN2 with TBD

USRN College Football After Dark – #24 Utah at BYU

10:15pm on TBD with Seth Eaves  

Sunday, September 12^th

USRN NFL Kickoff Pregame

12:30pm on USRN with Matthew Owens & Seth Eaves

Jets at Panthers

1:00pm on USRN with Seth Eaves

Browns at Chiefs

4:15pm on USRN with Matthew Owens

Broncos at Giants

4:15pm on WSR with Pierre Moss

Sunday Night Football – Bears at Rams

8:00pm on USRN with Teran Rodriguez

Monday, September 13^th

Monday Night Football – Ravens at Raiders

8:00pm on USRN with Seth Eaves

Thursday, September 16^th

Thursday Night Football – Giants at Washington

8:00pm on USRN with Matthew Owens

Day 10 at the 2020 Olympics on Mixlr

 ***All Times Eastern

Sunday, August 1st

Women's Beach Volleyball Round of 16 - United States (Alix/April) vs. Cuba (Lidy/Leila)

8:00pm on USRN with Matthew Owens

Women's Field Hockey Quarterfinal - Germany vs. Argentina

8:30pm on USRN2 with Seth Eaves

Women's Beach Volleyball Round of 16 - Canada (Pavan/Melissa) vs. Spain (Liliana/Elsa)

9:00pm on USRN with Matthew Owens

Women's Volleyball Preliminary Phase - United States vs. Italy

10:00pm on USRN with Teran Rodriguez

Women's Field Hockey Quarterfinal - Australia vs. India

11:00pm on USRN2 with Seth Eaves

Monday, August 2nd

Women's Soccer Semifinal - United States vs. Canada

4:00am on USRN with Matthew Owens & Seth Eaves

Track & Field - Women's 5,000m 

8:45am on USRN with Seth Eaves 

Days 7 & 8 at the 2020 Olympics on Mixlr

 ***All Times Eastern

Thursday, July 29th

Women's Volleyball Preliminary Phase: United States vs. Turkey

8:00am on USRN with Teran Rodriguez 

Women's Beach Volleyball Preliminary Phase: United States (Alix/April) vs. Netherlands (Keizer/Meppelink)

8:00pm on WSR with Matthew Owens

Rowing: Women's & Men's Single Sculls Finals

8:30pm on USRN with Seth Eaves

Swimming: Women's 200m Breaststroke, Men's 200m Backstroke, Women's 100m Freestyle & Men's 200 IM Finals

9:30pm on USRN with Matthew Owens

Friday, July 30th

Women's Soccer Quarterfinal - Great Britain vs. Australia

5:00am on USRN2 with Seth Eaves

Women's Soccer Quarterfinal - United States vs. Netherlands

7:00am on USRN2 with Matthew Owens

Track & Field - Men's 10,000m Final

7:30am on USRN with Seth Eaves

Swimming: Women's 100m Butterfly, Women's 200m Backstroke & Women's 800m Freestyle Finals

9:30pm on USRN with Matthew Owens

Women's Volleyball Preliminary Phase: United States vs. ROC 

10:00pm on USRN2 with Teran Rodriguez 

Days 5 & 6 at the 2020 Olympics on Mixlr

It's a been an extremely fun start to the 2020 Olympic Games on our Mixlr Family of Networks and it's only building to more exciting moments over the next two weeks. Here's your primer of what's happening, when it's happening and where it's happening in Days Five thru Eight in Tokyo. 

***All Times Eastern

Tuesday, July 27th

Women's Basketball Preliminary Round: United States vs. Nigeria

12:30am on USRN with Seth Eaves

Women's Soccer Group Play: United States vs. Australia 

4:00am on USRN2 with Matthew Owens

Softball Gold Medal Match: United States vs. Japan

7:00am on USRN with Seth Eaves 

Men's Beach Volleyball Preliminary Phase: United States (Gibb/Bourne) vs. Switzerland (Heidrich/Gerson)

8:00pm on USRN2 with Matthew Owens

Rowing: Women's Double Sculls, Men's Double Sculls, Women's Four, Men's Four, Men's Quadruple Sculls & Women's Quadruple Sculls Finals

8:00pm on USRN with Seth Eaves

Swimming: Women's 200m Freestyle, Women's 200m Butterfly, Women's 200m IM & Women's 1,500m Freestyle Finals

10:00pm on USRN with Matthew Owens

Men's Volleyball Group Phase: United States vs. Tunisia

10:00pm on WSR with Teran Rodriguez

Wednesday, July 28th

Men's Basketball Preliminary Round: United States vs. Iran

12:40am on USRN2 with Matthew Owens

Men's Beach Volleyball Preliminary Phase: Norway (Bol/Sorum) vs. ROC (Leshukov/Semenov)

9:00am on WSR with Matthew Owens

Rowing: Men's Pair, Women's Pair, Men's Lightweight Double Sculls & Women's Leightweight Double Sculls Finals

8:15pm on USRN with Seth Eaves 

Swimming: Men's 800m Freestyle, Men's 200m Breaststroke, Women's 200m Butterfly & Men's 100m Freestyle Finals

9:30pm on USRN with Matthew Owens

Days 1-4 at the 2020 Olympics on Mixlr

With the Opening Ceremony officially opening the Games of the 32nd Olympiad in Tokyo, here's how a jam packed first four days of the Games will look on our Mixlr family of networks.

***All Times Eastern

Friday, July 23rd

Softball Opening Round: Canada vs. Australia

9:00pm on USRN with Seth Eaves 

Women's Beach Volleyball Preliminary Phase: Brazil (Agatha/Duda) vs. Argentina (Gallay/Pereyra)

10:00pm on USRN2 with Matthew Owens

Women's Beach Volleyball Preliminary Phase: Canada (Pavan/Melissa) vs. Netherlands (Stam/Schoon)

11:00pm on USRN2 with Matthew Owens

Saturday, July 24th

Softball Opening Round: Australia vs. United States

9:00pm on USRN2 with Seth Eaves

Swimming: Men's 400m IM Final & Men's 400m Freestyle Final

9:30pm on USRN with Matthew Owens

Women's Beach Volleyball Preliminary Phase: United States (Alix/April) vs. China (Xue/Wang)

10:00pm on USRN with Matthew Owens

Women's Volleyball Group Phase: United States vs. Argentina

10:00pm on WSR with Teran Rodriguez

Sunday, July 25th

Men's Basketball Preliminary Round: United States vs. France

8:00am on USRN with Matthew Owens

Softball Opening Round: Japan vs. United States

9:00pm on USRN with Seth Eaves

Swimming: Women's 100m Butterfly, Men's 100m Breaststroke, Women's 100m Freestyle Finals

9:30pm on USRN2 with Matthew Owens

Men's Volleyball Group Phase: United States vs. ROC 

10:00pm on WSR with Teran Rodriguez 

Women's Beach Volleyball Preliminary Phase: Canada (Pavan/Melissa) vs. Germany (Borger/Sude)

11:00pm on USRN2 with Matthew Owens

Monday, July 26th

Men's Basketball Preliminary Round: Argentina vs. Slovenia

12:30am on WSR with Matthew Owens

Women's Field Hockey Pool Play: Germany vs. India

8:15am on WSR with Seth Eaves 

Men's Beach Volleyball Preliminary Phase: Norway (Bol/Sorum) vs. Spain (Herrera/Gavira)

9:00am on USRN with Matthew Owens

Women's Beach Volleyball Preliminary Phase: United States (Alix/April) vs. Spain (Liliana/Elsa)

8:00pm on USRN with Matthew Owens

Swimming: Men's 200m Freestyle & Women's 100m Backstroke Finals

9:30pm on WSR with Pierre Moss

Men's Beach Volleyball Preliminary Phase: United States (Lucena/Dalhauseer) vs. Brazil (Alison/Alvaro Filho)

10:00pm on USRN with Matthew Owens 

The Games of the 2020 Olympics on Mixlr

For the first time ever, USRN and our family of Mixlr networks will give you coverage of the Olympic Games. It's been a long and arduous climb to get to this point to Olympians across the world and we continue to hope that these Olympic Games will go as smoothly as possible in Tokyo. There will be a lot different about these Games of course with no fans in attendance, but it still will have all the meaning and importance of past Games. For us on our family of networks, we will have coverage on USRN, USRN2, Wellington Sports Radio and IE Sports Radio. Here is how the first few days will look on our networks. 

 

Tuesday, July 20th

Softball Opening Round: Japan vs. Australia

8:00pm on USRN with Matthew Owens

Softball Opening Round: United States vs. Italy

11:00pm on USRN with Seth Eaves

Wednesday, July 21st

Women's Soccer Group Stage: United States vs. Sweden

4:30am on USRN with Matthew Owens

Softball Opening Round: United States vs. Canada

8:00pm on USRN with Matthew Owens

Softball Opening Round: Mexico vs. Japan

11:00pm on USRN with Seth Eaves 

Thursday, July 22nd

Men's Soccer Group Stage: Mexico vs. France

4:00am on USRN2 with TBD

Men's Soccer Group Stage: Brazil vs. Germany

7:30am on WSR with Matthew Owens

Friday, July 23rd

Women's Water Polo Preliminary Round: United States vs. Japan

1:00am on USRN2 with Teran Rodriguez

Opening Ceremony

7:00am on USRN with Matthew Owens

Softball Opening Round: Australia vs. Canada

9:00pm on USRN with Seth Eaves

Women's Beach Volleyball Preliminary Phase: Brazil (Agatha/Duda) vs. Argentina (Gallay/Pereyra)

10:00pm on USRN2 with Matthew Owens

Women's Beach Volleyball Preliminary Phase: Canada (Pavan/Melissa) vs. Netherlands (Stam/Schoon) 

11:00pm on USRN2 with Matthew Owens

100 Greatest Moments in Indianapolis 500 History - #97

 #97 – Jules Goux Pops Champagne on the Way to Victory

Something that has always made the Indianapolis 500 so special is that uniquely American. From the racing itself, to the patriotism shown before the race all the way to the end with traditions that only Americans could think of. But something that also makes it special is the international flare it always has. But in the first two runnings of the Indianapolis 500, of the 64 total entries, only six were non-Americans. For the 1913 event, they matched that number with six European-born drivers coming over the race. Jack Tower set the fastest speed in qualifying, but the field was set by a blind draw giving Caleb Bragg the pole position and forcing Tower to start from twenty-fifth in what was expected to be a wide-open race. While trying to weave through traffic and get the front, Tower lost control of his car just past lap fifty and the car flipped over resulting in a broken leg for Tower and broken ribs for his mechanic Lee Dunning. Shortly thereafter, early leader Bob Burman’s car burst into flames and put him out of contention. French driver Jules Goux grabbed the lead and did battle with Bob Evans for most of the middle part of the race. Now, when you think of drinks at the Indy 500, milk is clearly what everyone thinks of. But that’s a tradition that didn’t start for a couple more decades. What about champagne? That may not be what you think of, but that’s what Goux thought of as something to boost his performance. As the drivers came down pit road for scheduled pit stops, Goux would drink bottles, yes, bottles, of champagne. Now, for the number of bottles that he drank, we’re a bit unsure of. Some people that tell the story say that it was as many as six. Clearly, whether it was the champagne or something else, something worked really well, because after Bob Evans’ car failed, Goux was gone. He took an enormous lead that he would not give up and went on to win the race by more than thirteen minutes as he became the first non-American winner of the Indianapolis 500. So that’s the story of the winner of the 1913 Indianapolis, but that doesn’t fully complete the story of this race. Why? Well, back in those wonderful days, only the top-ten finishers received prize money. Oh, and by the way, the race wasn’t over when the winner took the checkered flag. The rest of the top-ten finishers had to complete the 500-miles no matter how many laps/miles they were behind. And because of that, it led to a wild ending in a tight battle for second between Charlie Merz and Spencer Wishart. As the two started their final lap, Merz’s car caught on fire. But do you think that would stop bad ass Charlie Merz from getting his money? Heck no! Merz kept driving the flaming car around the track on the final lap. And that’s not all! Merz’s riding mechanic, Harry Martin, decided he would exit his seat in the car and crawl onto the hood of this MOVING car and attempt to beat out the flames. The crowd, as you would imagine, were amazed at what they were seeing before their eyes. Merz coasted home to finish third and receive the $5,165 prize money. And all I have to say about this race is this: the winner of this race drank champagne throughout the whole thing, a driver completed the last lap on fire while his riding mechanic crawled to the hood of the moving car to preserve the prize money… let’s just say, it was a different time.