Atlanta's Star 94 and 790 The Zone Get Falcons Football

The NFL Atlanta Falcons have signed a four-year deal with Lincoln Financial Media to make “Sports Radio 790 The Zone” WQXI and hot AC “Star 94” WSTR its new radio flagship stations.  The games had been heard on CBS Radio’s adult alternative “92.9 Dave FM” WZGC.  Play-by-play announcer Wes Durham and color analyst and former Iowa State Cyclone Dave Archer will make the move as well.

As part of the agreement, both stations will simulcast all Falcons regular and pre-season games starting the fall 2011.   While it may be unusual for a pop music station to air football play by play, program director Scott Lindy sees it as a good fit.   “Falcons families are Star 94 families,” Lindy says.  “Our 100,000 watt reach, combined with the Falcons’ huge popularity, makes this a great move for both brands."

The agreement marks a homecoming of sorts for the Falcons. The franchise's first season in 1966 was broadcast on WQXI and WKXI-FM – which is today WSTR.   The relationship continued into the mid-1970s.

While CBS Radio lost the rights, its sister WGCL-TV remains the television home for the Falcons in Atlanta.   “Lincoln Financial Media and CBS Atlanta are solid media companies who are committed to providing Falcons fans with the most innovative, complete, and comprehensive coverage both from a radio and television prospective,” team president Rich McKay says.

11-year old Hits Half-Court Shot, Wins Pizza for a Year

Pizza party at the Collins'!

That is sure to be the case for the next year in Kennesaw, GA. 

Collins hit a half-court shot at halftime of Thursday's game at Kennesaw State, earning him complimentary pizza from Papa John's through next February.  No word on if he gets a year's supply of garlic dipping sauce as well.

Watch the video and the reaction from his buddy under the basket.  The kid knew it was in right away.

Congrats to Cody Collins.

One On One With the Wanamaker Trophy

The 2011 PGA Championship will be held at the Atlanta Athletic Club this August.  Festivities kicked off today with one the most famous trophies in sports, The Wanamaker Trophy on display today at the club.

The Wanamaker Trophy

The best golfers in the world will be onsite to try and win this trophy.  David Toms hoisted the trophy back in 2001 at the AAC.

Tiger Woods has won it four times and he'll be back to try and equal Jack Nicklaus with five PGA victories.

The course looks fantastic and the club is one of the top places to hold an event like this.

Margarine Truck Explodes and Ties Up Atlanta Traffic

The old commercial used to say that "everything is better with Blue Bonnet on it", referring to Blue Bonnet margarine.

Well, everything except for Atlanta highways that is.

Eastbound lanes of I-285 in Dekalb County reopened about 10:15 a.m. Tuesday, some 10 hours after a crash killed a wrong-way driver and caused a huge traffic mess on the northside Perimeter.

The wrongway driver hit a truck carrying margarine and it caught fire and burned for hours.  Some drivers were caught in the traffic backup all night.

Hazmat teams arrived on the scene trying to keep the mixture of 15,000 gallons of water used to put out the fire from the firehoses, and oil from the burned margarine from getting into the drainage system.

More Snow Coming to Atlanta?

A late-week low-pressure system will pump Gulf moisture into the Atlanta area Thursday night into Friday, and rain could change to a wintry mix of precipitation before ending early Friday.

The National Weather Service said the rain from the fast-moving system will likely change to all snow in the mountains, while a rain/snow mix is forecast for metro Atlanta.

But don't expect another major winter storm like we has last week, forecasters said.

"It being a rapidly moving system, the thought is that any snow accumulation will be light," the Weather Service said.

So a mix of precip and some flurries.  We can handle that after what we experienced last week.