subtitle: Why I love the Red Berenson show. Here’s a mere couple minutes from the opening segment of the WTKA 1050AM broadcast of last week’s show. Red talks about the bones he’s broken during his career, then tells a story from the late 1960s when he was sewn up by a poker-playing, cigar-smoking, pistol-wielding doctor. Awesome: [display_podcast] Check out all of the WTKA Podcasts here Follow MVictors on Twitter
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Red Berenson Ain’t Riding | Michigan Hockey’s Cold Night in the Soo
With Lake Superior State in town this weekend I thought I’d share some audio from my interview last fall with former Michigan hockey player and coach Dave Shand. This was published in the third segment of the interview, which was conducted over drinks at the great Mac’s Acadian restaurant in downtown Saline. I just made a comment about how Rich Rod hates to lose and this prompts Shand to go into a story about the night they lost 10-5 to Lake Superior State up in Sault Ste Marie in November 1990. Amazing story: MVictors: Sticking on the topic of coaches, we still don’t know a whole lot about Rodriguez but we know he really doesn’t like to lose. I think he cited it as a reason he didn’t want to film Michigan Replay after games (in case they lost). Shand: You haven’t seen fuckin’ Red after a loss. There’s actually a story in John Bacon’s book Blue Ice. We’re up in Sault Ste Marie, and we’re playing Lake [Superior] State. I think the previous 27 times we’d played them we beat them twice. This was 90-91. Lake State was defending national champions. They were big, physical and they’d bang the shit out of you, especially in their own building. I think we lost 10-5. It’s just Red and I up…
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Shand Uncensored: Part III, Coach Red and the Fab Five
Continuing the interview with Dave Shand. on, the future of the hockey program, and get some of Shand's thoughts on Steve Fisher and how the University handled the Ed Martin mess.