Michigan football program takes over WTKA-AM on Friday for fundraiser
Ready for an entire day of Michigan football talk in mid May? The annual Mott Takeover on Friday is on WTKA-AM (1050) and is part of the three-day Griese/Hutchinson/Woodson Champions for Children’s Hearts Weekend.
The 12-hour radio fundraiser starts at 6 a.m. Friday, and the first guests arrive at 7 a.m. when former Michigan coach Lloyd Carr and former kicker Jay Feely are in the studio.
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Any donation is welcome during the radiothon, and donors who contribute any amount from $20 to more than $500 will receive gifts. To make a donation, call 800-559-2657 or go online at wtka.com or mottchildren.org.
Funds will go toward The Charles Woodson Clinical Research Fund, which supports research at C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital. The entire Griese/Hutchinson/Woodson weekend raised more than $1 million last year.
The giveaways for donating:
$20: Fathead Teammate Block M
$50: Limited-edition Charles Woodson T-shirt
$120: Fathead Junior Big House Mural autographed by Charles Woodson
$250: Four passes to a preseason scrimmage
$500: Two pre-game sideline passes - not game tickets - to one of four games: Western Michigan, Eastern Michigan, San Diego State or Minnesota.
The radio lineup:
7 a.m.: Lloyd Carr, Jay Feely
8 a.m.: Charles Woodson
9 a.m.: Brian Griese
10 a.m.: Steve Hutchinson, Glen Steele, Steve Everitt, Jeff Backus, Jon Jansen
11 a.m.: Gary Moeller, Al Borges
Noon: Jake Long, Chad Henne
1 p.m.: Marlin Jackson, Amani Toomer, Scott Dreisbach, Jarrett Irons
2 p.m.: Leon Hall, Morgan Trent, Mike Hart, Lamar Woodley
3 p.m.: Mark Campbell, Jerame Tuman, Aaron Shea, Remy Hamilton
4 p.m.: Greg Mattison
5 p.m.: David Brandon, Brady Hoke
Comments
Jack
Fri, May 13, 2011 : 12:15 a.m.
I hope people consider making a donation. Congenital Heart Defects is the most frequently occurring birth defect, and is the leading cause of birth-defect related deaths. For every dollar provided by the national medical funding arm of the American government, the National Institute of Health (NIH), only one penny is provided for pediatric research, and only a portion of that penny goes to support research on heart defects, the most common birth defect (Children's Heart Foundation).