Fast Break with Bret Bakita

Final: Unity Christian 40 West Catholic 14. Bob Sack and Buck Geno on the call.

Bret Bakita and FOX 17 Sports Director Jason Hutton preview week 7 of High School Football in West Michigan.

Final: West Catholic 28 Coopersville 24. Bret Bakita and Buck Geno on the call.

Bret Bakita and Jason Hutton preview week 6 of High School Football in West Michigan.

Bret Bakita and Jason Hutton preview Week 5 of West Michigan High School Football.

Final Score: Catholic Central 28 South Christian 6. Bret Bakita and Buck Geno on the call.

Final: Caledonia 24 Grandville 14. Bret Bakita and Buck Geno on the call.

Bret Bakita and Jason Hutton preview week 3 of High School Football in West Michigan

Final Score: Unity Christian 58 Grand Rapids Christian 21. Bret Bakita and Buck Geno on the call.

Final: Forest Hills Central 29 Jenison 14.

Bret Bakita and FOX 17's Jason Hutton preview the first week of high school football in West Michigan.

It's our 2021 season preview of our Detroit Lions with a familiar voice to sports talk fans in West Michigan - Jim Costa, who is now hosting shows at 97.1 - The Ticket in Detroit and is the NEW studio host for the Detroit Lions Radio Network heard across the state of Michigan! For this episode, I caught up with Jim to get his thoughts on the Matthew Stafford blockbuster trade, the new draft picks...

It's Week 2 of our College Football Previews on the "Fast Break" podcast series, and in this episode, I sit down with Senior Editor of The Wolverine Magazine and thewolverine.com - Rivals site, John Borton, to preview the 2021 edition of the Wolverines under head coach Jim Harbaugh. This offseason saw some significant changes to Harbaugh's coaching staff and a lot of change to U-M's roster, especi...

This is the first of our college football preview episodes for the upcoming season! In this episode, we feature the Michigan State Spartans football team under head coach Mel Tucker, who is getting ready for his second season on the Spartans' sideline. Jim Comparoni, publisher of Spartanmag.com of the Rivals.com family, joins me to talk about Mel Tucker and the overhaul that he and his coaching st...

After 10 seasons in the NFL and a chance to play in the playoffs with Green Bay and MVP quarterback Aaron Rodgers, big Jared Veldheer is ready to hang up his cleats and enjoy life in West Michigan and some of his favorite hobbies! See what the former FHN and Hillsdale College alum has to say about his football career in the league and the different route through the GLIAC that he took to get there...

So the Detroit Pistons franchise went through a complete roster overhaul with new GM - Troy Weaver, and now the franchise has the #1 overall pick in the upcoming NBA Draft to work with too! In this episode of the "Fast Break" podcast series, I caught up with writer and editor for the Detroit Pistons franchise, Keith Langlois, to see what Detroit might do with the pick, and there was a recent sight...

Enhancing greater Grand Rapids through sports, and fostering economic development by attracting sporting events which improve the quality of life of the citizens of West Michigan! That has been the mission of the West Michigan Sports Commission since it was created 14 years ago and headed up by still current president, Mike Guswiler. Hundreds of events later and the creation of things like the ann...

It will be his 11th Olympic games that he has covered, even though this one will be quite different, and he has already waited an extra year to make the trip to Tokyo! This week we feature Jack Doles, sports director at WOOD-TV 8 on why covering the Olympics and the outstanding athletes from our state of Michigan has been so special to him over his career!! Plus, he previews this summer's games an...

A couple of weeks ago, Joe Fox, who played at Greenville High School, was announced as the next head men's basketball coach at Grand Rapids Community College! It is his first head coaching job after being a longtime college assistant with 3 different schools, but his journey and family background of basketball coaching are what make his story very interesting and unique!! Basketball junkies....you...