Frank Beckmann, the play-by-play voice of Michigan football for 33 years who also had long stints calling games for the Detroit Lions and Detroit Tigers, has died at age 72 in hospice care. Beckmann ...

ANN ARBOR -- Frank Beckmann still remembers his first production meeting with Bob Ufer. Sitting in Madison on the eve of Michigan's 1981 season-opener at Wisconsin, Beckmann played the role of sponge ...

Frank Beckmann, a retired sports broadcaster and conservative talk show host who spent 48 years at WJR, is in hospice care and "entering the final stages" of life, his wife Karen Beckmann told Crain's ...

Frank Beckmann sits down with Central Michigan University Athletic Director Dave Heeke to discuss CMU football and also talks with NBC golf analyst Jimmy Roberts. Kevin O'Brien, General Manager of the ...

ANN ARBOR -- Frank Beckmann has been the voice of Michigan football for 33 years. The 2013 season will be his last. Michigan, and IMG College, announced Friday that Beckmann -- who took over Michigan ...

Gift Article 10 Remaining As a subscriber, you have 10 articles to gift each month. Gifting allows recipients to access the article for free. Sports broadcaster and conservative talk show host Frank ...

Longtime WJR-AM radio host and University of Michigan football play-by-play man Frank Beckmann is in critical condition at an Oakland County hospice facility, his family said Friday. Karen Beckmann, ...

The voice of Michigan football should stick to calling play-by-play. Frank Beckmann, the Wolverines' radio broadcaster for more than three decades, has apologized and was condemned by the university ...

. So credit the Republicans for leveraging that dissatisfaction to their advantage in the midterm campaign. But there is a difference between a generic health care reform opponent and Frank Beckmann.