Bob "Wojo" Wojnowski is an American reporter and

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for ''

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'' and host of a radio show on

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. Wojnowski also appears often on Fox 2

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's ''Sunday Night Sports Works'' roundtable. Wojnowski previously co-hosted the ''Stoney and Wojo'' radio show on

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. Along with co-host Mike Stone, the ''Stoney and Wojo'' show had been a consistent ratings leader for years in the Detroit afternoon drive time slot until it was canceled on January 20, 2009.

Career

The ''Stoney and Wojo'' show was a three-hour radio

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that included listener call-in segments, regular guests, and current affairs talk slanted towards the Detroit and

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sports fan. With Mike Stone and Wojnowski's playful repartee, the show had developed a definite comedic quality with Stone playing straight man to Wojo's more clownish comments. The heart of the show was sports and the breaking news of the Detroit sports market was paramount. Included were interviews, where the professional journalism strengths of both Stone and Wojnowski come to the fore. Occasionally, political news was featured, Governor

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has appeared several times, for example. Stoney and Wojo conducted an annual 28-hour radiothon in support of research for a cure of

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and

lymphoma Lymphoma is a group of blood and lymph tumors that develop from lymphocytes (a type of white blood cell). The name typically refers to just the cancerous versions rather than all such tumours. Signs and symptoms may include enlarged lymph node ...

. The event was started when Sabrina Black, WDFN update reporter, was diagnosed with lymphoma, and continued after her long battle with the disease lead to her death in 2006. It was typically held in a

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restaurant and includes many regular guest appearances including

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and

Joe Dumars Joe Dumars III ( ; born May 24, 1963) is an American professional basketball executive and former player who is the head of basketball operations for the New Orleans Pelicans. He could play either shooting guard or point guard on offense and was ...

, among many others. Stoney and Wojo filled in for

Jim Rome James Phillip Rome (born October 14, 1964) is an American sports radio host. His talk show, '' The Jim Rome Show'', is syndicated by Westwood One. Broadcasting from a studio near Los Angeles, California, Rome hosts ''The Jim Rome Show'' on r ...

on the North American syndicated ''

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'' on July 13, 2007. On January 20, 2009, due to cutbacks at Clear Channel, the ''Stoney and Wojo Show'' was discontinued on WDFN "The Fan" in Detroit. After making appearances on the Drew and Mike Show on

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, Wojo joined the evening drive-time show on WXYT-FM on January 23, 2012, accompanied by fellow WDFN alumnus and Fox 2 roundtable partner Jamie Samuelsen for "The Jamie and Wojo Show". On September 6, 2016, Samuelsen moved to mornings, joining Wojo's former co-host Stoney, and leaving Wojo to run the evening show solo. On June 8, 2017, Kyle "Bogey" Bogenschutz joined Wojo's show. In addition to his own show, Wojo has a weekly segment on ''Stoney and Jansen'' called "Wednesdays with Wojo", the title of which parodies the name of fellow Detroit sports columnist and radio personality

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's book ''

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''. Wojo has a running rivalry with fellow Ticket host Mike Valenti. As Valenti is a graduate of

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, the two play up the intrastate rivalry between MSU and Wojo's alma mater

. Wojo is a longtime active member of the Detroit Sports Media Association.

Wojodamus

Wojnowski also predicts final scores of big Detroit sporting events under the name "Wojodamus" (a play on

Nostradamus Michel de Nostredame (December 1503 – July 1566), usually Latinisation of names, Latinised as Nostradamus, was a French Astrology, astrologer, apothecary, physician, and reputed Oracle, seer, who is best known for his book ''Les Prophéti ...

). One of Wojodamus' first predictions was Arizona State's upset of the top ranked Nebraska Cornhuskers during the 1996 college football season. The loss ended Nebraska's 26 game winning streak. Wojodamus correctly predicted the

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' selection of

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in the

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and the

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' selection of Mike Williams in the

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. The Wojodamus legend grew as early as 1999 when he went into an on-air trance and predicted the No. 9 nationally ranked

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football team would lose to the unranked

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. On April 9, 2008, Wojodamus correctly predicted the 0–7

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would win their first game of the

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against the

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. The Tigers won the game 7–2. On November 17, 2012 – even before the matchups were announced – Wojodamus correctly predicted

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would beat Notre Dame 42–14 in the

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References

External links

* *Bob Wojnowski's latest ''Detroit News'' columns are availabl
online.
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