Podcasts about Michigan, United States

The listening here is dominated by one men's basketball championship, relived from every angle. Michigan beat UConn 69-63 in April 2026, and several shows here carry a clip from it, from the team-side account of maize and blue confetti at Lucas Oil Stadium to Hail to the Dads! asking whether Dusty May is already Michigan's best basketball coach. Football is the sourer half of the Wolverine conversation, with a coach fired and a quarterback under scrutiny; Michigan State, the Tigers and the towns fill out the sports. Beyond sports the scene is smaller but statewide.

What Michigan is

Michigan is a Great Lakes state of about ten million people, two peninsulas joined by the Mackinac Bridge. Detroit is its largest city and the historic center of the American auto industry; Lansing is the capital. The Michigan–Michigan State rivalry runs through most of the sports listening here.

One championship, several rooms

MGoBlue Podcasts with Jon Jansen is the team-side account of the title: a second in program history, Dusty May saying Michigan won by solving problems rather than forcing a style, Terry Mills calling it "the ugliest big win we've ever seen". The UM Hoops Podcast, with Dylan Burkhardt and Eric Shapiro, is the analytical version: Elliott Cadeau as Final Four Most Outstanding Player, and a stat making this only the fourth champion since 1997 with a better defensive rating than offensive. Its titles follow the offseason, "Emergency Pod: Dusty May to the Mavericks" among them. Locked On Wolverines - Daily Podcast On Michigan Wolverines Football & Basketball supplies the rivalry edge: a regular-season sweep of Michigan State, the first in twelve years, and Tom Izzo's “I’m nobody’s damn little brother” after the loss.

Football after Sherrone Moore

Football is the larger beat and the grimmer one. UMGoBlue Michigan Wolverine Football Podcast sounds like two fans talking through a game they have already lived with; its clips are post-mortems: nine points against Ohio State, 18 second-half plays, no successful fourth-quarter play, a nine-and-three season one host says landed about where expected. A 2024 clip has Bryce Underwood's flip from LSU re-legitimizing Sherrone Moore; by 2026 a title reads "2026 Michigan Football - Spring Football - Emerging from the Rubble...". The Michigan Insider is the reporting room: Moore's firing, Kalen DeBoer as the top coaching target, and Underwood's quarterback coach explaining that he stayed to be the first Detroit kid to win a national championship at home. Michigan at The Voice of College Football is the loud end, billed in its titles as a live call-in show, its clips arguing that Underwood's projected value matters more than his freshman results.

Michigan State, the pros and the towns

Michigan State's side is quieter. Locked On Spartans - Daily Podcast On Michigan State Spartans Football & Basketball is worked-up: a season ending against UConn in which MSU held the opponent to 67 points, grabbed 13 offensive rebounds and still lost on eight second-chance points. Green Room - A Michigan State Spartans sports podcast by The Detroit News is the beat-writer version, and its clip catches Joey Hauser getting emotional as the crowd chants his name.

THE HUGE SHOW is statewide sports talk filed under the Detroit Tigers, with titles across Pistons, Tigers, Lions, MSU and U of M, and Andy Dirks on Kevin McGonigal, whom pitchers stopped throwing fastballs after a World Baseball Classic home run. WSJM Sports is the sports desk for Benton Harbor and St. Joseph, and its clips from "The Coaches - May 16, 2026" are high-school track, Declan Dorough clearing seven feet in the high jump on his first attempt. Central Michigan Life Podcasts covers CMU from the student side.

Music history at the table

The longest Michigan memory belongs to Michigan Music History Podcast -- MMHP989, leisurely interviews with people who played, recorded or collected the state's music. Ross Helco recalls the Lexingtons packing the Huron with a line around the back of the bowling alley while Bob Seger, who played there on weeknights, could not draw ten people, and the Sunday Funnies' mothers turning down an Ed Sullivan call so they could finish school. Chuck Bartels explains how "Sound and Fury" turned into a bass-driven rock album recorded at the McGuire Motel.

Roads, kids and the council chamber

Three shows carry Michigan's public business. Talking Michigan Transportation, MDOT's own show, has Sean McCann calling a Kalamazoo interchange a "win-win-win"; more than 128,000 winter-weather crashes on curved roads between 2018 and 2022; and Jeff Shaw on the Elmwood Township trails that removed road crossings between Traverse City and Cherry Bend Road. Its titles go on to historic flooding and why falling ice closes the Mackinac Bridge.

Speaking for Kids, the podcast from Michigan’s Children, is the hardest listening here. Its clips on the proposed Safe Spaces bill describe a family at a Washtenaw County gas station, a nine-year-old yelled at and pulled from her father, the father tased and pinned down; Senator Mary K. Kavanaugh argues that schools, hospitals, churches and shelters should be off limits without a judicial warrant. A clip on kinship care has Bianca arguing that Black families are more surveilled and that poverty gets mistaken for neglect.

MCTV Network's Government Affairs is Midland's city council and planning commission on the record: a police and fire pension 73.9% funded, barely above the state's enforcement threshold, and a rezoning at 1605 Bookness Street that would end a florist's non-conforming status.

Cold cases

UNSOLVED - A True Crime Podcast is Kristy Kramer's solo narration of Michigan cases. Her clip on "Episode 21 The Murder of Erik Cross" reconstructs a June 1983 party at a lake house a mile from his home before the autopsy detail that he was tied to a car, dragged and run over. Other clips reach skeletal remains uncovered on Horton Road in April 1998 near four-year-old Jessica Phelps's clothing, and a warehouse search tied to Arthur Ream and a probable gravesite.

Where to start

• For the championship: MGoBlue Podcasts with Jon Jansen for the team-side account, The UM Hoops Podcast for why the defense carried it.
• For football's reckoning: UMGoBlue Michigan Wolverine Football Podcast for the post-mortems, The Michigan Insider for the coaching search.
• Away from the stadium: Michigan Music History Podcast -- MMHP989 for Bob Seger at the bowling alley, Talking Michigan Transportation for the roads.
• For the state's harder subjects: Speaking for Kids, the podcast from Michigan’s Children and UNSOLVED - A True Crime Podcast.

The Michigan feed on this page plays clips from these shows.