Aug. 28, 2010

By Zak Gilbert
Athletic Media Relations

FORT COLLINS, Colo. – The Coors Light Steve Fairchild Coach’s Show will have a new host, a new venue and a new time when it premieres Wednesday, Nelligan Sports Marketing announced recently.

New Voice of the Rams Brian Roth will join the head coach of the Rams for the first of 12 weekly shows on Wednesday, live from Old Town Fort Collins’ newest restaurant, the Beach House Grill, 125 S. College Ave.

In 2010, the hour-long show begins 30 minutes earlier than last season, at 6:30 p.m. Shows are every Wednesday from Sept. 1-Nov. 17.

Fans are encouraged to attend the show and make up the live audience. The show features analysis from the just-completed contest and previews the week's upcoming game. Fans that aren't able to be part of the audience can still ask Fairchild questions. Producers answer phones during each show to put fans on live with the coach. The toll-free number is 1-866/702-7691. Fans also have the opportunity to e-mail questions at any time, by visiting the show's page on CSURams.com: http://csurams.cstv.com/sports/m-footbl/spec-rel/steve-fairchild-show.html.

KLZ, 560 AM in Denver, and KCOL, 600 AM in Fort Collins, air the shows live every week.

New station added to network: In addition to KLZ and KCOL, CSU football fans can listen to Rams games beginning this season on the Eastern Colorado plains, and into western Nebraska, on KSIR AM 1010 in Fort Morgan, Colo. What’s more, fans on the state’s Western Slope also can catch all the Rams action on KNZZ 1100 AM and KGLN 980 AM in Grand Junction and Glenwood Springs.

Waner joins network: Roth, the play-by-play announcer, and color analyst Kevin McGlue have a new partner on game broadcasts this season, sideline reporter Abby Waner.

Waner, who currently works with ESPN as a men’s and women’s college basketball analyst, also has interned for ESPN’s Baseball Tonight. She has previous experience working for ESPNU as a sideline reporter for football games, and was a basketball studio analyst for The Mtn.

Waner is arguably the best girl’s basketball player to come out of Colorado, having never lost a game at home and compiling a 62-game in-state winning streak, while winning three straight Class 5A state championships.  She was Gatorade and McDonald’s National Player of the Year her senior year, while also earning national high school athlete of the year for girls’ basketball (National High School Coaches Association).

Waner continued a successful playing career at Duke, where she won a national championship as a freshman, earned All-America honors, and was a first-team all-ACC tournament selection three times.

She was selected with the 21st pick in the 2009 WNBA Draft by the New York Liberty.