Fort Lewis College Athletics

Skyhawks Live on the Radio

The Fort Lewis College Skyhawks can be heard live on KIUP 930 AM in Durango or on the World Wide Web at . Select games for football, men's and women's soccer and men's and women's basketball will be broadcast this season.

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Voices of the Skyhawks

Fort Lewis games will be broadcast on KIUP (930 AM), one of three stations in the Four Corners Broadcasting family. Other FCB stations include KIQX (101.3 FM) and KRSJ (100.5 FM).

The relationship between KIUP and the Skyhawks is among the longest-running athletic broadcasting committments in Colorado, spanning more than 60 years. KIUP first began covering Fort Lewis athletics in the middle 1940s.

Mike Riggs

January 2010 begins Mike Riggs’ 36 year in broadcasting.  Whether reporting from the Indianapolis 500, the Super Bowl, World Series, or doing play by play of little league baseball, high school or college sporting events, Mike has not missed an assignment since putting on the headphones for the first time in 1978 when he began broadcasting his old high school games in Alabama.

“Never did I imagine in 1974 would I end up broadcasting sports…I thought I was going to be a jock playing music…but since I did play sports from the time I was 6 through my senior year of high school, I was ask in the fall of 1978 to come to the press box and broadcast games.  Since that time I have been hooked”

After 7 years of broadcasting high school sports in Alabama, Mike moved on to become the first play by play football voice of Tennessee Weslyan College in Athens, Tennessee.  Several years later he got the call to move to Georgia and a long stint of doing more high school and college games but also reporting from venues across the ACC and SEC, NASCAR races and his favorite race the Indianapolis 500.  But it was an opportunity for Mike to get reacquainted with his two favorite teams, the Atlanta Braves and the Atlanta Falcons.  “I saw my very first Falcons game in 1966 and my first Braves game in 1969 and have been a fan since then”  During the next  12 years, Mike reported from 3 World Series and 2 Super Bowls, the Atlanta Olympic Games and interviewed many in the sports, entertainment and political world.

Next came stops in Texas then on to Durango where he has been doing mornings at Four Corners Broadcasting’s KRSJ 100.5 FM for the past five years along with play by play of Bayfield High football and basketball for three of those years and can be heard on sister FM station KIQX 101.3 FM.

The 2009-2010 Skyhawk Basketball season begins Mike’s tenure behind the mike.  “This is a great opportunity to bring FLC sports to the Skyhawk nation whether it is on AM 930 KIUP or radiodurango.com and even on home games on the B2 Network.  Dave Bray has done a wonderful job behind the mic, and I know that it will take listeners awhile to get accustomed at what I do because Dave had his style and I have my style of doing play by play.  Dave is a good friend and I wish him well.”

“Listeners are going to hear different things than has been done in the past and although I am getting my feet wet during basketball season, by the time football season comes, our listeners will hear a lot more during the broadcast than they were accustomed to in the past.  The broadcast are about the Skyhawks, the coaches, players, the College itself…I am just painting the picture and describing the action and being the eyes and ears of Skyhawk fans who cannot be at the game or may be in the stands and didn’t quite understand a call.”