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The Wolverine Podcast

Michigan basketball LEGEND John Beilein Joins The Show! Inside The Beilein Ball, Dusty May, more

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4.2529 Ratings

🗓️ 21 April 2026

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

In a special edition of The Wolverine Podcast, former Michigan men's basketball head coach John Beilein joins Chris Balas, Clayton Sayfie and Anthony Broome to discuss his Beilein Ball, memories of his time at U-M, Dusty May and much more.

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0:00.0

Welcome back to another edition of the Wolverine.com podcast.

0:03.0

My name is Chris Ballas with me Clayton Safie, Anthony Broom, and a special guest, John Bline, coach. We've been waiting to get you on for a long time. We saw you at the final four sitting in the front row. They put you on the big screen there, and that place came down. I thought that was really cool. And one of your players said to you in the text, he said, you are one tan S-O-B. And I'm thinking that

0:22.2

tan did not come from Potoskey, Michigan, right? You're doing pretty well. It did not. I'm a

0:28.2

fortunate enough to live in Naples, Florida right now. And I don't lay out in the sun at all.

0:32.7

I just, but I try to do, I got some some problems with my golf swing and my hips are a little sore,

0:40.3

so I get in the pool every day and do some, these exercises the PT guys told me to do.

0:46.1

So I get a little tan doing that, put my music on out there at 1230 or something in the pool.

0:52.5

It's pretty, I pitch myself. It's really neat.

0:56.1

Yeah. So you're not out there with one of those reflective things. No, no. I'm not, I'm not

0:59.8

tan. All right. What music do you listen to? I think everybody wants to. I got it all, but I like

1:05.6

country western. I somehow got onto that, you know, and then, but I got my old Motown things, and then I got the

1:14.2

rock from the, you know, 60s, 70s, 80s. So I got the whole gamut. I love music. I hear or up at our

1:23.7

place in Michigan, in northern Michigan.

1:29.0

I got music kind of a lot.

1:35.4

There's nothing better than just chilling and listening to some good oldies or some new stuff, too.

1:37.6

Yeah, when you go back up north?

1:40.3

Probably around June. We'll go to Ann Arbor and spend some time with my daughter, Shauna, and watch her three

1:45.9

children play a bunch of soccer and baseball games and then head up north for the summer.

1:51.5

Coach, I remember when your granddaughter was about this big and she was in the front row.

1:56.2

She had her dow and you were blown her kisses from the sideline before a big game.

2:00.1

Now she's what? she's got to be

2:01.3

like 13 yeah yeah she's freshman in high school it's unbelievable so yeah she was actually

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