DOB: 5-19-61
BIRTHPLACE: Osceola, NE
High School: Osceola HS (Class of '79)
College: BS in Communication Arts ('84) Wayne State College (NE)

Man, I can't believe you've dug this far into the 'Woody' page! Either you're incredibly bored or ... you've gotta be bored. Anyway, thanks for listening and showing this much interest in me and the Show!!

Okay, a little about me and my family. I'm 50 (heavy sigh), but happily married to my wife of 20 years, Ressa, have three great kids, Luke, (28); Leah (25); and Zach, (24); and a terrific canine companion, Jill, the Golden Retriever (10), and Berta, our sassy Welsh-Pembroke Corgi (4).  And Leah and Scott have given us our first grandchild (Reese), who's a year and a half - with another on the way!!

Ressa and I are empty-nesters.  I'm a complete a sports junkie, and am also a sportscaster, actually (although not here in Columbus -- at this time, at least). I've done the NBA (San Antonio Spurs); and NCAA Division I basketball; (Creighton University) and I-AA football (Texas State); as well as Pro Beach volleyball. To quench my sports 'fix' I play Fantasy everything ... baseball, football and basketball ... and watch everything.

I love to cook out, eat out, cook in and eat in (picking up on a 'theme' here?). Grilling is my specialty, ribeyes my favorite. 

Ressa & I love to laugh, and can frequently be found at the Funny Bone. We also see a lot of movies - with comedies and thrillers our favorites.  I love to travel -- Arizona and Hawaii, where my favorite brother-in-law lives, are our favorites ... although I travel back to see my mom and brother in Nebraska at least twice a year.  Oh, and yes, I'm a  huuuuuuuuuuuuuuge Huskers fan!! LOVE my Huskers (but also am truly a big Bucks fan)!

I also love to ride motorcycles.  I own an '08 Honda VTX 1800-F-2, and ride whenever I can.  Made that "Big Ride" - to Sturgis, S.D. in '07, and made it 900 miles from my hometown back to Dublin - in one day (15 1/2 hrs straight; five stops, all for gas). Ressa is starting to like it a little more, too, and I can see us spending more and more time on the road as the kids grow older.

And YES, I really did get my Lasik eye surgery at Bloomberg Eye Center (June of '08); bought two Mustangs from Germain Ford; got my HVAC system from Custom Air; have had roof work done by Tim Newman Roofing;  and Ressa is taking/losing weight with Medifast!  You'd be amazing how many of you ask me about that stuff!

Anyway, from the bottom of of my heart - THANKS FOR LISTENING, and visiting 'The Woody' page here at www.wcol.com.