The Detroit News · Sep 6, 2019
West Bloomfield's Brad Zager has big plans for Fox's college football coverage
Brad Zager, middle, with Brady Quinn, left, and Urban Meyer on set.Brad Zager’s journey from West Bloomfield High to executive producer overseeing all live-event production for Fox Sports is unique and interesting and one most of his friends don’t want their kids hearing.
Zager, 41, bypassed college and began an internship at Prime Sports when he was 18 and had moved to Los Angeles to live with his mother after his parents divorced. This is a right-time-in-the-right-place story. Pure luck, really. His mom’s neighbor had worked there, made a few calls, and the teenager who grew up loving Michigan football and basketball and all Detroit sports was in.
But there was a small issue.
