The Charlotte 49ers will try to win their first game in more than a calendar year tomorrow morning in the homecoming football game against the University of Memphis. The game has been moved up to an 11 AM kickoff due to expected inclement weather. The 49ers are 0-and-4 on the season and have lost 13 straight games overall.
Woody is a Charlotte native who came to WFAE from the world of NASCAR where he was host of NASCAR Today for MRN Radio as well as a pit reporter, turn announcer and host of the NASCAR Live pre race show for Cup Series races. Before that, he was a news anchor at WBT radio in Charlotte, a traffic reporter, editor of The Charlotte Observer’s University City Magazine, News/Sports Director at WEGO-AM in Concord and a Swiss Army knife in local cable television. His first job after graduating from Appalachian State University was news reporter at The Daily Independent in Kannapolis. Along the way he’s covered everything from murder trials and a national political convention to high school sports and minor league baseball.