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Sports fans have some options when scanning the dial for local sports talk on the radio.

They can tune to WFAY (1230 AM). The station's ESPN Radio network format is also broadcast on sister station WFBX (1450 AM) in Spring Lake. Along with the network fare, the stations carry the locally produced "Nick Sekkas Show" during the afternoon drive.

"We touch on everything local. Whatever is going down locally. We even touch on fishing," said David Ross, who is running the two stations under a management agreement between his own DR Media LLC and C.R.S. Radio Holdings.

The Sekkas show airs weekdays from 4:30 to 6 p.m. Sekkas, a former minor league baseball play-by-play announcer for the Washington Nationals and Baltimore Orioles farm systems, is program director for WFAY and WFBX.

Fayetteville Observer sports writers Earl Vaughan Jr., Eddie Southards, Dan Wiederer and Sammy Batten are regular guests on "The Nick Sekkas Show," providing insight into their respective sports beats.

Perhaps lost in the mix at times is "The Sports Blast" on WFNC. The Monday night call-in show, originally known as "The Press Box With Brett and the Bad Boy,'' was revamped and rebranded this year after the departure of Alan Smothers.

Brett Friedlander and Bill Priestley co-host the program, which places a heavy emphasis on local sports. The show celebrated its ninth anniversary in May.

"We wanted to take national events and localize them," Friedlander said. "There's no reason we should talk about who the long snapper for the Carolina Panthers will be. We stick to local stuff: the FireAntz, the Guard, high schools. We're heavy on the ACC."

Hal Nunn, who writes for the Raeford News-Journal, has joined Friedlander and Priestley behind the microphone. Friedlander calls Nunn's contribution "a little homespun perspective on things."

"The Sports Blast" can be heard from 6 to 8 p.m. Mondays on WFNC (640 AM).

In some parts of Fayetteville, Fort Bragg and the region, listeners can pick up 99.9 The Fan, an ESPN Radio affiliate WCMC-FM (99.9 FM). That Raleigh broadcaster, the flagship station of the National Hockey League's Carolina Hurricanes, is owned and operated by Capitol Broadcasting.

Ross said WCMC's signal in the Fayetteville market doesn't hurt the audience for his two sports stations.

"We're actually friends with those people up there," he said. "They continue to recognize themselves as a Raleigh station. We continue to recognize ourselves as a Fayetteville station."