Road Trip (2 of 20) March Madness Journey from LA to East Lansing

Today, we continue our Road Trip series with a special look at two teams who will be facing each other in the NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament, otherwise known as March Madness, on Thursday night. The UCLA Bruins will face the Michigan State Spartans at 9:20 New York time for a game in Tampa, Fla.

The two schools have rich basketball traditions. The Spartans won the 1979 NCAA championship thanks to Magic Johnson who became a legend for the Los Angeles Lakers.

As for UCLA, they have won more NCAA men's basketball titles than any other school as they 11 in their trophy cases. According to mentalfloss.com, UCLA is also the most popular university in the country as the school gets about 60,000 applications each year.

UCLA also has a strong women's gymnastics program, which has won several NCAA titles. One of our favorite college gymnasts of all time Yvonne Tousek was a member of a 'dream team' squad that won many titles some eight years today. But, today UCLA maintains a strong gymnastics team thanks to the likes of Tauny Frattone, a junior who was named specialist of the week by the Pac-10 recently.

The Spartans are also among the 18 schools with gymnastics teams. Tragedy ensued the team right before the season started as gymnast Kathryn Mahoney was paralyzed after a horrific fall on the vault. But, the team has continued on, as Spartans gymnast Jackie Berg scored a 9.8 on bars recently at a meet in Norman, Okl.

So, today, we are asking just how far apart these two schools are. Instead of focusing on the campuses themselves, we will explore the distance between Sofra Kebab Express, a Turkish restaurant on Venice Blvd. in Los Angeles and the studios of the award-winning WDBM college radio station for Michigan State.

If you happen to wish for a Korean pop song, you can listen to 'Asian Invasion' on WDBM and tell the host Elsie that we were the ones who told you about the station. Their request line is 517-884-8989. Of course, if they get mad at us, we will deflect all responsibility!

So is the distance between Los Angeles and East Lansing, Mich:

A) 32 hours even
B) 33 hours and 20 minutes
C) 33 hours and 40 minutes
D) 34 hours and 30 minutes

The answer to our last road trip between Spartanburg, SC, and New York was B) 11 hours and 49 minutes.

Silly Picture to Fill Space- Wolfman Jack

Today we feature the late dj Wolfman Jack in our summer jobs mini-series here on our regular Tuesday file "Silly Picture to Fill Space."

We will focus on the prospect that one may want to wish to become a summer dj at a local radio station.

In Akron, Ohio, not far from the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland, there are several radio stations ('course, for 'legal reasons,' we should point out that we have no idea if any of them are hiring), including WONE, 97.5-FM, a rock n roll station in Akron. Other radio stations in the area include WQNX-FM 94.9 Country in Medina and Cruisin' 101. FM (an oldies station) in Shelby.

As for the local minor league baseball team in Akron, our beloved Akron Aeros (well we don't actually live anywhere close to the Buckeye State--that's Ohio for those of you in Tashkent, Uzbekistan) lost to the Erie SeaWolves 4-2 last night. But, the two teams face each other again tonight in Akron. Perhaps, we can get home in time to watch the game....oh, right ESPN doesn't televise Eastern League games!