Montana sports talk with memory.
Nuanez Now keeps western Montana sports in the foreground, with a heavy lean toward Grizz and Cats football, recruiting battles, spring practices, and local athletes. It moves quickly, but the analysis has enough memory to connect a roster note to regional context.
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Nuanez Now is local sports radio with a long memory and a busy notebook. Its center of gravity is Montana, especially the Grizz, the Cats, prep stars, and the recruiting trail that runs between small towns, in-state programs, and bigger out-of-state offers. Football gets the deepest treatment. The show spends real time on spring-ball impressions, quarterback rooms, defensive-front depth, offensive-line technique, scheme changes, and whether a team looks fundamentally sharper than it did before. It does not treat recruiting as a list of names. A player’s size, speed, hometown, coach, family pull, campus visit, and latest offer all become part of the read. That makes the show useful for fans who care about the difference between a casual prospect mention and a real in-state battle. Interviews bring in another layer. Hashim Jones talks through growth, opportunity, and the speed of the college game. Tanner Huff describes a team handling a coaching change without flinching. Andre Patterson’s conversation reaches from the Bill Walsh Minority Program to Pete Carroll, New England, and an early NFL job. Those moments give the show more than scoreboard energy. It is also a record of Montana sports people explaining how they got where they are. The format still has the sound of radio. Sponsor breaks, resets, guest intros, and segment handoffs are common. Between them, the conversation can jump quickly from Big Sky football to NHL playoff matchups, the Colorado Avalanche, the Anaheim Ducks, Masters tickets, Augusta logistics, campus life, or English food. That looseness is part of the appeal. Nuanez Now is not polished national debate dropped into Montana; it is Montana sports talk that knows the fields, rosters, and old storylines behind the next game.
Made for: Built for Montana sports fans who follow the Grizz, the Cats, prep standouts, recruiting, and Big Sky storylines closely. It also suits listeners who like national sports arguments when they are filtered through a local radio room.
What sets it apart: Nuanez Now stands out by treating Montana sports as the main event, not a regional footnote. Its edge is the mix of granular roster knowledge, recruiting context, athlete interviews, and casual side roads into whatever else sports fans are arguing about that day.
Nuanez Now, formerly Tootell & Nuanez, is your chance to stay on top of all the latest city, state and regional sports news. 102.9 ESPN Missoula’s flagship show provides exposure and insight to teams and athletes in and around western Montana, from the preps to the pros, accentuating national ESPN content with stories specific to the state of Montana.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Coulter Nuanez connects Montana sports coverage to sharper questions about coaching, development, postseason access and competitive context.
Nuanez Now works at the level where Montana sports become specific: coaching decisions, player development, postseason access and the changing calendar from winter tournaments to spring competition.
Montana football gets film-room scrutiny while your bracket and Masters picks face a friendly cross-examination.
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A conversational Masters segment that makes Augusta's prices and logistics feel immediate without losing the back-and-forth energy.
Nuanez Now spends Hour 2 on Augusta and Masters logistics, and the segment keeps returning to the practical stuff: why Augusta is played in winter, cheap concessions, ticket lotteries, resale prices, and the expensive housing that springs up around the week.
A brisk playoff-hockey breakdown that stays practical and keeps the focus on the matchups.
Nuanez Now stays mostly on the hockey and does a clean job of it. It treats Colorado as the heavy favorite without making the Kings sound like filler, and the Anaheim note lands because the playoff drought gives the moment some real weight.
A grounded tennis interview that turns small adjustments into the real story.
The segment settles into a relaxed Montana sports radio groove, moving from the everyday business of getting settled to the sharper questions around life there, local friendliness, and the shift from Europe to college tennis.
A spring-football check-in on a team working through a coaching change.
Nuanez Now follows a spring-football conversation around a team adjusting to a coaching change, a new scheme, and several new faces on defense.
A grounded Bobcat spring-football update centered on the defensive reset.
Nuanez Now spends its time on Montana State spring football, with Bobby Daly back to run the defense after his stint at UTEP. It also keeps one eye on the hard part of spring: replacing four senior defensive linemen while sorting out how the roster lines up at corner and a few…
A blunt Grizzlies line talk that keeps coaching and fundamentals front and center.
This hour stays on the Grizzlies offensive line and the question of whether repeated work against an odd-looking practice defense has helped or hurt development.
A brisk, opinionated Masters pulse check with quick contender talk and a strong Gary Woodland comeback angle.
This segment moves like a quick Masters check-in, opening with the leaders and then widening out to the bigger names still hanging around. The pacing is the main draw.
A grounded Masters preview centered on course demands and Rory McIlroy.
This is a clean Masters preview that stays on the course rather than drifting into generic tournament talk. The details that matter are the ones that keep showing up: the second cut, pine straw, wind, gallery pressure, lightning fast greens, and the long walk that can wear a…
Big Cat and PFT Commenter cover the NFL, March Madness, and NHL for laughs.
Ryen Russillo runs weekly NFL and MLB recaps with beat reporters like Jeff Passan and Mike Sando.
HBCU sports talk with institutional memory.
The hour opens with sponsor reads, then moves into hockey.
Nuanez Now spends this hour on Augusta and the Masters.
This episode features multiple sponsor segments promoting local Montana businesses and community initiatives, including fiber internet, sporting goods, banking sportsmanship programs, and a local pharmacy.
This episode features multiple sponsor advertisements for Montana-based businesses including Blackfoot Communications, Bob Ward's Sports and Outdoors, Stockman Bank, and Palmer's Drug, focusing on their services and community involvement.
The hour centers on a conversational interview with a college tennis player settling into life and competition in Montana.
This episode features multiple sponsor advertisements for Montana-based businesses and organizations, including Blackfoot Communications, Bob Ward's Sports and Outdoors, Stockman Bank, and Palmer's Drug, with a focus on supporting local services and promoting high school sportsmanship.
The segment opens with sponsor reads and shifts into football.
The episode opens with sponsor ads and transitions into tournament season coverage for Montana sports.
The Grizz offensive line gets a hard look.
The worry is clustered roster churn: four senior defensive linemen gone, transfers to power-four programs, and live battles at defensive line, corner, and offensive line.
Masters talk takes over after the sponsor reset.
A sports talk show covering Montana high school and regional sports, with sponsor messages and tournament updates.
Lightning-fast greens are the headache, but they are not alone.
A sports talk show covering Montana sports news, with sponsor ads for local businesses.
Depth beats novelty here.
A sports radio show covering Montana sports news, including tournament updates and local sponsorships.
A sports talk show covering Montana sports news, with sponsor ads and tournament updates.
A sports talk show covering Montana sports news, including tournament season and local sponsors.
A sports radio show covering local and regional sports news in Montana, with sponsor messages and tournament updates.
A sports talk show covering Montana sports news, with sponsor messages from local businesses.
The episode opens with sponsor ads and transitions into tournament season coverage, focusing on Montana high school and local sports.
A sports talk show covering Montana sports news, including tournament updates and local sponsorships.
A sports radio show covering Montana sports news, including tournament season and local sporting goods deals.
Tournament time sets the hour in motion.
A sports talk show covering Montana sports news, including tournament updates and local team highlights, with sponsor messages.
This episode features local sports news and sponsor messages, focusing on tournament season and Montana athletics.
This episode features local sports news and sponsor messages, focusing on Montana high school tournaments and community sports.
A sports talk show covering local Montana sports news, including tournament updates and community sportsmanship.
This episode features local sports news and sponsor messages, focusing on Montana high school tournaments and community sports.
This episode features local sports news and advertisements for Montana businesses and services.
A sports talk show covering Montana sports news, with ads for local businesses.
This episode features multiple sponsor advertisements for Montana-based businesses supporting local sports and community initiatives.
The provided transcript contains only advertising reads from Coulter Nuanez, Simon McCann, and Palmer's Drug, with no program discussion from Nuanez Now March 25, 2026 - Hour 2.
This episode features multiple sponsor advertisements for Montana-based businesses including Blackfoot Communications, Bob Ward's Sports and Outdoors, Stockman Bank, and Palmer's Drug, with a focus on supporting local services and promoting sportsmanship in high school athletics.
Nuanez Now March 23, 2026 - Hour 2 - Spring Football is not available in the supplied transcript; the text contains only ad reads for Blackfoot Communications, Bob Ward's, Stockman Bank, and Palmer's Drug.
Tournament chalk mostly holds, though the board still has a few dents.
This episode features sports updates and sponsor messages focused on Montana athletics, including discussions about the Lady Griz and coach Brent Vigen, while promoting local businesses like Blackfoot Communications and Bob Ward's.
Trust the coach.
Montana State's coach wants mid-majors respected.