And in his first game, John Eddie Long – the local kid from Romulus High who spurned Big Ten programs to play for Dick Vitale at the University of Detroit and spent the first eight years of his ...

The commercial-free station has long championed Eddie’s career. “John completely rocks the house and will blow people away with his live performances,” Warren says.

Eddie, 27, whose given name is John Edward Cummings Jr., is a native of Richmond, Va., and was raised in Maple Shade, N.J. He left home at 15 and joined the Navy a few years later. He started his ...