ESPN's Patrick Dorsey reports that BLACK LABEL SOCIETY leader and former OZZY OSBOURNE guitarist, ZAKK WYLDE, will take to the satellite airwaves during a six-week run of his sports-themed radio show, Wylde On Sports, on SiriusXM.

On topics to be discussed on the show, Zakk states: "Everything. We'll talk about any topic that's coming up. Obviously, [during] football season, we'll be talking about the whole weekend, and [since] the show will be on Tuesday we'll be talking about Monday Night Football, we'll recap the whole weekend."

Wylde is a lifelong Yankees fan - and last year won ESPN's Baseball Tonight theme song competition (see below). Also, the godfather to one of Wylde's children? Mike Piazza.

But how does he keep up with sports, what with his often-intense tour schedule? It's not hard, according to Wylde. "All we've got to do is watch a little bit of ESPN or just check the news," he said. "Even when I'm overseas we always throw up the computer and... keep up with the news.

"The whole time the Stanley Cup was going on, the guys were watching it on TV, Slingbox, the whole time we were over in Europe."

(Photo - Zakk Wylde and brother-in-law Ken Thomson)

Not that he expects the show to feature full-on, straight sports talk. Or even close to it. Really he expects some spirited - to put it mildly banter between himself, co-host/longtime sports radio broadcaster/brother-in-law Ken Thomson and callers. Plus, he said, he can always phone people like Piazza, SLAYER's Kerry King or any number of his other friends to make this two-hour show - debuting September 4th on SiriusXM Fantasy Sports Radio - anything but boring.

"Between my wrestling buddies, my athlete buddies, my actor buddies or musician/rock star insane brothers over there," he said, "it's going to be a ton of comedy, I can tell you that right now.

"It's going to be 'Animal House' on sports, pretty much. The alcohol won't be there, but the stupidity will be flying at an all-time-high rate."

On October 1st, Cherry Lane Music will issue the new guitar tab book, Zakk Wylde Anthology, featuring 23 note-for-note transcriptions of Zakk's playing from his long career.

Featured songs include:

'Between Heaven And Hell'

'Bleed For Me'

'The Blessed Hellride'

'Bored To Tears'

'Concrete Jungle'

'Darkest Days' (unplugged version)

'Fire It Up'

'The First Noel'

'Funeral Bell'

'Hell Is High'

'I Don't Want To Change The World'

'In This River'

'Lords Of Destruction'

'Losin' Your Mind'

'Mama, I'm Coming Home'

'Miracle Man'

'No More Tears'

'Sold My Soul'

'Speedball'

'Stillborn'

'Stronger Than Death'

'Suicide Messiah'

'Superterrorizer'

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