5 Star Zone with Rico Beard and Howard Griffith

Join Rico Beard from the Valenti Show and Howard Griffith as they break down all the hottest action in college sports every week.

College Basketball Season Comes To An End [FULL EPISODE] | 5 Star Zone with Rico Beard
Apr 8, 2025 – 45:58
Big Ten Teams Held Out Of Final Four [FULL EPISODE] | 5 Star Zone
Apr 2, 2025 – 35:33
Sweet Sixteen Preview [FULL EPISODE] | 5 Star Zone with Rico Beard
Mar 25, 2025 – 44:08
Big Ten NCAA Tournament Preview [FULL EPISODE] | 5 Star Zone with Rico Beard
Mar 19, 2025 – 41:22
NCAA Tournament Preview [FULL EPISODE] | 5 Star Zone with Rico Beard
Mar 17, 2025 – 39:23
Big Ten Champs, Traditions Interrupted And Season Awards [FULL EPISODE] | 5 Star Zone with Rico Beard
Mar 11, 2025 – 41:04
Big Ten Awards And Michigan vs MSU Preview [FULL EPISODE] | 5 Star Zone
Mar 7, 2025 – 37:30
Big Ten Basketball Season Coming To An End [FULL EPISODE] | 5 Star Zone with Rico Beard
Mar 4, 2025 – 39:38
Rock Fights And Buzzer Beaters [FULL EPISODE] | 5 Star Zone with Rico Beard
Feb 27, 2025 – 42:33
Big Ten Race Is Getting Tight And Michigan Vs Michigan State [FULL EPISODE] | Cash the Ticket
Feb 21, 2025 – 36:12
Michigan Sits Alone On Top Of The Big Ten Standings [FULL EPISODE] | 5 Star Zone with Rico Beard
Feb 12, 2025 – 36:34
A New Leader Atop Of Big Ten Hoops [FULL EPISODE] | 5 Star Zone with Rico Beard
Feb 5, 2025 – 34:24
National Championship Preview And Big 10 Hoops [FULL EPISODE] | 5 Star Zone with Rico Beard
Jan 16, 2025 – 33:14
College Football Playoffs Semi Finals Previews [FULL EPISODE] | 5 Star Zone with Rico Beard
Jan 7, 2025 – 35:46
Big 10 College Football Playoff Preview [FULL EPISODE] | 5 Star Zone with Rico Beard
Dec 19, 2024 – 39:14
Michigan Upsets Ohio State | Week 14 Recap [FULL EPISODE] | 5 Star Zone with Rico Beard
Dec 2, 2024 – 32:24
Big 10 Week 14 Preview [FULL EPISODE] | 5 Star Zone with Rico Beard
Nov 26, 2024 – 31:33
Big 10 Week 13 Recap [FULL EPISODE] | Five Star Zone with Rico Beard
Nov 25, 2024 – 18:17
Big 10 Week 13 Preview [FULL EPISODE] | 5 Star Zone with Rico Beard
Nov 21, 2024 – 32:28
Michigan State Football Isn't Fun To Watch [FULL EPISODE] | Five Star Zone with Rico Beard
Nov 18, 2024 – 22:35
Becoming Bowl Eligible - Week 12 Preview [FULL EPISODE] | 5 Star Zone with Rico Beard
Nov 14, 2024 – 36:48
Standing on Business [FULL EPISODE] | 5 Star Zone with Rico Beard
Nov 12, 2024 – 15:29
Big 10 Week 11 Preview [FULL EPISODE] | 5 Star Zone with Rico Beard
Nov 8, 2024 – 35:43
Big Ten Week 10 Reactions [FULL EPISODE] | 5 Star Zone with Rico Beard
Nov 4, 2024 – 21:46
Big 10 Week 10 Preview [FULL EPISODE] | 5 Star Zone with Rico Beard
Oct 31, 2024 – 37:47
Michigan Keeps Paul Bunyan [FULL EPISODE] | 5 Star Zone with Rico Beard
Oct 28, 2024 – 20:27
Michigan vs Michigan State Preview [FULL EPISODE] | 5 Star Zone with Rico Beard
Oct 25, 2024 – 32:46
Michigan State Earns Homecoming Victory [FULL EPISODE] | 5 Star Zone with Rico Beard
Oct 22, 2024 – 18:11
More Questions Than Answers At Michigan [FULL EPISODE] | 5 Star Zone with Rico Beard
Oct 22, 2024 – 13:40
Big 10 Week 8 Preview [FULL EPISODE] | 5 Star Zone with Rico Beard
Oct 15, 2024 – 43:31
A Top 5 Matchup And Coaching Hot Seats | Week 7 Preview [FULL EPISODE] | 5 Star Zone with Rico Beard
Oct 11, 2024 – 33:22
Oregon Dominates Michigan State [FULL EPISODE] | 5 Star Zone with Rico Beard
Oct 7, 2024 – 18:02
Michigan Falls To Washington, More Questions Than Answers [FULL EPISODE] | 5 Star Zone with Rico Beard
Oct 7, 2024 – 19:10
Michigan State vs Oregon Preview | 5 Star Zone with Rico Beard
Oct 4, 2024 – 11:42
Michigan vs Washington Preview | 5 Star Zone with Rico Beard
Oct 4, 2024 – 10:29
A New Rule For Onside Kicks | 5 Star Zone with Rico Beard
Oct 4, 2024 – 07:12
Week 6 Big 10 Preview [FULL EPISODE] | 5 Star Zone with Rico Beard
Oct 3, 2024 – 40:22
Week 5 Big 10 Recap [FULL EPISODE] | 5 Star Zone
Sep 30, 2024 – 16:30
Big 10 Contenders And Pretenders [FULL EPISODE] | 5 Star Zone with Rico Beard
Sep 27, 2024 – 20:41
Aidan Chiles Continues To Have Turnover Problems [FULL EPISODE] | 5 Star Zone with Rico Beard
Sep 23, 2024 – 20:47
Michigan Takes Care Of Business Vs USC | 5 Star Zone with Rico Beard
Sep 23, 2024 – 09:51
Michigan Names Alex Orji Their Starting QB [FULL EPISODE] | 5 Star Zone with Rico Beard
Sep 17, 2024 – 16:44
Michigan State Dominates Prairie View A&M [FULL EPISODE] | 5 Star Zone with Rico Beard
Sep 16, 2024 – 13:50
Free Square Weekend | Big 10 Week 3 Preview [FULL EPISODE] | 5 Star Zone with Rico Beard
Sep 13, 2024 – 18:02
Big 10 Week 2 Recap [FULL EPISODE] | 5 Star Zone with Rico Beard
Sep 10, 2024 – 25:24
Aidan Chiles Needs To Relax | 5 Star Zone with Rico Beard
Sep 10, 2024 – 03:22
Spartans Stepped Up In The Second Half | 5 Star Zone with Rico Beard
Sep 10, 2024 – 05:55
Michigan State Needs To Limit The Penalties | 5 Star Zone with Rico Beard
Sep 10, 2024 – 03:04
Michigan State Finds A Way To Win [FULL EPISODE] | 5 Star Zone with Rico Beard
Sep 9, 2024 – 20:10
Michigan vs Texas Preview | 5 Star Zone
Sep 6, 2024 – 05:16

Recent Reviews

GarthInEL

Great pod

Love the pod. Great content.
GoWings15

Too short half is commercials

Love Rico, he’s the man. But I can’t get behind a 20 minute podcast with roughly 6 minutes of ads.
thewhitewhale11

Weird format

Why is it split up into 3 minute segments? And why do ads just randomly come on right in the middle of when Rico is talking? Such a strange podcast.
jsjdbrcrhdbfvdnsjbf

Thumbs up

Love the pod love the msu deep dives keep it up Rocky lol
MDubs'76

🛎️

Great basketball and football insight from local Detroiter and Spartan RL Beard😂👊🏽🙌🏾
BevyMais

Good stuff

I Enjoy Rico‘s insights and behind-the-scenes information on the hot topics—-Especially Michigan State sports, U of Michigan, and the Detroit lions.
Colin Rich

Great podcast!

I enjoy this podcast! Great insight on the Big Ten, keep it going! Peace
Ryan121111

Great podcast

Rico is very knowledgeable and brings a sense of calm to this podcast and I really enjoy listening.
Rwtivo

Ad timing is awful

I like the podcast and Rico’s knowledge. I do however have 2 complaints. 1) fix the ad timing. Why is this the only podcast I listen to that gets interrupted with an ad in the middle of a conversation? This has been going on since the beginning. 2)I am subscribed and get the full episode and also the segments. Just give me the full episode.
mike in tecumseh

Ok if it’s a MSU podcast.

Rico spends most of his time either praising MSU or putting down UM. Total homer podcast. Would understand if it was Sparty Green Podcast, but I thought it was five star zone and about “the hottest action in college sports”
Gdub88

Great show

This is a really good show in regards to anything football and basketball in the big ten. Adding Howard Griffith really really set it off. Keep up the good work!
sjl3rd

Love the podcast, but…

Love the podcast! My only gripe is the Howard needs a new microphone! It sounds like he’s taking inside of a tin can. Its very distracting.
NDC22

Great Show

Love the show and Howard really took it to the next level
Evan Hursh

Rico is a Shill

Rico’s fanbrain is pathetic. Might as well have some message board poster host. Grow up and be an actual journalist.
D tamer

RL BEARD

Rico Lamar Beard has the BEST big ten podcast out there. Must listen for any big ten football/hoops fan
Stlocke

Best MSU Sports Pod

Knowledgeable and entertaining. Fantastic football and basketball coverage and honest analysis. I look forward to every episode. Go Green!
Da-Dubeman

Is this podcast a joke?

They spend half of the time previewing MSU and the other half of time complaining about Michigan/JJ McCarthy/Harbaugh etc. absolutely garbage show
Mr.Green-723

Good show (Apple ads a problem)

Solid, quality podcast. Annoying how Apple ads are randomly plugged into the middle of the show instead of being positioned at the start or specifically announced prior to playing partway through the show. They plug them in mid-sentence which is aggravating. Apple did this with another podcast and the host had to talk to them to fix the placement.
Gradybaker826

Money $$

Top five favorite podcast, tells you how it is with no sugar coating, loved listening to rico before he went big time, only bad thing is it’s one episode a week!
SpartyAl

Great show

Love Rico’s insight and the way he breaks down college sports.