Sports radio

Syracuse’s Jim Boeheim says there’s a plan for retirement

March 3, 2022 GMT

SYRACUSE, N.Y. (AP) — Syracuse coach Jim Boeheim said Wednesday on a sports radio call-in show that there's a plan in place for when he steps down.

“There’s a plan," Boeheim told ESPN Radio in Syracuse.

Nilan says he was fired from radio job for refusing vaccine

February 4, 2022 GMT

MONTREAL (AP) — Former NHL enforcer Chris Nilan says he was fired from a Montreal sports radio station for refusing to get a COVID-19 vaccine.

In a letter posted to social media Thursday advising listeners of his departure from TSN 690, the 63-year-old Nilan said a request for an exemption was refused and he received a letter Tuesday signed by a Bell Media executive informing him his contract was being terminated.

Big-time agent Don Yee switched his path, made right choice

By ROB MAADDIJanuary 27, 2022 GMT

Long before he represented Tom Brady, Bryant Young, Sean Payton and Jimmy Garoppolo, Don Yee considered a career in journalism.

Changing course was the right choice. Yee became one of sports’ most influential agents.

Grobstein, Chicago reporter who got Elia’s rant, dies at 69

January 17, 2022 GMT

CHICAGO (AP) — Les Grobstein, a longtime Chicago sports radio reporter and talk show host who recorded Lee Elia's famous profanity-laced postgame rant about Cubs fans, has died.

He was 69. WSCR-AM reported Grobstein died Sunday at his home.

Potential McConnell rival cleared years after GOP complaint

October 27, 2021 GMT

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Two years after the Kentucky Republican party filed a complaint against a potential challenger to U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell, the Federal Election Commission has unanimously dropped it.

Cards’ Fitzgerald: ‘Don’t have the urge to play’ football

By DAVID BRANDTAugust 20, 2021 GMT

TEMPE, Ariz. (AP) — Arizona Cardinals 11-time Pro Bowl receiver Larry Fitzgerald says he currently doesn't have the desire to play an 18th NFL season, though he left the possibility open that he might resume his career.

Brady and Fitzgerald to do weekly SiriusXM Radio show

By BARRY WILNERAugust 2, 2021 GMT

Tom Brady and Larry Fitzgerald are branching out, even as training camps have opened and the 2021 season beckons.

The seven-time Super Bowl-winning quarterback and star wide receiver will host “Let's Go!” a weekly SiriusXM Radio show.

Travis, Sexton to team for radio show in Limbaugh’s old home

May 27, 2021 GMT

NEW YORK (AP) — The late Rush Limbaugh's radio syndicators said Thursday they will team personalities Clay Travis and Buck Sexton for a new show in Limbaugh's old time slot.

Premiere Radio Networks will offer their program on weekdays from noon to 3 p.m.

Ex-Iowa sports radio host sentenced to prison in fraud case

January 20, 2021 GMT

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A former Des Moines sports radio host was sentenced Wednesday to more than three years in federal prison for swindling at least eight people out of about $1...

Trump: Some men insulted that Biden vowed to name female VP

August 11, 2020 GMT

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump criticized his Democratic rival's vice presidential selection process, saying Tuesday that some men are “insulted” by Joe Biden's decision to promise to select a woman as his running mate...

Philadelphia’s decadent ‘Wing Bowl’ no more after 26 years

October 30, 2018 GMT

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Philadelphia's annual decadent display of binge eating and bad behavior known as Wing Bowl is over after 26 years.

The event hosted by a sports radio station the Friday before the Super Bowl drew thousands of rowdy fans to the Wells Fargo Center in the early morning hours to kick off Super Bowl weekend...

The Slice: A tale from the other end of I-90

Paul TurnerFebruary 23, 2017 GMT

Let’s hear from a GU hoops fan far from here.

“The Zags’ first run, in 1999, made me a very slight ‘celebrity’ in the sports radio scene in Boston,” wrote Bill Drury, who still lives back East.

Sad Cowboys fan Chris Christie hints at sports radio gig

January 16, 2017 GMT

By Staff

Following the Dallas Cowboys' last-second loss to the Green Bay Packers, Sportsradio 94.1 WIP host Glen Macnow shared a now-classic photo of two dejected fans: Cowboys owner Jerry Jones and New Jersey Gov.