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Dumb Question About Derek Jeter Drives Radio Host To Breaking Point
This is Bruce Drennan, a Cleveland sportscaster who hosts a call-in radio show called All Bets Are Off. During yesterday's show, a guy—a plant? an actual yokel?—called in and asked Drennan if he thought there was any chance that Derek Jeter might end up on the Indians. Much exasperation ensued, as ...

Which KNBR Employee Is Downloading Huge Amounts Of Porn At Work?
A tipster just sent us a picture of the above sign, which was recently posted in the KNBR sports radio studio in San Francisco. That's the same radio station that employs Damon Bruce, and is essentially the west coast's answer to WEEI. So, really, it's not all that surprising that such a warning nee...

Mike Missanelli Suspended, Explains Himself To Admitted Email Hacker
Mike Missanelli, the Philly sports radio host who got all homophobic in an email fight with a listener, has been suspended by 97.5 The Fanatic. Philly Mag columnist Larry Mendte has written a defense of Missanelli under the headline, "Mike Missanelli Responds: Deadspin is Journalistically Corrupt." ...

Sports Talk Radio: Art Rust Jr.
When I was a kid in the early 1980s, before WFAN, I listened to Art Rust Jr. talk sports on WABC radio. One day, must have been in 1981 or '82, I was home sick and I got to stay in my parents bed that afternoon. Nobody else was home. I listened to Art and was desperate to ask him a question, the mos...

Man Calls Sports Radio Show To Talk About Cats, Confuses Everyone
Something very strange happened early this morning on the sports radio airwaves, and we have been alerted to it by a very observant Deadspin reader. ...
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Hey, Stupid Sports Radio Guy, You Owe This Man $100 [Update]
Last year, some dumb sports radio guy in Denver named Darren McKee did a thing that only a dumb sports radio guy would do: he bet reader Charles $100 that the Ravens would make the playoffs this year. Now, with the Ravens' season having ended without a playoff berth, it appears that McKee is not a m...

What Exactly Is Happening In This Old Photo Of Mike And The Mad Dog?
This amazing photograph comes to us from reader Ryan, who says he found it in an old Giants program from the early '90s. Please bask in the glory of Mike Francesa's jacket, Mad Dog's shirt-tucked-into-the-jeans look, and the fact that it's impossible to tell which one of them is supposed to be the r...

Mike Francesa Cannot Work In This Filth
Via Awful Announcing, WFAN's sports talk radio creature from the black lagoon Mike Francesa decided to start yesterday's show with the one thing he knows his listeners care about most: how messy the previous show's hosts left his desk. It's a fun rant though, especially coming from a guy who knows...

The "Best" American Sports Shouting 2012: An Anthology Of People Screaming Into Microphones On TV And Radio
As the guest editor of this year's edition of the Best American Sports Writing anthology, American sports television host Michael Wilbon, a former columnist, seized the opportunity to hold forth on the sorry state of the craft. Here he is, for instance, discussing the book in a November interview:...

On Browns Call-In Show, Caller Asks Who Has The Biggest Penis; Hosts Break Down Giggling
Browns Red Zone airs Mondays on SportsTime Ohio. The hosts—Jim Donovan, Tony Grossi, and Doug Dieken, break down the previous day's game, and take calls from viewers who want to discuss the Browns. It's basically televised sports radio, and like radio, sometimes prank callers make it through the s...

Here's How Rick Reilly's Twitter "Jokes" Played At Open Mic Night
Boston radio guys Toucher & Rich had the best bit this morning. There's fury around the Deadspin office that we didn't think of it first. They sent phone screener/factotum Adolfo Gonzalez to a comedy club, armed with a series of actual jokes from Rick Reilly's Twitter feed....

Bay Area Sports Radio Legend Fired For No Apparent Reason
Imagine if Mike Francesa just walked into WFAN one morning for work, ready to start his regular shift, and management hauled him into an office, told him he was being fired, gave him 100 pages of paperwork, and said he had minutes—not hours—to clean out his desk and leave. Twenty minutes after that,...

Sports Radio Personality Sid Rosenberg Arrested For DUI After Cops Found Him In The Fetal Position Covered In His Own Vomit
Sid Rosenberg is (was?) a sports radio personality in Miami. You may remember him from his days as a sports sidekick on the Imus program, where he was no stranger to controversy—including his "quip" noting Venus and Serena Williams would be better off in National Geographic than Playboy. Real solid...

This Atlanta Sports Radio Guy Dares You To Call Him A Homer
Beau Bock was born and raised in the Bronx and played college football at Miami, but he's been a sports radio guy in Atlanta since 1973. We learned this about him (and quite a bit more) when we read through the even-tempered and very detailed 3,000-word partial autobiography on his website today....

Jay Mariotti's Redemption Tour Begins With Jason Whitlock's Podcast
Jason Whitlock debuted his new podcast on Fox Sports Radio today with a 45-minute sit-down with Jay Mariotti....

Is This Randy Moss Anonymously Bashing Jeff Fisher On Nashville Radio?
Someone named “Woody” called into Clay Travis’s show, blasting Jeff Fisher and hoping he’s done in Tennessee. Then someone else pointed out that it sounded an awful lot like malcontent receiver Randy Moss. Very interesting....

Radio Show Sends Random Listener To Bristol To Ask Trey Wingo About "Radio Raheem"
"Clemson Tom" got into the ESPN offices with zero credentials. He was recorded asking a gate attendant if Wingo, whom he described as a "wiry little fella," is in the building. Giggling excerpts from 1010 Sports after the jump....

Kornheiser-Armstrong Feud Forces Clear Channel To Ban Cycling Talk
America is a house divided thanks to Tony Kornheiser and Lance Armstrong's "car vs. bike" stand off, but thankfully radio executives have issued strict orders for everyone on their air to shut the hell up about it....

Radio Jockeys Make Horrible Jockeys
Two sports talk hosts racing each other on real thoroughbred horses seemed like a brilliant radio stunt, until one of them ended up in the ICU with bleeding on the brain. Oops. [Sun-Times]...