• MLB’s return marked with poor play and deceptive commentary

    MLB’s return marked with poor play and deceptive commentary

    This has been a confusing summer. Even my flip-flops keep changing their mind. Clearly, what’s left of this baseball season is being played exclusively for TV revenue. When we last left, 10 months ago, The Game was in a badly diminished state, record-breaking home runs and record-breaking strikeouts, little baseball played in between. That condition …
  • Craig Carton could battle Michael Kay in complicated WFAN return scenario

    Craig Carton could battle Michael Kay in complicated WFAN return scenario

    It is easy to imagine a new afternoon sports radio ratings war pitting the current champ Michael Kay versus Craig Carton. It would be a worthy sequel to Kay-Mike Francesa. Entertaining verbal shots would surely be fired and, to borrow an old friend’s phrase, there would be no pea shooters. Upon Carton’s early release from …
  • Chris Russo talks Alex Rodriguez’s Mets dream, ideal partner after Mike Francesa

    Chris Russo talks Alex Rodriguez’s Mets dream, ideal partner after Mike Francesa

    Chris Russo, former WFAN Mike Francesa partner on “Mike & the Mad Dog,” launched his own SiriusXM channel in 2008, Mad Dog Sports Radio, where he hosts “Mad Dog Unleashed” from 3-6 p.m. on weekdays. He is never short on opinions, and gave Post columnist Steve Serby plenty of them in a Q&A. Q: Who …
  • Sports media mailbag: Steve Somers is the one WFAN legend who isn’t going anywhere

    Sports media mailbag: Steve Somers is the one WFAN legend who isn’t going anywhere

    You ask, we answer. The Post is fielding questions from readers about New York’s biggest pro sports teams and getting our beat writers to answer them in a series of regularly published mailbags. In today’s installment: sports media. Did Steve Somers turn down a buyout? — @Justlucky32181 Steve Somers was not presented with a buyout …
  • The Michael Kay-Mike Francesa tension may never end

    The Michael Kay-Mike Francesa tension may never end

    Even if handshakes are still a thing in the post-coronavirus era, Michael Kay won’t be extending one to Mike Francesa. Kay has overtaken Francesa in the ratings, but the New York sports radio rivalry remains fiery between the longtime afternoon drive voices of ESPN New York and WFAN, so much so that Kay said he …
  • How Fordham has produced a generation of sports media stars

    How Fordham has produced a generation of sports media stars

    Long before he was an electee to the Basketball Hall of Fame, Mike Breen was an intimidated 18-year-old freshman attending a workshop at Fordham’s renowned college radio station, WFUV, in the fall of 1979. Breen felt sheepish next to the juniors and seniors leading the seminar and contemplated delaying the start of his broadcasting training. …
  • Yankees’ Aaron Boone shuts down call for Aaron Judge position change

    Yankees’ Aaron Boone shuts down call for Aaron Judge position change

    Instead of being at Camden Yards where the Yankees were to face the Orioles on Opening Day on Thursday, Aaron Boone, seaking by phone, answered a weird question on “The Michael Kay Show”. Kay said listeners call the show and insist the Yankees have to move Aaron Judge from right field to first base to …