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This is it. Mike Francesa is retiring again from his daily WFAN show, he announced on Thursday’s program. Francesa, 66, will do his final half-hour show on Friday. “I want to spend more time with my family,” Francesa said on the air Thursday. He said it wasn’t a retirement. It seems conceivable he could do …
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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. Any news on what’s happening with Trey Wingo after gone from morning show. There is nowhere else …
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You ask, we answer. The Post is fielding questions from readers about New York’s biggest pro sports teams and getting our beat writers & columnists to answer them in a series of regularly published mailbags. In today’s installment: sports media. After the latest ratings book, how long until WFAN moves Benigno out the door? Going …
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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 …
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Mike Francesa blasted Jamal Adams on Monday, saying the All-Pro safety who has publicly asked for a trade, isn’t a “great player” who makes “life miserable” for the Jets. The WFAN host thinks the team should either have Adams — who has been frustrated by a lack of extension talks — play out his rookie …
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These days you never know when you’re a goner. You never know if your career and deeds — good deeds, well-intended deeds and honest work — will be hijacked by fringe lunatics or the merely wishful to publicly paint you as what they want you to be, hope you are or read online that you …
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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. How much longer will the awful Francesa Radio.com experiment continue? Lots of tech issues where he’s not …
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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 …
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“Because I said so!” may have worked for our dads and for drill sergeants, but it’s terribly ineffective in medicine. As a practical matter, does the practical matter? So let’s say the MLB season — the MLB often so short on foresight — begins this season as per whatever format and schedule agreed upon, say …
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Mike Francesa is unamused by CC Sabathia’s stunning weight loss that has been the talk of Yankees fans. “Everyone getting crazy about Sabathia losing weight, alright Sabathia lost weight — it doesn’t mean he could pitch better,” the WFAN blowhard said on his daily show, lamenting that it doesn’t take much to make sports headlines …
This is it. Mike Francesa is retiring again from his daily WFAN show, he announced on Thursday’s program. Francesa, 66, will do his final half-hour show on Friday. “I want to spend more time with my family,” Francesa said on the air Thursday. He said it wasn’t a retirement. It seems conceivable he could do …
