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Why Mike Francesa's radio domination almost never happened
Mike Francesa was done. The interview was over. And the new sports radio station in town had turned him down. Cold. In early 1987, what we now know as WFAN...
Mike Francesa open to saving WFAN from Carton disaster
So you're saying there's a chance? In the wake of WFAN morning co-host Craig Carton's arrest and subsequent suspension last week, Mike Francesa, who is set to leave the station...
Longtime sports broadcasting great Bob Wolff dead at 96
Bob Wolff, who was behind the microphone for many of sports most iconic moments on radio and television, including Don Larsen’s perfect game in the 1956 World Series and the...
An in-depth look at Kenny Albert's crazy playoff schedule
And on the 13th day, Kenny Albert rested. Sort of. After doing play-by-play for 12 NHL playoff games over the previous 12 days in five different cities, his first day...
Cespedes' return was going to be delayed one way or other
Terry Collins made a promise Tuesday that if the Mets played their scheduled game in that evening’s awful weather, one of the writers covering the team would be in left...
John Andariese, beloved Knicks broadcaster, dead at 78
Words were hard to come by for Marv Albert on Monday night. A few hours earlier he had learned John Andariese, his longtime broadcast partner both on television and radio,...
Mets and FOX lead director Bill Webb dies of cancer at age 70
Bill Webb, whose pictures and images brought baseball into homes all over the country for decades as FOX’s lead director and who also directed Mets telecasts on SNY since that...
MSG legend John Andariese suffering from dementia
John Andariese, the beloved analyst who became synonymous with Knicks basketball both on television and radio across nearly 40 years in the booth, is suffering from advanced dementia, according to...
Kay, Breen and Papa: Meet the sports media icon who launched their careers
Inevitably, Sunday nights would find Mike McCarthy within earshot of his radio. This was back in the dark ages — though others might call it a more enlightened period —...
96-year-old sports broadcaster Bob Wolff's still got it
The pipes. Oh, those pipes. Even at the age of 96, Bob Wolff still has those pipes. A persistent cough had him sucking on a cough drop and sipping water...
Jayson Williams is just trying to survive this hell of his own making
When it came at all, sleep would come fitfully for Jayson Williams, and while he was waiting to drop off, that’s when the demons and everything that accompanied them would...
How Kathleen Mara earned the most Super Bowl rings in history
Neal Dahlen owns seven Super Bowl rings as an executive with the San Francisco 49ers and Denver Broncos. Bill Belichick has six, four as head coach of the New England...
Ralph Branca, Dodgers great and iconic homer victim, dead at 90
Ralph Branca, who threw what became one of the most famous pitches in baseball history when Bobby Thomson hit it for the most famous home run in baseball history and...
Meet the man who's been with the Nets for 50 years
As the Nets franchise began its 50th season Wednesday night in Boston, the team had dressed 446 players, employed 24 head coaches and 14 general managers, had six owners/ownership groups,...
Muhammad Ali dead at 74
Muhammad Ali, the colorful but polarizing three-time world heavyweight champion who risked his career and his freedom by his refusal to be inducted into the Army during the Vietnam War,...
Mike Tirico bolting ESPN for NBC in major booth shake-up
Mike Tirico, who has done just about everything for ESPN, both on television and radio, since he joined the network 25 years ago, reportedly is leaving when his contract expires...
Baseball's beloved Joe Garagiola dies at 90
Joe Garagiola, who beat boyhood friend Yogi Berra to the major leagues by four months but became better known as a broadcaster with long stints on NBC’s “Game of the...
Duke can exhale after battle of SAT scores got dramatic
PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Put that in your pipe and smoke it. In a battle of the upper crust staged in a building sponsored by a doughnut chain when a fine...
Miami dances past pesky Wichita St. into Sweet 16
PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Jimmy from The Bronx is going to the Sweet 16. Again. Ten years after he guided tiny George Mason to the Final Four and three years after...
John Bach, Fordham legend and ex-NBA coach, dead at 91
Longtime basketball coach John Bach, the all-time winningest coach in Fordham history and the architect of defenses that helped the Chicago Bulls win three consecutive NBA titles in the early...