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Keyshawn Johnson Impersonates Chris “Mad Dog” Russo on ESPN Radio, First Take Re-Airs It

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Keyshawn Johnson dipped into his bag of impressions for at least one session talking about the Yankees. There he impersonated Chris “Mad Dog” Russo during his ESPN Radio show Keyshawn, JWill, and Max.

That moment was captured on audio and video simulcast for everyone to enjoy, including Russo himself. The crew at First Take broke out the recent impression for Russo to hear for himself. And afterwards, Johnson received some praise.

“It was pretty good,” Russo said with a smile. “Quick, fast, topic-to-topic, not bad.”

“It wasn’t far off,” Stephen A. Smith said. “Doggie sounds a little like that.”

“It wasn’t far off at all,” Russo agreed.

The Volume Announces New Podcast With T-Bob Hebert and Aaron Murray

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Colin Cowherd has nabbed two big recruits for his team at The Volume. He announced a new podcast to his lineup on Twitter via a “announcement video”.

T-Bob Hebert and Aaron Murray are partnering for a daily podcast called Snaps with Aaron and T-Bob. Their first show aired on Monday on The Volume‘s YouTube channel.

T-Bob Hebert, former LSU offensive lineman and co-host of Off the Bench on 104.5 ESPN in Baton Rouge, tweeted his excitement about the news.

Aaron Murray, a former Georgia quarterback and analyst with CBS Sports and now with ESPN, retweeted the announcement as well.

John Kruk Takes a Timeout on NBC Sports Philadelphia To Save His Job

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John Kruk, a Philadelphia Phillies analyst for NBC Sports Philadelphia, got so bummed out after the Mets regained the lead on the Phillies in the ninth inning, that he almost risked his television career.

On Sunday, the Phillies led the Mets 8-7 going into the top of the ninth inning when Mark Canha and Brandon Nimmo hit home runs to pull ahead of Kruk’s Phillies. There was a lot of silence following the Nimmo homer run before Kruk finally spoke up.

Clearly frustrated, Kruk said, “I’d like to say something, but I’m afraid”.

That’s when Tom McCarthy, the team’s television play-by-play voice, gave Kruk some advice, “Give yourself five seconds”.

“Nah, I need more than that,” Kruk frustratingly replied. “I’m afraid that this would be my last broadcast. I really – so I’m gonna – just… all right, here we go,.”

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Dan Mandis: Nearly Joined Military, Tried Radio Instead

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Dan Mandis: Nearly Joined Military, Tried Radio Instead

SuperTalk 99.7 WTN morning host Dan Mandis shared a story of how his radio career nearly never got off the ground Monday morning.

During a discussion about what the morning show team would be doing if they weren’t in radio, Mandis said he wanted to join the military but delayed his plans.

“There was a time in my life where I was either going to go into the military or get into radio. And I got a DJ shift at the college radio station I just started working at and I decided that I would go ahead and try radio instead of going to the military,” Mandis said. “There were people who told ‘Mandis, you’ll never make it in radio. You’ve got this really high voice. You sound like Mickey Mouse’,” said Mandis as he imitated the Disney character. “‘Why don’t you get really good at production, Mandis? Because you really sound like this,” the impersonation concluded.

Ultimately, it seems as if Mandis got the last laugh.

“Alright, well those people are now unemployed.”

Bill O’Reilly: News Media ‘Rife With Incompetence and Corruption’

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Bill O’Reilly spent a portion of The O’Reilly Update Monday railing against what he calls the “journalistic dereliction” seen after the coverage of the FBI’s raid on former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home.

“No American industry is more troubled than journalism media. It is now rife with incompetence and corruption,” said O’Reilly. “A largely destructive force that has betrayed its obligation; to accurately inform Americans about events of importance. The federal raid on the President’s home is an example of journalistic dereliction. Here, we have the most important FBI action in history because of its high worldwide profile and constitutional obligation. You’ve got to follow the rules. Yet the reporting on the event has been shoddy, to say the least.”

After noting, in his estimation, there are only two outcomes to the story, O’Reilly questioned the validity of media reports on the story as questionable at best.

“If you read newspaper columns or watch TV news, you get a steady stream of ideological speculation. ‘Maybe this happened’. ‘Could be that’. ‘An anonymous source told me’. Garbage in, garbage out.

“No matter how preposterous all this ‘might’, ‘maybe’, ‘could have happened’ bilge is, the news agencies know most will forget about it when another inevitable story washes up on the beach. And in the end, it is the American people who are really getting robbed here. In the interest of true freedom, the founders wanted an honest, responsible press. They provided legal protections to ensure the flow of information without government interference. They understood that a free people must have honest information in order to select worthy leaders at the ballot box. But in today’s America, that founding wish has been eviscerated by corporations that control the information business. And there is no maybe about that.”

Alyssa Lang First Female Guest Host of The Paul Finebaum Show

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Alyssa Lang First Female Guest Host of The Paul Finebaum Show

Alyssa Lang will become the first female guest host of The Paul Finebaum Show on SEC Network Monday afternoon.

Lang also guest-hosted the radio-only show earlier this summer during the SEC Network Takeovers.

Lang, who joined SEC Network four years ago, serves as a sideline reporter for the network’s college football and basketball broadcasts, in addition to hosting Out of Pocket with Alyssa Lang and Thinking Out Loud.

It appears several other female sports figures will appear on Monday’s show, with Aria Gerson of The Tennessean and Crissy Froyd of Sports Illustrated both tweeting that they will be guests on Lang’s show.

Gregg Giannotti Texts Boomer Esiason During ‘The NFL Today’

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Gregg Giannotti Texts Boomer Esiason During ‘The NFL Today’

During Boomer & Gio on WFAN Monday, it was revealed the Gregg Giannotti used to periodically text co-host Boomer Esiason while he’s on the air during The NFL Today on CBS.

After Esiason said he would frequently text New York Mets television analyst Ron Darling during broadcasts, the former Pro Bowl quarterback said someone texting him during a broadcast was something he has experienced.

“It used to happen to me all the time, too, when I was doing games,” Esiason argued. “Even with the NFL Today, I’ll get text messages if Phil’s (Simms) not wearing the right outfit or something. Or my suit’s too tight. Whatever. And you’re texting me during The NFL Today.”

Giannotti then said he hasn’t sent his co-host a text message during his CBS pregame duties after an ill fated message.

“I try to but you didn’t like the one time I did. You came in on Monday and you were like ‘I really wish you would leave me alone’. You said this on the air. So I haven’t done it since that day. I did, though. Because I think its cool when you’re like ‘Ok. That guy’s on TV. I can get to him right now! How cool is this?!'”

“That happens a lot,” Boomer added.

Esiason later said he sends messages to Darling during the broadcasts because he wants to be involved because the Mets are having a good season filled with “buzz” while the Yankees currently lack that same “buzz”.

Chris Stirewalt Slams Fox News in Upcoming Book

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Chris Stirewalt Slams Fox News in Upcoming Book

A new book, Broken News: Why the Media Rage Machine Divides America and How to Fight Back, written by former Fox News political editor Chris Stirewalt reportedly tells the story of what really happened during his tenure with the network.

Sitrewalt was a fixture behind the scenes for the network’s Decision Desk, and pushed to be the first outlet to call the 2020 President race for Joe Biden, which he says led to his firing.

“I got canned after very vocal and very online viewers — including the then-president of the United States — became furious when our Decision Desk was the first to project that Joe Biden would win the former G.O.P. stronghold of Arizona in 2020,” Stirewalt wrote, according to an excerpt released by Jeremy W. Peters of The New York Times.

Fox News has insisted Stirewalt was laid off as a realignment inside the organization, an insinuation Stirewalt has rejected several times. He has since joined NewsNation as its political editor.

Stirewalt worked at Fox News for 11 years, and claimed since 2016 the network has pushed “black-helicopter-level paranoia and hatred” on an increasingly radical conservative population.

A Fox News Media spokesperson tells Barrett News Media “Chris Stirewalt’s endless attempts at regaining relevance know no bounds.”

Broken News: Why the Media Rage Machine Divides America and How to Fight Back is scheduled to be released on Tuesday, August 23rd.

Dan McNeil Launching Podcast With BetRivers

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Dan McNeil Launching Podcast With BetRivers

Longtime Chicago sports radio host Dan McNeil is launching a new podcast in conjunction with BetRivers.

The Danny Mac Podcast will be available each Monday and Thursday on most podcast platforms, and a video version will air on YouTube on the BetRivers Network channel.

“Joining BetRivers and hosting The Danny Mac Podcast is a great way for me to continue to do what I love and to engage with sports fans,” said McNeil.  “With football season starting soon this is a great opportunity for me to provide commentary and share my passion for sports with my fellow Chicagoans, as well as in other markets throughout the U.S. where BetRivers has sportsbooks.”

McNeil, who will be profiled by BSM’s Brian Noe Wednesday, was a host at Chicago sports stations ESPN 1000 and 670 The Score. He was fired from 670 The Score after comments he made regarding then-ESPN Reporter Maria Taylor’s wardrobe during an appearance on Monday Night Football.

I Don’t Like Urban Meyer, But I Get Why FOX Brought Him Back

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I Don’t Like Urban Meyer, But I Get Why FOX Brought Him Back

There is no debate to be had. Urban Meyer is the single worst coach in the history of the NFL. Not only was he bad at his job, he didn’t even make an effort to hide the fact that he didn’t care that he was bad at his job.

I know all of the names you are thinking of: Bobby Petrino, Dave Shula, Rod Rust, Rod Marinelli, Cam Cameron. None of them hold a candle to the utter incompetence Urban Meyer showed for the job while spending 2021 in Jacksonville.

Still, I am not surprised that FOX is turning back to Meyer to be the coaching expert on Big Noon Kickoff. Argue all you want that he has lost credibility with football fans, but do not pretend this is shocking.

The second it was clear there would be no season number two for him in Jacksonville, FOX properties went to work framing Meyer as the victim of a town and team that just didn’t understand football.

Brady Quinn threw a temper tantrum on FOX Sports Radio’s 2 Pros and a Cup of Joe last year when the media asked Meyer about the dysfunction in his locker room. After Jason Jenks and Mike Sando dropped their exhaustive behind-the-scenes look at the Jaguars’ 2021 season for The Athletic in March, Dan Dakich lobbed the softest of softballs at Meyer in an interview for the FOX-owned Outkick.com.

This is the pretend-to-be-a-victim playbook and FOX is an old pro at it. It doesn’t matter what reality is. Insist that cancel culture is to blame for your guy’s failure, be loud about it, and call anyone that disagrees woke.

It is the script for literally every segment of every show on FOX News. All the network brass needed to do was have an intern run a copy down the hall for FOX Sports to make it work.

Here’s the other reason you shouldn’t be surprised Urban Meyer is back on Big Noon Kickoff in 2022: he fits everything that show is trying to be.

What does FOX want people to see when they compare Big Noon Kickoff to ESPN’s College GameDay? The network wants viewers to notice that there is more football and less fluff. It wants them to notice that everyone on the dais was active in the sport more recently than their counterparts on ESPN, and it wants them to notice the unimpeachable credentials.

College GameDay has plenty of fluff, however you may define that. Is it the tearjerker video packages? Is it the over-the-top backslapping laughter? Whatever it is, you won’t find it on Big Noon Saturday.

Urban Meyer may be the perfect picture of that. He’s here to talk ball and only ball!

His return nearly doubles the number of championships (from 4 back up to 7) amongst the Big Noon cast. Add the Heisman Trophy that Tim Tebow won while playing for Meyer to the ones held by Matt Leinart and Reggie Bush, and it doesn’t matter how many more people are watching GameDay each week. There is a level of college football history on FOX’s set that ESPN just cannot match. That is how you make inroads.

On top of all of that, Urban Meyer is pretty good on TV. He wasn’t great in the broadcast booth for ESPN after leaving Florida, but in the studio, he has found his ideal role. He is good at explaining situations and plays to viewers.

Think of the timing of announcing his return too. FOX is in the middle of stunting on ESPN over the way the Big Ten media rights negotiations shook out. Beginning next football season, Big Ten football will be absent from ESPN for the first time in over 40 years.

Sure, Meyer has experience in the SEC, winning two national titles with Tim Tebow at the University of Florida. But don’t get it twisted. Most Florida fans can’t stand Urban Meyer. They think he is a phony that ran scared when Nick Saban turned Alabama into a juggernaut and the job got harder.

Urban Meyer is still a patron saint in Columbus, Ohio. He is the last Big Ten coach to win a national championship. Putting him back at the center of Big Noon Kickoff is a line in the sand. If college football is a battle between the SEC and the Big Ten, then FOX is letting the world know that it is proudly a Big Ten stronghold.

I am 100 percent out on Big Noon Kickoff because I cannot imagine being even 1 percent in on Urban Meyer. He has absolutely zero credibility to talk about coaching or leadership. But, I am just one guy. There may be others like me, but we aren’t who FOX is targeting.

It’s nice that Meyer is good on TV, but that is a secondary concern for the network. Re-hiring the guy is a branding move. It is red meat for the audience FOX wants.

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