weblogs.newsday.com - 11/24/2008
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In my Sunday newspaper column , Mike Francesa references the pleasant time he had hanging out with Chris Russo at a fundraising dinner Nov. 7.
Click below for much, much more on that topic from my conversation with Francesa last week.
It includes his take on why he has no qualms about ...
Mike Francesa, Chris Russo late to new media game
weblogs.newsday.com 11/24/2008 — Mike Francesa is under contract with WFAN through 2013, which also is when the simulcast renewal with YES expires.
Will Francesa continue after that, or hang 'em up?
Click below for his thoughts on that, as well as his admission that he and ...
Mike Francesa does not want to do a one-man show
weblogs.newsday.com 11/24/2008 — Now that Mike Francesa has had his say looking back at his breakup with Chris Russo, the big remaining question is when he will get around to naming a new sidekick, and who it will be.
Click below for his thoughts on why he still is committed to ...
Mike Francesa didn't hold Letterman against Russo
weblogs.newsday.com 11/24/2008 — Among the many theories posed in the spring and summer about the tension between Mike Francesa and Chris Russo was that Francesa was mad at Russo for not coming to his defense during Russo's visits to David Letterman's late-night TV show.
Francesa ...
Chris Russo liked Devils games more than Francesa
weblogs.newsday.com 11/24/2008 — One of the biggest sources of tension between Mike Francesa and Chris Russo was "remote" broadcasts, with Russo favoring them much more often than Francesa.
Francesa admitted in my Sunday newspaper column that he often was in the wrong in turning ...
Mike Francesa says he 'can be a pain in the neck'
weblogs.newsday.com 11/24/2008 — Mike Francesa and Chris Russo consistently have taken the high road in public comments about one another since their breakup in August.
Both also seem happier and more relaxed on the air since the split, and Francesa in particular seems to be ...
Mike Francesa looks back and ahead after WFAN split
weblogs.newsday.com 11/23/2008 — My Sunday column and sidebar offer highlights of a 90-minute interview with Mike Francesa in which the big guy recalled the events leading to the breakup of "Mike and Mad Dog," his current relationship with former partner Chris Russo and the future ...
Francesa: Mostly fond memories of time with Dog -
newsday.com 11/23/2008 — Chris Russo, his partner for 19 years, is a river away in Manhattan at Sirius XM Satellite Radio , where he landed after the breakup of the sports talk pioneers "Mike and the Mad Dog." "Mad Dog" declined through a Sirius spokesman to comment for this ...
Pedroia Family Shrine
outincenterfield.com 11/22/2008 — I give. The Pedroia family's awesome is too much to be contained. Dustin's parents are cute as buttons, and now his older brother (Brett, 30) reveals that the family has a honest-to-goodness Dustin shrine in their tire shop in Woodland, CA.
They ...
Pedroia Wins MVP
redsox.travisliles.com 11/19/2008 — At this time two years ago, many in Boston doubted the abilities of Dustin Pedroia, the one man who's opinion mattered stuck by him then and again in the early parts of the 2007 when it appeared Pedroia was in over his head. By the end of that season ...
Mike Francesa still flying solo post-Russo
weblogs.newsday.com 11/10/2008 — After taking a week off, I suppose I ought to update you on the situation regarding Mike Francesa's search for a regular sidekick.
Umm . . . there isn't one, as far as I have been able to ascertain. Stay tuned, as they say in the journalism cliche ...
How a Short Second Baseman Won MVP —
Bleacher Report - MLB 11/21/2008
In recent memory, the players who have been able to call themselves MVP's have been power hitters, who probably didn't hit lead-off. Well that can't be said anymore, as Dustin Pedroia, the Boston Red Sox 25-year-old second baseman proved this ...
MVPipsqueaks —
Red Sox & MLB - BostonHerald.com 11/23/2008
The 5-foot-9 listing beside Dustin Pedroia's biographical mention in the Red Sox' media guide is laughable. He stands at least, unofficially, 2 inches shorter than...