newsday.com - 11/23/2008
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Mike Francesa initially set Sept. 5 as his goal to unveil a new-look afternoon show on WFAN, complete with other voices, if not an official "partner" to replace Chris Russo. What happened? "I'm still hunting and pecking and looking, and yes, yes, keep speculating, because I'm still looking, I ...
weblogs.newsday.com - 11/24/2008
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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 ...
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Mike Francesa, Chris Russo late to new media game
newsday.com - 11/23/2008
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newsday.com —
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 ...
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Francesa: Mostly fond memories of time with Dog -
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Francesa’s New Partner Should Be Chris Russo
Mike Silva's New York Baseball Digest —
... Neil Best continues to give us a “behind the scenes” look at the character that is Mike Francesa. Best spent 90 minutes talking to Francesa this week at his WFAN office. They revisited the “break up” and how everything transpired. ...
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... as he discusses the break-up he and Chris Russo, three months later. Neil follows up the column with a sidebar piece saying that Mike and WFAN have yet to find a partner for his show. And Neil ...
Wishful thinking re Mike and the Mad Dog
XM MLB Chat —
From Neil Best: "Speaking of dogs, what if the financial woes plaguing Sirius XM eventually free (Chris) Russo?
Might a reunion be possible? No one at WFAN would discuss that, but no one dismissed it as ludicrous, either."
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