Smizik on TV: Radio host adds fuel to his own fire

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Radio DoucheBaggery: Pittsburgh’s Mark Madden
Published 6 days ago by TheBigLead at The Big Lead
... We hardly familiar with any sports radio hosts outside of the guys on the New York dial, Dan Patrick, and Dan LeBatard. Watching Costas show segment last week about former Hot Dog vendor Mike North in Chicago made us squeamish; but to read today about this blowhard named Mark Madden in Pittsburgh is perhaps even worse. Having never listened to him, and only reading ...

EVEN MORE NEWS
Published 6 days ago by noreply@blogger.com (mondesishouse) at Mondesishouse.com
... --Papa Bad Golf gets his own Deadspin post. Yes, it was a proud day for the family. --The Big Lead has a lengthy post on Mark Madden that I'm guessing he'll dislike. The new Smizik article is prominently featured. --The quest for the World's Biggest Pirate Fan looks like a three-horse race right now. Still a few days to vote! --Pierogis N'At has a rather large collection of Penguin links. Contrary to rumors, they're not looking to sell this collection...you can read them for free. --Deadspin's Eastern Conference Preview ...

MARK MADDEN'S LETTER TO THE PG
Published 5 days ago by noreply@blogger.com (mondesishouse) at Mondesishouse.com
... In the time since that special ran, Bob Smizik did a follow-up piece for the PG and The Big Lead posted shortly thereafter, in a piece entitled, " ...

Mark Madden Puts Up A Better Fight Against The Post-Gazette Than He Did Versus Tank Abbott
Published 5 days ago by GC at Can't Stop The Bleeding
WEAE’s Mark Madden (above) has run afoul of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette’s Bob Smizik previously, but after the latter’s recent critique, we now have the benefit of Madden’s lengthy reply (link swiped from Mondesi’s House) : If, by some odd chance, you’re actually interested in injecting FACTS into Bob Smizik’s one-man crusade against the most successful sports talk show in Pittsburgh history - Hines Ward came on my show ALL THE TIME prior to me calling him out as the narcissistic phony he ...

Mark Madden’s feud with…everyone
Published 4 days ago by James Pete at The Steel Tradition
... known for his feuds with high-ranking sports’ personalities, had recently taken aim at Hines Ward. There was speculation, especially from Madden, that Ward was at the center of his dismissal. Ward recently appeared on Bob Costas’ HBO show Costas Now, and made comments about sports talk show hosts being negative. Ward made reference to Mark Madden’s show in particular, talking about not wanting to associate himself with that (negativity). The Post-Gazette’s Bob Smizek, embroiled in his own feud with Madden followed up with commentary ...